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Discussion: Star Trek Transporters , souls and consciousness
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 79089637:MV80ODI0MDE4Xzg4MDI5MTEyXzQzN0JGRUYx] Remember when the transporter malfunctioned & made 2 will rikers? Did they both have a soul? Did neither have a soul? :1dunno1: - MC [/quote]
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Hi all,
Yes this has been discussed time and time again on these forums, as a thought experiment the use of Star Trek transporters in my mind proves that as humans we don’t really have genuine consciousness or what you would say truly sentient and proves we don't have a “soul”.
In the Star Trek world transporter technology works by a computer which scans your whole body down to the atomic level and state, It then dematerialises you (you cease to be), stores that pattern in a pattern buffer and then sends the data to the remote site in which somehow you are re-materialised presumably using energy from somewhere else.
A copy/facsimile, the me before i was dematerialised ceased to be and the new me thinks i am he.
Lots to discuss, when i think about this I often think about “am i the same person from the night before am I the same person I was 10 minutes ago? Is me 10 minutes ago now a dead version of who I am now? Only through the passage of time do we think we are sentient.... a truly sentient being would not need time for its thoughts to process from beginning to end .
This brings me onto the “ship of Theseus”
“In the metaphysics of identity, the ship of Theseus is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object”
Any how lots of random / tenuous rambling ..
Your thoughts😜
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