Jun 2, 2026 · 55 min · 12 segments
We're now between seasons and our first bit of interseason content is the long awaited release of the side-cast interview we did over a year ago! You can find this lot on their twitch channels at the…
Ben NewbonHostEnfys PrankGuest
Erin BriocheGuestNicolas UdellGuestNo entities detected.
Is there any kinds of stories that you think would be really cool to see explored in this kind of setting? Oh, now that's a
Obviously, yeah, modifying your body can help you, but also if someone owns the modifications, that can now be used to control you, that sort of business.
I was thinking down the kind of shipathesis thing of, like, if you replace all your parts, are you still who you were? But yeah, that's also another thing of, like, who owns you?
I think the bit that always interests me, it's fairly similar actually, is the question of if you can clone a brain state, is there such thing as an original? And will the two separate...
brain states diverge and how quickly from each other so if you cloned a person and put that person's thoughts into the clone at that point are they actually going to grow to be different people and also who owns their past right you know all of the memories you have your family your upbringing and all that who gets to claim that do you both get to claim that what happens when that's in conflict you know
This is very much that Star Trek episode where William Riker, in the past, during an emergency on one of the ships that he was on, he had a beam out, except the beam got split.
The emergency situation on the ship meant that the ship thought, oh, if I don't restore him here, he's going to die.
but the receiving ship had also picked up that, oh, this is the pattern, I can build him like this.
because isn't that how the transporters worked, right? It destroyed you and remade you somewhere else.
Yeah, it basically copied your quote-unquote pattern and cloned you at the end.
Is there any kinds of stories that you think would be really cool to see explored in this kind of setting? Oh, now that's a
Obviously, yeah, modifying your body can help you, but also if someone owns the modifications, that can now be used to control you, that sort of business.
I was thinking down the kind of shipathesis thing of, like, if you replace all your parts, are you still who you were? But yeah, that's also another thing of, like, who owns you?
I think the bit that always interests me, it's fairly similar actually, is the question of if you can clone a brain state, is there such thing as an original? And will the two separate...
brain states diverge and how quickly from each other so if you cloned a person and put that person's thoughts into the clone at that point are they actually going to grow to be different people and also who owns their past right you know all of the memories you have your family your upbringing and all that who gets to claim that do you both get to claim that what happens when that's in conflict you know
This is very much that Star Trek episode where William Riker, in the past, during an emergency on one of the ships that he was on, he had a beam out, except the beam got split.
The emergency situation on the ship meant that the ship thought, oh, if I don't restore him here, he's going to die.
but the receiving ship had also picked up that, oh, this is the pattern, I can build him like this.
because isn't that how the transporters worked, right? It destroyed you and remade you somewhere else.
Yeah, it basically copied your quote-unquote pattern and cloned you at the end.
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