Raygun Gothic is what I think I like best (sorry, r/Atompunk).  Set farther into the future, probably a century or two at least, or completely unspecified.  Should probably be set in (or at least include) a fictional location in space.  Probably has at least one person or entity that is outside of humanity (though not necessarily completely alien).  They also tend to be like gothic literature, and have some raygun firing, hence the name.  Examples:  Forbidden Planet, and the original Star Trek it inspired, probably also The Black Hole.  Maybe also stuff like that old Godzilla movie I vaguely recall with the UFO people, and The Day The Earth Stood Still, which aren't far future but definitely aren't Atompunk.

This is all just hypothetical, though. I don’t really know.

The concern about destructive copying equaling death comes up.  Similar to the transporters from Star Trek.  It gets a bit trippy trying to figure out how to feel about that.  On the one hand, if you just ignore the hidden destructive step, everything seems fine.  On the other hand, how do we talk about goals and motivations across that “gap”?  Do you care if a copy of you lives on after the original dies?  Why or why not?  Or do you only care if your current physical brain gets to live on?  Is a physical brain more important to itself than a nearly identical one, which has all the same goals and self-importance?

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This would go a long way in explaining my learning disabilities (of which the major thing is I have difficulty visualizing things in my head which makes graphical and abstract concepts in mathematics really hard) and forgetfulness, and it might even explain why I rarely remember my dreams.

Does anyone else share this condition with me? i.e. Finding it hard to visualize things in your head? I’d be curious to know how common it is.

Or like if you describe something to me, I’ll “know” what it’s supposed to look like, without actually “seeing” the image of it in my head.

Thanks for explaining how things are for you, a while ago I was wondering how that must work, and (after initially supposing those tasks you mention must be impossible for such a person) I figured it must be something like that.

Bill Smith apparently wants to scrap the whole Green Line Public Train plan that took so much work to figure out what people wanted and how to accomplish it.

Huh, these points might change my mind on this.  I have my own ideas, I’ll need to take the time to compare and think it all through…

What we can do when there is a conflict, or even before one happens.

A fan’s blade passes through the hot air rising above a flame in this iconic image by high-speed photography pioneer Harold Edgerton. This photo uses an optical technique known as schlieren photography that makes density differences in transparent media like air visible. Because of its lower density, the hot plume of air above the flame rises. When the fan blade swings past, it sheds a vortex off its tip and the rising air from the flame gets pulled into the vortex to make it visible. To the left, a ghostly counter-rotating vortex sits on the opposite side of the fan blade. (Photo credit: H. Edgerton and K. Vandiver)