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Subject: Souls and Clones
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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 00:29:00 EDT
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From:  Steve Platt <Platt%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>

Syd Logsdon:  ^SA Fond Farewell to Dying^S, discusses the problem
of the transfer of the soul in a cloned human being.

Alternate notes on matter transmission/creation:  why is it necessary
to create ^Sa lot^S of matter?  If you are re/constructing to meet
subatomic specifications, you might as well create wafer-sized IC's,
worth far more than gold by weight.  Surgical implants and extractions
in otherwise unreachable sites, etc, etc.
  As a weapon:  pump some small amount of mass (say, one years' garbage
output of NYC) into a single point; this'll create a black hole which
will quickly evaporate in a rather nasty explosion.  (I ^Stried^S to
turn this into an energy source, but the amt. of mass to stabilize
the evaporation is just too large.  In what would be managable,
you could only create a blot which would explode in no time at all.)

-steve