That film may perhaps be the best animated movie of all time.

I was catatonic for about a week after watching this

Not as bad as regular people, like scientists and FBI agents, using the keyboard (and ONLY the keyboard) to do everything, like open emails, zoom into pictures, create entire simulations of the crime scene... basically like mice were never invented and keyboard shortcuts exist for EVERYTHING.

Oh I agree that it is moot. For all practical purposes you're you... Until there is a duplicate in a separate body. If we can say that that person is different from you, then on what basis can we say that you are you from the past? Given a long enough stretch of time, the differences between you and past you are so…

I suppose we disagree fundamentally. I agree that the mind is a process running on biological hardware. Where I disagree is that the process remains the same over time. Even your brain (i.e. the underlying hardware) changes over time, and this causes changes in your mind. Two separate instances of chrome.exe, for…

Survival? Life doesn't quite care if you're the you of a second ago. It cares that you can survive. And if that means that you believe you've been alive for 50 years instead of a picosecond, then that is exactly what will happen. Bear in mind that our sexual means of reproducing is nothing more than evolution's crude…

This only works if you think you're you regardless of changes to your underlying components. I suppose the question is "Are you defined based on the function your components implement, or are you defined based the summation of your components and the functions they implement?" I am of the opinion that it is a…

It's the classic Ship of Theseus problem. I personally think that you're not the same you as you were half a second ago, from a systems point of view. The only reason this has not been a problem for society up until now is because we've been too busy trying to survive, and because there are no multiple duplicates…

The Wan origin story was the only good thing about that season. I honestly hated the first season of LoK, mainly because of the lack of character development and the way they hand-waved Amon's abilities away, but after watching the second season the first seems like pure gold. At this point I only tune in for the…

I'm not quite sure why we're arguing madly over this. I discovered Doctor Who through Netflix, and haven't seen the Christmas special yet, but it is quite obvious the answer to every issue in this series, especially in the Tenant era and the bloody astronaut on the lake nonsense, is Handwavium, that wonderful element…

This is really late, and really long, but I wanted to put it up anyway.