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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

And we are back with another Star Trek week episode here on Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

We're going to be talking about transporters and consciousness, but I do want to go ahead and get this out there.

We are not going to fully explain consciousness, nor are we going to

fully explain Star Trek transporters or teleportation in the Star Trek universe.

This is a big topic. Yes. Yes. So we're basically going to, yeah, we're going to chat about it.

We're going to discuss some interesting concepts. We're going to discuss some thought experiments tied into the whole thing. And we're going to, yeah, we're going to chat about it. We're going to discuss some interesting concepts.

We're going to discuss some thought experiments tied into the whole thing. And we're going to

reference some novel uses of teleportation on Star Trek, in Star Trek motion pictures and so

forth. But, you know, we're still trying to figure out how consciousness works and actually being able to teleport a living conscious being from point A to point B remains somewhat beyond our grasp and reach as modern humans.

I'll also go ahead and add the caveat here that we are not Star Trek experts or or Treksperts I guess

and as always invite additional insight and observations from all of our listeners many of whom

have seen far more Star Trek than both of us combined yeah we talked a bit about our

individual Star Trek viewing histories in the last episode which if you haven't heard the other one from earlier this week, go back and check that out too.

That's the one where we talked about the Salt Vampire featured in the first ever episode of Star Trek and some fascinating analogs in the real world in biology.

But yeah, as I mentioned in the last episode, I have always liked Star Trek.

I'm not like an anti-Trek person by any means, but I'm just way less exposed to Trek than people might assume.

You know, I've seen most of the original cast movies, a handful of episodes of the original series,

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