Editing The-star-trek-problem

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	| number    = 4290
	| date      = November 7, 2016
	| title     = the-star-trek-problem
	| image     = 1478530046-20161107.png
	| votey     = 1478530058-20161107after.png
	| titletext = I'm a doctor, not a nihilist!
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==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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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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==Votey Transcript==
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:Now to kill myself again, for the first time! :J'
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