Mitchell_Porter comments on The I-Less Eye - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2010 07:30:36AM *  6 points [-]

I believe in continuity of substance, not similarity of pattern, as the basis of identity.

So Scotty killed Kirk and then created a zombie-Kirk back on the Enterprise? It would seem that the whole Star Trek is a fantasy story about a space faring necromancer who repeatedly kills his crew then uses his evil contraption to reanimate new beings out of base matter while rampaging through space seeking new and exotic beings to join his never ending orgy of death.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 29 March 2010 07:55:33AM 1 point [-]

So Scotty killed Kirk and then created a zombie-Kirk back on the Enterprise?

A copy, not a zombie.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2010 11:31:56AM 4 points [-]

It is a shame that the term was reserved for 'philosophical zombies'. I mean, philosophical zombies haven't even been killed. Kirk was killed then reanimated. That's real necromancy for you.