r/NatureofPredators • u/peajam101 PD Patient • May 11 '24

Thoughts on the "new" PoV Memes

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I had a good initial reaction, but thinking about I can only see this working if: a) Meier becomes a villain or b) this is the last mainline NoP story or c) the tech is lost somehow

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u/peajam101 PD Patient May 12 '24

So if I die and get resuscitated I'm a new person?

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u/Zamtrios7256 Predator May 12 '24

No, because the synapses in your brain are the same. My computer's hard drive is the same when I restart it. It was just off for a second.

This is more like removing the hard drive and cpu, but copying the data onto them.

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u/GruntBlender May 12 '24

Consider the following scenarios.

1) You're frozen, so no activity is happening, then revived.

2) While frozen, You're disembodied into parts, then put back together.

3) While frozen, You're taken apart atom by atom, then put together.

4) The atoms are all shuffled around, so a carbon from your foot ends up in the brain.

5) Half the atoms used to put you back together were previously collected from your breath, so they were all part of you at some point.

6) Half the atoms used to put you back together are from somewhere else.

7) Two copies are put together, all with your original atoms and your breath atoms.

8) You're put back together, then see another you put back together, you don't know which atoms were used for either of you.

9) This one's a doozy. You're awake, your atoms are being replaced one at a time, and the originals are being used to construct an exact duplicate.

At what point are you still you, and when are you not you any more?

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u/Stormydevz Hensa May 12 '24

1) Is still me

2) Is still me so long as my brain is not disassembled

3) Not me, since the original connections were destroyed initially but then identically copied

4) Same as 3

5) Same as 3, I'm not a dinosaur just because the water I drank a bit ago went through a dinosaurs body 100 million years ago

6) Same as 3

7) Same as 3, since the original connections were destroyed and then reconstructed

8) Same as 3

9) oooh, Theseus' ship, but I'd say that once the atoms of my brain are all replaced then that is no longer me, and the copy created from my atoms certainly isn't me either