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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Assuming that there is some metaphysical aspect to human consciousness is NOT the scientific conservative opinion.
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I don't think that's what he was saying, just that we don't know enough about consciousness yet to say how difficult Ghosting would be. IMO, that doesn't put it in the same level of impausibility as FTL, since we
do have some idea of the difficulty of accelerating past light speed (ie, infinitely hard) or bypassing it in some way (warping space with ludicrous energy levels, or using exotic negative-mass materials). Ghosting as presented in TS and similar fiction is pretty implausible, but the idea itself has merit.