Worst. Star Trek. Ever.

Your point of view is exactly whats being perfectly copied to the new location.

If you think identity is carried by DNA your identical twin wants a word with you.

An exact replica is an oxymoron. Its either exact, or its a replica. It can’t be both. A copy indistinguishable from an original is INDISTINGUISHABLE from the original.

Indistinguishable *literally* means you can’t distinguish it, by say saying that its a copy, not the original. Put them underneath walnut shells and…

People seem to think protons have individual identities. I hate to tell them that they turn over about 100% of theirs every seven years.

The amount of energy required to instantly reassemble a bodies worth of matter would resurrect you.

If I cut off your arms and reattach them, do you die?

I’m interested in understanding how being converted to energy and rebuilt *exactly* down to the quanta is worse than dying and being resuscitated - where quite literally you have changed and been damaged in the process.

How can you commit suicide if you’re still here afterwards? Either its not you, or you didn’t commit suicide. Q.E.D.

What is it that you think is somehow being lost? Your consciousness is discontinuous already - but to really make it obvious, we could put you under general anaesthesia and bring you back - we could…

An exact replica is not a replica - its the original. Or its not exact.

The quantum censorship / uncertainty principle tells you that in order to make an exact duplicate of *anything* the “original” has to be destroyed - ie., *moved* , otherwise it wouldn’t be an exact duplicate. In this light, teleportation is the same as walking. Particle in state A here, becomes particle in state A…

You are a near identical version of yourself. All the time. Any new ones you create would be too. In fact, all the non-identical versions of yourself feel almost exactly the same way about the consciousness thing.

Please keep posting this every time this conversation comes up. A lot of people have absolutely no idea *what*they are in the first place, where their consciousness originates, and think somehow each subatomic particle in them carries a tiny piece of their identity, and if they aren’t made of the same exact…

Moments separated in space are not simultaneous in all reference frames - so that ceases to exist thing *can’t* be true - every point in space would be ceasing to exist based on how it was being looked at, but communication with the proper past is kind of like trying to create a euclidian triangle where the angles add…

There is no fixed point on which to stand to judge the earth as moving or not - the earth is essentially in free fall around the sun - an inertial reference frame - the sun is orbiting the center of the galaxy, the galaxy is moving relative to other galaxies and the galactic supercluster is speeding away from…

Apple didn’t start ANY of those. The rounded corners thing, yeah.

I don’t, but that doesn’t make them any less of an idiot. And no, I am posting while on the toilet. This is all I have to do at the moment, George. What about you? Feeding trolls your thing?

“I dislike how constantly and consistently a new Souls game dominates all conversation for months after it comes out”

Yeah, well, she probably loved all the Destiny coverage that lasted for months and still hasn’t ended so TOO BAD. There are four whole Souls games that generated buzz for a couple months each. Cry me a…

No, his wife’s logic is sound; she really doesn’t want him paying any more attention to her, she just thinks he looks like a tool staring at his phone and is embarrassed to be seen with him.

Not true at all. When Apple rolls out the third or fourth generation of this, with a reasonable battery life, a thinner case (because that thing is ugly as hell) and the apps have actually figured out how to be useful for things, I might spring for one. What I’m not going to do is make up reasons about how having to…