Why does the far-right have such an issue understanding altruistic humanism?
It splits the soul like a horcrux?
The series doesn’t explain it well, but Star Trek transporters aren’t suicide-machine body-copying devices in the same sense that doing a brain backup and installation into a new cloned body would be. As I understand it, they’re just shifting you into a subspace energy field and back to solid matter on the target end. The same particles and electrical signals exist at beginning and end of the process, and some even remain conscious in the subspace transporter stream. See Lieutenant Barclay’s adventures in TNG ep. Realm of Fear.
I mean , she totally doesn’t… but that aside, Bill Gates and Elon Musk and a bunch of others DO invest quite heavily in companies doing the “immortality” work. I can fully believe that someone like Bill Gates or Elon Musk expects that the amount of money they have should be able to at least buy them immortality or whatever the best shot at that is now. Whether they get immortality or not is up in the air, but they’re certainly going to try for it and so if they’re trying for it I imagine they think they WILL be around in 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, 500… years.
I fully support a program of convincing Musk and other billionaires to undergo destructive uploading. It’s probably best if they do it soon so they don’t miss a golden opportunity, right? Normally you’d probably want to test out the procedure on a few hundred test subjects first but then you won’t be part of the race to be the first.
Believe Black Women and look for Presidential Demon Seed in the [looks up IoT uses] building’s lighting controller and thermostat, and SmartCar connection bits.
And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?
— Sister Miriam Godwinson , “We must Dissent” (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project “Bulk Matter Transmitter”)
Somewhere on the internet is a supercut of all of Riker’s “chair mounts”. It’s hilarious. I sincerely hope Frakes has seen it, and nearly died of the laughter.
