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From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporters
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 16:33:38 EDT
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> Now, to the transporter.
> 
> Objectively, you have a body broken down into energy, beamed somewhere,
> and reconstructed (right.)  Is it the same person?  It can't be the
> same as falling asleep and waking up.  We can say this because a
> recording can be made.  If two copies are made, do they share the same
> consciousness?  No, at least according to some episode the name of which
> I forget.  So, anyway, is the id transferred as well as the body?  Is the
> Kirk that beams down the same Kirk that beams up?  Does anyone care?
> 
> 				Rob St. Amant
> 
> ps.	May the wrath of the Great Bird of the Galaxy fall upon anyone
> 	who responds to this posting with a simple "no."

no.

-- 
     Adrian Zannin

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