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Really, what do they expect? Mental Healthcare is more or less nonexistent everywhere he goes.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not gonna lie. If transporters were real, I would have transporter psychosis just like Barkley. The thought of essentially seizing to exist and being put back together just sounds horrendous to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'm with Bones on this one. The transporter kills you. If we have any sense of soul, or anything beyond the patterns in our biological computer brain, then the transporter kills that, and a facsimile of you is reconstructed on the other end. So you as a physical being still exists, but the ghost in the shell is destroyed. The Federation in Star Trek is full of soulless copies, and the only real people left are the minorities like Bones and Barkley.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the soul is real, it just moves to the new body. Why would something that would presumably persist after death not?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would assume that at the moment it is severed from the body, it goes on to whatever the next plane of existence is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Where the guys up there immediately boot it back cause the body is still moving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The very first Star Trek novel dealt with the issue. Spock Must Die! by James Blish. I read it years ago and enjoyed it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you have a body's worth of leftover molecules, what's to stop him from just pressing ctrl+v again? Which one would then get the soul?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

"Ensign, the logs seem to indicate that after Dr Crusher returned from the planet, two additional materilizations happened with modifications. Do you know anything about this?"

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