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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6659757" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I think the complication isn't about you starting on Pad A and ending on Pad B looking at you still on Pad A for an extra second.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that you started on Pad A, look at a flash of light on Pad B and see yourself over there before you feel yourself being dismantled.</p><p></p><p>There are 2 of you at stake here.</p><p></p><p>For the soul part, my non-spiritual view on the matter is this. Each person is unique primarily because of the distinct formation of their neural network. That neural network has been forming since before they were born and continues to grow and adjust. The neural networks for 2 twins may be similar, but because those twins do not occupy the exact same coordinates in space, they see and experience the world from different perspectives and thus develop differences. Your soul is effectively the current state of that neural network. To copy you would require capturing that state (which in computer science terms, may be energy, not matter).</p><p></p><p>Thus, the moment there are two of you (one on Pad A and one on Pad B), there are two souls in existance, initially very similar but immediately diverging (like forks in realities). And the MorrusPort is about to kill one of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6659757, member: 8835"] I think the complication isn't about you starting on Pad A and ending on Pad B looking at you still on Pad A for an extra second. The problem is that you started on Pad A, look at a flash of light on Pad B and see yourself over there before you feel yourself being dismantled. There are 2 of you at stake here. For the soul part, my non-spiritual view on the matter is this. Each person is unique primarily because of the distinct formation of their neural network. That neural network has been forming since before they were born and continues to grow and adjust. The neural networks for 2 twins may be similar, but because those twins do not occupy the exact same coordinates in space, they see and experience the world from different perspectives and thus develop differences. Your soul is effectively the current state of that neural network. To copy you would require capturing that state (which in computer science terms, may be energy, not matter). Thus, the moment there are two of you (one on Pad A and one on Pad B), there are two souls in existance, initially very similar but immediately diverging (like forks in realities). And the MorrusPort is about to kill one of them. [/QUOTE]
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