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5720211 No.5720211[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Help me solve an argument /sci/.

There's two of me, standing next to each other, one is a clone that will imprint a copy of my mind at the moment of death onto it's brain, the other is just me.

I take a gun and I shoot myself in the medulla oblongata, therefore killing myself and imprinting my mind into the other clone.

Do I:
A) Wake up in the other clone when my brain is splattered on the floor
B) I just die and the clone thinks it just died and transferred into the new body

Simple question, just A or B.

>> No.5720217

>>5720211

B

>> No.5720216

Feel free to suggest your own hypothesis if you disagree with A or B though.

>> No.5720219

>>5720211

B

But then again, A and B are the same.

>> No.5720221

>>5720219

they are the same if he dies.
But if he doesn't die, then you just have two people who think they are the same person.
for a while.

This was a STNG episode.

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5720226

>>5720221

>STNG

Which?

>> No.5720224

>>5720219
A assumes that the conciousness magically transfers from your dead body into the clone at the moment of death instead of actually dying.

>> No.5720230

>>5720226

The one where Riker tries to teleport, and the Teleporter makes a copy that stays on the planet.

>> No.5720240

Would there really be a difference?

>> No.5720252

Not funny.

>> No.5720261

OP, that's a pretty bad analogue to getting podded. The transfer is done literally as that part of the brain dies. Its an entirely separate question.

>> No.5720267

What a pointless shit thread. Why do you make such a retarded and childish non-science off-topic thread?

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5720275

>get butthurt on /vg/
>make loaded question thread on /sci/ to ease the asspain

>> No.5720277

>>5720267

Its vaguely science related, the nature of consciousness and all that.
Also its the result of a discussion over in /eog/ about the implications of getting podded.

>> No.5720284

We have 3 'consciousness' threads already. Go use those.

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5720285

>>5720211
B, because there is no "you" to transfer.

>> No.5720280

>>5720277
>Its vaguely science related

No, it fucking isn't. Dualism/spiritualism belongs on >>>/x/. Retarded childrens' fantasies belong on >>>/b/. There is absolutely no science involved in impossible fictional scenarios working on premises which are contradicting science.