• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    There is no way to know that were not constantly dying and being replaced. The experience of continuity may be an illusion because you don’t notice that you’re only alive for a split second, and replacing the consciousness that was alive a split second before you.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      I say there’s no rational reason to assume you aren’t constantly “dying” and being replaced by next moment’s “you”.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      Okay? That’s all well and good, but there is a way to know that a transporter does kill you. Given a choice between maybe living or definitely dying, I’m gonna choose the former.