The impression that I got is that... beefcake just doesn't provide the level of depth she's used to. The Taylia bond provides her with a deep, emotional connection, and it's been going on for months. Even without going and getting brain surgery to make herself gay, it's more than enough to condition her preferences accordingly.
It sounds like she still recognizes it and appreciates it on some level, but as far as her priorities are concerned, Amelia is more important, more supportive and not just eye candy (actually, what's the latest on that one, is Taylor appreciative of Amelia's looks?). At least that's how I've read it.
It already did. Amelia turned it down, remember?
Probably quite low. They're not together for sex after all. They're together for each other, as they currently are, so I don't think it would work out without squiking the hell out of both of them.
Legend's Husband: Hey! Only I get up in that.
plz,i encourage it.there should be a Amelia playlist by now..everyone horn in and put music and make playlists,
To be fair, my suggestion was just a teensy bit tongue in cheek.
i figured,i was hoping you had my sister's (terrible) taste in music....
I doubt it, if only because Minerva thought Lily getting involved was a really really bad idea. Just avoiding the damage from the Sting isn't enough.
Taylia was literally the only thing I could think about when reading this.
Amelia didn't turn it down, she freaked out and broke the connection, probably because it reminded her of what she did to Victoria. They made up later, but Taylor died and was restored to a backup, with only a note from herself that the change was bad, not knowing that they'd made up within a matter of days.It already did. Amelia turned it down, remember?
A friend of mine pointed out a bunch of Tatu songs that fit.
you have a point,it's not true resurrection tech.
It's a matter of philosophy. I, personally, feel the mind and all it contains is more important than some silly concept of continuity of consciousness. If I have a clone of me that is exactly the same as me in all regards, then they are, effectively, me, whether or not this meat-puppet is still alive at the same time or not.
Uh... no he didn't.
Thanks. At that point, she'd been following him around for almost a hundred hours... it had become pretty predictable.
Also thanks. I was hoping that'd be noticed.
No.
I did my best.
This, pretty much. Zach's power doesn't counter powers with cross-dimensional effects. So he can use portals, Sting works on him at all, and Chevalier can "fold" him.
Sting doesn't work that way. Sting crosses all barriers and defenses and does more damage to matter than it rightly should.
Doesn't match up. They take over other people's lives. As in, those other people have no say in the matter whatsoever, as opposed to someone making a choice to have a clone made that would fulfill the rest of the points.
If the martian is actually identical to me, in mind and body, then sure, it's me. If not, then not. Drawing the line at interrupted consciousness seems ridiculous. Have you also died when you sleep?
Note that they don't blithely go, "Oh, it's okay, I'll just kill myself, and I'll be good in the morning."
That's true, but it doesn't matter because the whole concept of continuity of consciousness is an illusion anyway. Namely in that people lose consciousness ALL THE DAMN TIME; every time you fall asleep or get knocked out you are said to "lose consciousness" for a reason, and your brain goes through some pretty big changes when asleep. And then there are the arguments about what happens when you orgasm or even just get distracted, though I admit I'm not all up on the research there. Not that this knowledge makes this whole thing any less weird or scary. And you do have a point about how concurrent existence is a can of worms that we kind of want to avoid opening without A LOT of careful thought. It has been shown, however, that there's a really big subset of cases where that is much less scary than other things that we deal with on a regular basis.
Like that! Given how we choose to go to sleep on a regular basis that's mostly a matter of willfull ignorance, which just further goes to show how scary our basic existence remains.
Agreed.
I think you've identified an interesting edge case. It would be strange to say that he dies every time he teleports - from his perspective his perception is uninterrupted - but what happens to him is bad.
And I guess I know where Victoria could have gotten the idea. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon.
