• AGD4@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I meant they’d go insane with their presumed immortality.

      Did Moriarty want to be conscious for eternity?

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        1 month ago

        I don’t understand where insanity enters into it. Or immortality, unless you think their cube would last forever.

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          I said “Presumed immortality”. Meaning Moriarty presumed he would live forever. They did not know they were in a memory cube. They had no reason to believe they wouldn’t exist forever, as a hologram manifested into reality.

          Now if the concept of desiring death in the face of immortality is foreign to you, then I invite you to watch Season 2 Episode 18 of Star Trek Voyager: Death Wish

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            The concept of immortality is foreign to everyone because it’s a fictional concept.

            And as a fictional concept, you can certainly say that another fictional concept- holodeck characters in yet another fictional concept- a storage cube, wouldn’t go insane.

            So what you’re saying still makes no sense to me. You’re acting as if there are rules here.