[Dragaera] Teleport Shipping

[Jon Lincicum]

Philip Hart wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Jon%20Lincicum wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
>> To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:25:56 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Teleport Shipping
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>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Damien Sullivan wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:09:47PM -0800, Philip Hart wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Somewhere in the Piroiad we see Morrolan teleport and are told 
>>>>> that he's
>>>>> in two places at once (for several seconds [?!?]) and has to allow
>>>>> himself not to be in the original one to complete the action.
>>>>
>>>> How to become a god/demon!
>>>
>>> Very interesting point.
>>>
>>> Next one should teleport during a teleport and be in three places at 
>>> once.
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>> I have a minor semantic quibble with this. The description given of 
>> God/Demonhood is that the being can *manifest* in more than one 
>> location at once.
>>
>> While teleporting may involve *being*, briefly, in two places at 
>> once, this is still (by my definition, anyway) a single 
>> *manifestation* of that person.
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> I don't understand the distinction you're making, and anyway I don't 
> think we can have a discussion at this level of detail comparing a 
> process we don't understand and a state we can't comprehend beyond the 
> above, That's cool, wonder if there's a connection.

Well, in the one case, you have one being, capable of performing one set 
of actions, who is in a state of transit between two places, and in some 
sense exists in those two places at once.

In the other, you have two fully functioning and independent 
manifestations of the same being... capable of independent actions and 
activities from one another.

Essentially, gods can multi-task at an existential level.  At least, 
that's how I've always interpreted the idea. A person in the midst of a 
teleport doesn't appear to have this ability, from what we have seen. 
While he can in some sense be in two places at once, he cannot *be* in 
two places at once. If you get my meaning.

As I said, it is fundamentally a semantic quibble, as it depends on 
exactly what you mean by saying a being "manifests" somewhere.

Majikjon

"You can't *not be* on a boat."
"I've frequently not been on boats."
"No; what you've been is not on boats."