Semantic Void - Echoes (Parfit)

What if teletransportation kills the original person in the process? How does the created copy relate to that person? This song makes the guilt-ridden copy on Mars reflect on what kind of person that makes him. This is the sixth and final song of the EP "Scattered. Unlike Parfit's fission cases, which the title song "Scattered" is based on, this song delves into the moral implications of simple teletransportation cases. SECTIONS 00:12 Intro 00:53 Verse 1 01:22 Pre-chorus 1 01:34 Chorus 1 02:22 Verse 2 02:52 Pre-chorus 2 03:03 Chorus 2 03:52 Bridge 04:08 Chorus 3 Lyrics for "Echoes" INTRO The chamber waits, a silver frame: a silent spark that calls my name. VERSE I step inside, my skin dissolves. The sum of parts, the whole absolves. Flesh to light, the beam ascends, but where am I when matter ends? PRE-CHORUS I hear the voice I used to send, an echo without end. CHORUS Carry me, scatter me, far through the flame, I vanish in silence, yet rise with my name. A thousand lights burn where one life bends, an echo without end. VERSE On Mars I wake, the same heartbeat, the same old words, the same old feet. But back on Earth, my body's gone. Did I survive or was I wrong? PRE-CHORUS I hear the voice I used to send, an echo without end. CHORUS Carry me, scatter me, far through the flame, I vanish in silence, yet rise with my name. A thousand lights burn where one life bends, an echo without end. BRIDGE Not one, not none, not lost, not true, but scattered lives that still are you. CHORUS Carry me, scatter me, far through the flame, I vanish in silence, yet rise with my name. A thousand lights burn where one life bends, an echo without end, an echo without end. LINKS If you are interested in philosophy of mind and particularly in questions of personal identity or Derik Parfit's discussion of the teletransportation paradox, check out this entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/id... However, as every good student knows, the best way to study philosophy is to go straight to the sources. A good starting point would be Derek Parfit's "Reasons and Persons" from 1984: https://academic.oup.com/book/12484 In the philosophy of mind, there is a whole cluster of teletransportation thought experiment, each designed to test particular intuitions about personal identity. One important question we may ask is: What makes it the case that the person I am tomorrow is the same person I am today. According to Parfit, there are no features about a person that makes it so. Rather, what matters is psychological connectedness, including memory, personality, etc. He calls this the relation R. The moral implications are discussed by philosophers as well, of course. But you can also see these in popular culture. For example, in the movie "The Prestige" from 2006, a magician uses a machine to create a clone of himself so that a clone of himself can appear elsewhere. The original magician is killed in the process. While he only teletransports from one room to the other and not to Mars, the moral issues involved are the same. It is interesting because it ties assumptions about personal identity to ethics. PURCHASE ▶ Amazon: https://amazon.com/music/player/album... STREAMING ▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5poeZt... ▶ YouTube Music: YouTube Music:    • Album - Scattered   SOCIAL MEDIA ▶ Facebook:   / semanticvoid   ▶ Instagram:   / semantic_void_music   SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE ▶ Subscribe    / @semanticvoid-music   if you're into analytic philosophy and/or rock and goth-metal mashups. DISCLAIMER All music, but not the lyrics, has been created with Suno. Subtitles and descriptions in languages other than English are based on machine translations. They may not always capture the intended meaning perfectly, but they should be sufficient to understand the gist of it. #gothic #rock #philosophy #personalidentity #thoughtexperiment