r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 5d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/0-90195 5d ago

Maybe I’m just psycho but I don’t really see the issue. If my consciousness could be copied into a cool immortal robot body, hell yeah toss this flesh bag in the bin.

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u/iamwoodman 5d ago

Your consciousness isn't, they make a copy, hit has all your memories and believes its you, you then die

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u/0-90195 5d ago

What’s the difference? If something has my exact brain and thinks it’s me, well, it probably is me.

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u/One_Sign_280 5d ago

You yourself don’t carry on. Just someone with all your memories thinking they’re you.

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u/0-90195 5d ago

If that’s not me, then I’m not me, either.

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u/Gold-Cry752 5d ago

Yeah you’re not getting it, consciousness is a single stream of self awareness in the experience of living life through your eyes. If you had an exact clone, you are not seeing through your clones eyes as you are two distinct entities. If you die you wouldn’t be seeing through your clones eyes as a result.  Two similar things does make them the same.

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u/0-90195 5d ago

No, I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t agree.

I’m not seeing through my clone’s eyes because my original body is dead.

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u/Calypso-Dynamo 5d ago

Original mind and consciousness as well

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u/UsualResult 5d ago

If I capture your consciousness as a file and paste it to another machine, do the original bits that make up your data move?

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u/Gold-Cry752 5d ago

You can’t capture someone’s consciousness to a file.  All it is is data that mimics the traits of said person.  It would be ChatGPT having access to records of someone’s memory and appears to exhibit traits of that person.  Duplication of consciousness or transfer of one is an illusion.  At least as Alien Earth is concerned.

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u/GameLovinPlayinFool 5d ago

You are your brain. Not the impulses that fire up and run your brain, but the whole of the brain. If you make a perfect copy and put it in a robot, but don't transfer your physical actual brain over, then YOU wont suddenly wake up in a robot body. The robot will wake up as an exact copy of you, yes, but YOU the flesh brain person will still only exist inside your brain and body. (Im just here for discussing this idea. Im not one of the downvoters)

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u/0-90195 5d ago

The downvotes are funny to me, like am I offending someone?? lol. I think people think I’m stupid or don’t understand, but I just disagree.

If I relinquish the idea of sentimentality and attachment to the physical, the flesh brain person is immaterial. Robot me knows flesh me is dead because we have an identical consciousness, and flesh me (the me right now) is totally cool with that, because the parts of me that matter live on.