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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 5, 2015 at 7:34 am
The ST transporters have 3 levels of redundancy built into their buffers, so accidents are extremely rare, but I do believe there is the provision to retrieve your image from a secondary buffer if the main buffer detects an anomaly. So technically, yes, there are copies of you, but what's the big deal?
Even if this shit is real and your matter is recompiled elsewhere, do you think that protons and electrons used to recreate your matter at the other location are "special" in any way? We're all made of stardust. Like our dna, it's only the order of the sequence which makes us unique, not the composition of the dna itself.
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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 5, 2015 at 10:35 am
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So what the fuck man? If I'm cloned, then "I" can't experience both me and the new me, can I? And then I get killed! Something fell on my head.
Sure, the new me will think it is still carrying on the same experience from old me, but it isn't. I'm dead! And that fucker stole my life.
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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 5, 2015 at 11:32 am
Shades of
The Prestige there, Rob.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 6, 2015 at 7:19 am
Ron, being a perfect clone, what if you ARE the other copy?
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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 6, 2015 at 9:02 am
I, err...
What!? But I'm me! I can't be him. The other me. He's just "me".
I can tell the difference!
I suppose he would say the same thing. What a bastard.
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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 6, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Finally get to realise that dream that I was never flexible enough for before.
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RE: What the hell is a 'soul' anyway?
September 6, 2015 at 7:00 pm
(September 3, 2015 at 11:28 am)Pyrrho Wrote: (September 2, 2015 at 9:21 pm)Cecelia Wrote: It's something people use to make fun of gingers for 'not having one'. Or so my redhead friend tells me.
(September 3, 2015 at 2:04 am)robvalue Wrote: My wife, if she exists, is a redhead 
She enjoys the "We take your soul" jokes as long as they are in good humour!
Is this some British thing? I do not recall having ever before heard this idea that redheads do not have souls. It is a very strange (and silly) idea that having red hair would make a difference on this sort of thing.
Well, aren't most religious beliefs strange (and silly)?
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