Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

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#18867

i pronounce the quizmaker dead

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#18868

Hm my mic is bad

#18869

in the first prompt you decided that whatever is you is the abstract idea of you, personality, traits, etc
you acted upon that in second
but you destroyed “you” in the third, by letting your personality get wiped

#18870

also for people who do believe in souls, they proceed to say “oh but your soul can die lol teehee! and then you can seperate your consciousness from it when you’re unfrozen!!” when to plenty of people the soul is what makes the consciousness exist

#18871

…i dont agree
but i think thats what it means

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#18872

the quizmaker had three win conitions

  1. pscyhlogical contiunity
  2. bodily conituintly
  3. soul contiunity

we didn’t compelte any of these
1 was broken by choosing your soul to stay alive, you weren’t pscuhlogically coniuned anymore
2. bodliy cnoituney was broken by the silcion thing
3. soul conituiy was broken by the teleporter

#18873

how did the teleporter restore our soul anyway if people didn’t know about it yet

#18874

this quiz is so fucking dumb

#18875

it didn;t
we lost our soul via teleporation

#18876

Arete was the only one who consented to the teleporter. We could have won. Fuck the clone

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#18877

arete threw tbh

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#18878
Innuendo

See now that’s an interesting moral debate

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#18879

i cannot emphasize enough the 30% thing for cryogenic freezing. so 70% of the time you pick that option you die anyway. damned if you do damned if you don’t

#18880

i think they said that we broke psychological continuity in the last one. we preserved it in the first two. we broke soul in the first one

#18881

Congratulations! You have survived!

You chose:
Round 1: I’ll take a chance with the spacecraft
Round 2: I’ll take the silicon, thanks
Round 3: Let my body die

However, although you have survived, at least one of your choices seems a little problematic.

There are basically three kinds of things that could be required for the continued existence of your self. One is bodily continuity, which may actually require only that parts of the body stay in existence (i.e., the brain). Another is psychological continuity, which requires the continuance of your consciousness - by which is meant your thoughts, ideas, memories, plans, beliefs, and so on. The third possibility is the continued existence of some kind of immaterial part of you, which might be called the soul. Of course, it may be the case that a combination of one or more types of these continuity is required for you to survive.

Your choices are just about consistent with the view that the continuity of the soul is essential for personal survival. Your first choice showed a desire to keep your physical body alive. Your second choice, in contrast, showed a willingness to have your body replaced by synthetic parts to preserve your psychological continuity. Your last choice showed a willingness to jettison your physical body and end psychological continuity in order to save your soul.

There is something troubling about these choices. First, the tracking of the soul seems a bit erratic. In the first choice, it followed the physical body, but on the second it followed psychological continuity. So it seems there is no reliable way of deciding where the soul goes - does it follow the body or psychological continuity? Secondly, the soul seems rather an empty self. It is a self that needs no thoughts, beliefs or memories to exist. It is rather a kind of immaterial home for thoughts, emotions, beliefs and so on. Do you really think the self is such a thing?

Note: The chart above shows the percentage of people who have surivived and died playing this game.

#18882

bodily continuity is absolutely not the only way to approach the silicon thing

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#18883

WE SURVIVED IF ARETE DIDN’T CHOOSE

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#18884

THIS FUCKER QUESTIONING HOW THE SOUL WORKS WHEN IT’S SOMETHING THEY FUCKING MADE UP

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#18885

Meow

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#18886

PHILIO BABY