I always wondered why we can’t just take checkpoints of ourselves via the transporter, so if we die on an away mission NBD—we lose the information and experience of of the mission and that’s it. Could even have like a git repo of ourselves.
git checkout -b “college”
Graduate, then merge to main. Etc.
Yeah, that one episode with Pulaski growing old confirmed that transporters are immortality machines.
Sometimes you just have to ignore canon.
That’s like the backups on Altered Carbon.
This is basically how death and respawn are handled in pretty much every space sim I’ve ever played. You’re insured and if you die, the insurance company pops out a clone of you and charges you (it?) a premium. If we had the tech for it, I’m sure it would actually be a thing.
Unadvanced civilation: murders crew in cold blood. While they are cleaning up the mess, the same crew comes back with phasers ready.
The very last bit about going to bed being a break in consciousness… I dream. That’s how I know. Because the stream of consciousness doesn’t actually end when I sleep. It just goes on autopilot, unless I lucid dream.
Smoke some weed, no dreams
or just don’t dream (more likely don’t remember them) like me.
I understand the science behind this, but I routinely use weed just before bed and have the same amount of dreams (that I remember, at least) as when I take an extended break. From experience I don’t think the sleep/dream disruption is as heavy as they say.
