User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160617182824/@comment-24894325-20160623090833

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160617182824/@comment-24894325-20160623090833 UPD after relistening.

Transcript information to aid the naming (before the name is chosen, I will refer to it as the First Doctor Copy or FDC). If The Founding Fathers is the definitive source, then this transcript of it should be enough to make a decision.
 * The FDC is definitely in a jar and has an optical scoop. The jar is constantly bubbling (both as a FX and stated explicitly by the FDC). The FDC cannot leave the jar: once tried but was forced to return almost immediately.
 * The FDC is never referred to as the Doctor's consciousness. The word "consciousness" is used twice: the FDC itself says this consciousness and Steven says your consciousness. In other words, there is a contextual evidence that the FDC is a consciousness but it is never stated to be the consciousness of the First Doctor.
 * Several times the FDC is called a copy of the Doctor's mind, sometimes with the emphasis that the copy is crude or imperfect. Both Steven and the FDC itself agree on both points.
 * A couple of times the FDC is referred to as incomplete memory or sum of memories of the Doctor.

I still stand by the belief that calling it First Doctor (consciousness) would be inaccurate. Upon relistening, I do believe now that there is enough evidence to call it First Doctor (jar) because the confinement to the jar seems to be inherent to his existence (in the end of the story the FDC transfers itself into the system but seemingly looses its identity in the process). Perhaps, the "jar" version is less controversial and better supported by the story than First Doctor (transference). I would support either name.