• atro_city@fedia.io
    21·
    22 days ago

    I don’t get it. Does this imply that bodies can be taken over by other souls? Also, what happens if the body is not disintegrated? Does the soul fracture to inhabit the clone(s)?

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      My impression is that if your soul is not contained in a body for a long enough period, it becomes a target for a darker being or creature (like how a lion would hunt a zebra).

      I would also imagine if your body is not disintegrated, then your soul would remain in the original container, and the clone would be soulless.

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      11·
      22 days ago

      Different take. (Take them both.)

      Body will be taken over by malicious or desperate beings. Like demons or lesser evils. (Like the old movie where the killer is a soul that moves between bodies.)

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        4·
        21 days ago

        If they were ever going to make a spiritual sequel to the movie event horizon, this would be the topic I would hope it would address.

        Scientists succeed in inventing teleportation technology only to discover that the things beyond the light also would like to have bodies again.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    22 days ago

    It’s longer than you think.

    (I have a severe irrational fear of teleportation)

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    4·
    22 days ago

    after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

  • infinite_ass@leminal.space
    1·
    13 days ago

    One definition of “soul” is the attention. Your attention is your soul. Invisible. Crucial. Common.

    (And by “attention” I mean what you direct when you “pay attention”, what you concentrate when you concentrate and what gets jerked around when you are distracted)

    (Like, you ever played one of the multiplayer shooters? Let’s say that the player is the soul of the avatar. What does it look like when a player switches avatars? What does it look like when the player is away from keyboard?)