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:: There's clearly something to it as well, if I may go on a tangent — one delving in complicated ethical problems about the nature of self, of course. [[Rassilon]] was brough 'back to life', back to a body, from his imprint in the [[Matrix]], and from then on no one questions that this is the “''real''” Rassilon, resurrected, not just a doppelgänger. Yet if the Afterlife works as it is described in the ''Ghosts'' audiostory this page draws from, does that means that the original Rassilon's "soul" had moved on the moment his original body had died? There are many other such issues lying in the corners of the DWU. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:01, August 12, 2018 (UTC) | :: There's clearly something to it as well, if I may go on a tangent — one delving in complicated ethical problems about the nature of self, of course. [[Rassilon]] was brough 'back to life', back to a body, from his imprint in the [[Matrix]], and from then on no one questions that this is the “''real''” Rassilon, resurrected, not just a doppelgänger. Yet if the Afterlife works as it is described in the ''Ghosts'' audiostory this page draws from, does that means that the original Rassilon's "soul" had moved on the moment his original body had died? There are many other such issues lying in the corners of the DWU. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:01, August 12, 2018 (UTC) | ||
::: Any '''explicit in-universe''' link from an artificial storage facility to the concept of afterlife is certainly a fair game for putting on the page. Such link is already present for Nethersphere. For other hard-drive based "afterlives", where it is missing, feel free to add it. | |||
::: On the other hand, in order to generalise these isolated links to one connection, an in-universe evidence would be required. "Possibly suggesting" is a qualifier for speculation. We need to hear it from the Doctor to put it on the page. | |||
::: It is little wonder that different stories contradict each other. That's the nature of DWU. We even have a proof that afterlife exists. [[Katarina]] visits one version of it in ''[[Katarina in the Underworld (short story)|Katarina in the Underworld]]''. Alas, this does not imply that afterlife is universally built according to the ancient Greek myths. It's just one of the versions. Similarly, each new Nethersphere proves nothing about afterlife in general, other than DW writers feeling freedom to choose their favourite version of afterlife for each story separately. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:24, August 12, 2018 (UTC) | |||