eternity:time_travel_metaphysic
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| ===== Death While Travelling ===== | ===== Death While Travelling ===== | ||
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| - | (This section covers **what** happens when someone dies in the past. For the reasons why this happens, see [[minds and bodies]].) | ||
| If an creature with a mind (generally, an animal) would die while it is travelling back in time, several things happen: | If an creature with a mind (generally, an animal) would die while it is travelling back in time, several things happen: | ||
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| A couple of interesting consequences of this are that an Enhanced person (at the time of the Prometheus) will remember up to the moment of death, but their Opti will only record up to the point they are injured - as the Opti does not have a mind, and so its physical state reverts to the point of injury. | A couple of interesting consequences of this are that an Enhanced person (at the time of the Prometheus) will remember up to the moment of death, but their Opti will only record up to the point they are injured - as the Opti does not have a mind, and so its physical state reverts to the point of injury. | ||
| - | There is no good scientific explanation for this. While there are some signals in the Chronos machine which could be taken to indicate certain properties of the mind which would result in this, they do not actually provide much useful insight into the nature of the mind. The mind is fundamentally non-physical. | + | There is no good scientific explanation for this. While there are some signals in the Chronos machine which could be taken to indicate certain properties of the mind which would result in this, they do not actually provide much useful insight into the nature of the mind. |
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| + | ===Minds and Bodies=== | ||
| + | In the CHRONOS universe, minds are a fundamentally nonphysical thing. While a mind can interact with the physical world by controlling the body, it is not made of the same stuff as the body. During time travel, the mind is separated from the body and sent back in time. | ||
| + | This is largely a philosophical point rather than a scientific one, but does have some scientific and practical effects. Notably, true AI comes about because of the possibility of inserting a mind into a machine. AIs in the CHRONOS universe are minds residing in bodies made of code, rather than simply being created by giving sufficient depth to the coding. | ||
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