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Woland Special user 680 Posts 
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The annihilation of the individual personality, often with its merging with a Cosmic Consciousness, like a drop of water or a wave merging with the ocean, is a theme of some religious or spiritual traditions.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16149 Posts
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I can't recall what it was like.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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jugglestruck Inner circle Wales 1038 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 10:16, tommy wrote: My girlfriends point exactly. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1064 Posts
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How about a Star Trek scenario. The Transporter works (so far as I can tell) by reading all the relevant data about your body, annihilating you, then building an exact copy in the remote location, using local materials.
So what happens is that you are destroyed and a copy that thinks it's you is created. Would you really be willing to do this? John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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jugglestruck Inner circle Wales 1038 Posts
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Me? No!
I'll ask my girlfriend but I think she'll say you're just being silly! |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5715 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 10:37, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Yes, I would be willing. That'd be a cool way to go out (if I did). Beam me up, Scotty! 
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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How do I know I am not already a copy that thinks it is me?
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5715 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 11:52, Woland wrote: You never know. 
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 10:37, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: I got in a lot of trouble when I tried this with money.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts
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Actually though (and I'm about to get geeky for a minute) I believe that the Star Trek Technical Manual (not that I've ever read it... cough... cough...) says that the transporter actually breaks your component parts down into molecules or atoms or something and really does shoot them through space and reassemble them.
I, uh, beat up a nerd for this information. Yeah... that's the ticket... But that was back in high school so I could be remebering wrong.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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HerbLarry Special user Poof! 731 Posts
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You are correct about the disassembling of molecules, shooting molecules and reassembly of those molecules on the planets surface or wherever else.
You know why don't act naive.
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3010 Posts
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Life is an unwanted interruption of blissful nonexistence.
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27115 Posts
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By 1990 or so it was common hard scifi story that a tradeoff has to be made, or at least explored. A copy goes somewhere and subjectively experiences the here-now->there now while the non-copy is here-now. So what do you do with here-now? Integration by parts goes beyond the subjunctive when it comes to memories.
And what does she mean by experience of nothingness?
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3999 Posts
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The Star Trek Transporter would probably be a great way to cure disease, because don't germs get killed during transport?
Not that this has ANYTHING to do with the original question...
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27115 Posts
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Just a way of distracting from considering that you're arguing over 1960s scifi when there's been fifty years of progress considering the matters in easily accessible stories that pertain to this topic.
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edh Inner circle 4698 Posts
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Jon, have you ever been under anesthesia? That's experiencing nothingness.
Magic is a vanishing art.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1191 Posts
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I've been asleep before.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27115 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 21:06, edh wrote: how would I know? woke up after my one operation with a headache and feeling weak once but I don't recall anything about the time after I passed and the time I woke up - no experience is not the same as experiencing nothingness. That's more like the nowhere man scene after the vacuum thingie happens.
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 10:37, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Sounds more like The Prestige than Star Trek! |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3469 Posts
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On 2011-09-28 21:01, ClintonMagus wrote: Only the bad germs, I'd imagine. All of the good bacteria (for example, in one's digestive tract) undoubtedly survive intact. Pretty dang clever things, these transporters. |
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