05-28-2009, 03:38 PM
Well, you are the sum total of energy you aquired during your life and put into your growth, development, and maintenance. This maintenance has to continue for you to be you. I think Jake was close to it when he said that there has to be some kind of continuity for you to exist.
A transporter doesn't end the existence of your matter and the functionality of that matter. It simply maintains it in the form of energy until it is reconsituted back into you. That's how Scotty was able to survive into TNG.
If your matter is destroyed in a manner in which your energy released in the destruction is dissipated, and that energy cannot be used to reconstitute you, you are gone. It doesn't matter how many times your energy has been replicated and transformed into alternate you's. The actual energy that made you up is gone, dissipated, and therefore you have lost continuity.
All those other you's are on their own trajectories.
So, if Slamz prime is destroyed, and the sum total of his energy is, at that point dissipated, he is gone. If, after that, you gather an equal quantity of energy from someplace else and are somehow able to use Slamz' transporter signature or something to reconstitute that seperate energy into Slamz 2, he's still a replicate and will never be Slamz prime.
He could replicate the trajectory that Slamz prime was going to take, do all the things that Slamz prime was going to do, but as far as the energy that used to be Slamz prime is concerned, he ain't Slamz prime. Nobody else would know the difference, but Slamz prime would be gone.
Wow, that's getting my nerd on, hardcore.
A transporter doesn't end the existence of your matter and the functionality of that matter. It simply maintains it in the form of energy until it is reconsituted back into you. That's how Scotty was able to survive into TNG.
If your matter is destroyed in a manner in which your energy released in the destruction is dissipated, and that energy cannot be used to reconstitute you, you are gone. It doesn't matter how many times your energy has been replicated and transformed into alternate you's. The actual energy that made you up is gone, dissipated, and therefore you have lost continuity.
All those other you's are on their own trajectories.
So, if Slamz prime is destroyed, and the sum total of his energy is, at that point dissipated, he is gone. If, after that, you gather an equal quantity of energy from someplace else and are somehow able to use Slamz' transporter signature or something to reconstitute that seperate energy into Slamz 2, he's still a replicate and will never be Slamz prime.
He could replicate the trajectory that Slamz prime was going to take, do all the things that Slamz prime was going to do, but as far as the energy that used to be Slamz prime is concerned, he ain't Slamz prime. Nobody else would know the difference, but Slamz prime would be gone.
Wow, that's getting my nerd on, hardcore.
Moristans: err
What the f*** Skelas - I know this is NSFW, but I coudn't watch this at work...
-Orsun
What the f*** Skelas - I know this is NSFW, but I coudn't watch this at work...
-Orsun