Altina McAlterson
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Posted - 2012.10.26 15:12:00 -
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Ultra Boomer2 wrote:
in regard to if the clone would still be you, no. you have one life to live. while your brain and emotions and stuff can be transfered to your clone through scanning tech, your soul is already gone. you are not really there anymore. theoreticaly, your clone would just stand there, staring at anyone who walks in front of it.
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Altina McAlterson
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Posted - 2012.10.27 04:13:00 -
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A lot of the EVE fiction deals with these very issues. Really is interesting stuff. Even deals with the story of the mathematician that was able to prove Heisenberg wrong and enabled the use of entangled particles to instantly transfer data.
Anyway, about the clones. Remembering your death isn't really a big deal. If the suits are anything like a capsule when you chose to respawn a nuerotoxin is injected that brings an instant death (also, no real need to feel "pain", the suit is more than capable of indication direction of damage) so there's not really any traumatic memory there. Also, very few people have the mental capabilities to survive the process. In later times this natural ability was honed through strict training and mental discipline. The capsuleers of New Eden are an elite few. I'm assuming these clones in DUST went through a similar process, but looking at where they came from it was probably a little less Karate Kid and a little more Clockwork Orange, but I digress. Many people went insane during the process, some just died and some wetgraved. While a few survived to become these elite soldiers and later capsuleers.
As far as it not being you...yea, it's you. Regardless of what you personally believe everything that makes you "you" is stored in chemical form in your brain and transmitted through electrical impulses. Everything. Every last thing. If an exact copy of that data was able to be stored and transmitted the only way you'd know is when your surroundings changed, assuming an instantaneous transfer. There's no magical "you" that would get lost somehow, you're just chemicals and electricity.
Of course, a computer is just a series of yes/no gates and yet they can create the world we're killing each other in, so I don't mean to diminish the astounding wonder of consciousness. I'm merely pointing out there's no magic involved. The data can be copied and reproduced just as easily as 1's and 0's. What we don't understand is how to transcribe it in to what we would call "data".
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