Semantic Void - Left to Die (Parfit)

What if teletransportation kills the original person in the process? How does the created copy relate to that person? This song makes the copy on Mars reflect on the implications. "Left to Die" is the fourth song of the EP "Scattered." Unlike Parfit's fission cases, which "Scattered" is based on, this song delves into the moral implications of simple teletransportation cases. SECTIONS 00:52 Intro 01:10 Verse 1 01:35 Chorus 1 02:11 Verse 2 02:35 Chorus 2 03:24 Bridge 04:01 Chorus 3 Lyrics for "Left to Die" INTRO Red horizon, new air to breathe, but I feel a shadow beneath my skin. VERSE I wear his face, I speak his name, but the one who remained was burned in flame. They cheer my life as if it's the same, but I carry his death like a hidden shame. CHORUS The other me, left to die, I rise in light while he closed his eyes. The world believes, but I can't agree, I live at the cost of the other me. VERSE Every memory I call my own, is borrowed breath, a stolen tone. I walk on Mars with his design, but guilt is the ghost that makes me mine. CHORUS The other me, left to die, I rise in light while he closed his eyes. The world believes, but I can't agree, I live at the cost of the other me. BRIDGE Two cannot live, one had to fall. I wear his skin, but I’m not him at all. CHORUS The other me, left to die, I walk this world with his borrowed life. The mirror breaks, but they only see, an empty triumph, the other me. LINKS If you are interested in philosophy of mind and particularly in questions of personal identity or Derek 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. 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