What do I mean? Well, teleporters:
"Every room resets. Remember I told you that? Every room reverts to its original condition. Logically, the teleporter should do the same. Teleporter. Fancy word. Just like 3D printers, really, except they break down living matter and information, and transmit it. All you have to do is add energy. The room has reset, returned to its original condition when I arrived. That means there's a copy of me still in the hard drive. Me, exactly as I was, when I first got here, seven thousand years ago"...
..."How long can I keep doing this, Clara? Burning the old me, to make a new one?"
-snippet from the transcript of the best Doctor Who episode in existence
Now, something similar is going on with a particular civilization of my setting, enter the Angels:
Borderline immortal, even if you "kill" them, they'll likely just load one of their RAID 999 saves, get out of the nearest transmat and proceed to obliterate you. Obviously, this will invoke the Spaceship of Theseus. The solution:
"Your brain cells are constantly dying, do you feel yourself dying? The greatest illusion is that there is a self which is unique and cannot be replaced. Bollocks, the universe is not your wish-fulfilling fairy. There is no one to protect us, no God, no Richard Dawkins, no Soul. And you know what, I don't give a fiddle about it."
Let's see, how many groups agree, at least partially,with this idea:
- Christians X
- Fidesz X
- Buddhism ✓
- Kurzgesagt✓
- The terrorists X
- The atheists✓
- Everyone else X
- The universe: Request is still Pending...
How should I take this deep, philosophical concept and make the reader immediately accept it?
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