Timeline for Has any Star Trek material had a serious in-universe discussion about the philosophy of transporter technology?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:51 | vote | accept | Omegacron | ||
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:25 | comment | added | Mr Lister | @Beta How dare you! Doctor Who never merged people in a transmat! | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 12:36 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Beta It even merged their clothing designs ;p A pretty impressive orchid. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 4:04 | comment | added | Beta | The idea that a transporter could combine two people (of different species no less) into one person with a composite personality... That's soft science fiction even by Star Trek standards-- edging into Doctor Who territory. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 2:30 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica |
The swampman passes the Duck Test for Davidson.
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 23:38 | comment | added | dodgethesteamroller | See also the Hofstadter/Dennett-edited compilation of philosophy-of-mind articles The Mind's I for interesting further discussion of this topic. My own educated guess based on what I know of Gene Roddenberry is that TOS never addressed the question because he felt there wasn't one. As an avowed Secular Humanist he would have no doubt at all in the "bag of chemicals" explanation. The transporter moves your matter as energy, so it moves all of you; there's no soul to worry about. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 21:40 | history | answered | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |