The-star-trek-problem

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the-star-trek-problem

Title text: I'm a doctor, not a nihilist!

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In philosophy there's a concept sometimes called "the star trek problem."

There are a couple of ways to resolve it.

Maybe there's a soul that transfers between locations. Or, maybe persistent consciousness isn't a meaningful notion, so nothing is lost in

When the teleporter breaks you apart and reforms you on the planet's surface, doesnt that mean yyuu" are dead, and there's just some copy of you on the surface?

The teleportation.

The weird thing to me is that the people in star trek are humanists, so they probably don't believe in souls. And, they live in a post-scarcity society, so they don't do their jobs for money.

Which really makes you wonder what was up with the teleporter operators.

I've killed everyone I know hundreds of times! You're welcome, society!

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Now to kill myself again, for the first time! :J'

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