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From: clelau@wateng.UUCP (Eric C.L. Lau)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Matter transmission and duplication
Message-ID: <2812@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 23:05:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 23:05:51 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 06:18:36 EDT
References: <3661@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: clelau@wateng.UUCP (Eric C.L. Lau)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <3661@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA writes:
>From: Keith F. Lynch <KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA>
>    i don't care how many ra81's of data you have on me, and i don't
>    care how good you are at reconstructing me: once i'm dead, i'm dead.
>    you can make copies of me until you're blue in the face, but *i*'ll
>    still be dead.
>  A duplicate isn't satisfactory?  Don't you know that the average
>atom in the body only stays there a few weeks?  Only a small percentage
>of the you of a year ago still exists.
>  I would bet that if you were duplicated, that you (the duplicate)
>wouldn't notice the difference.
>								...Keith

I guess this question comes down to whether *I* am more than a bunch of
atoms, i.e. the existence of a soul.  Of course, that leaves another good
question: if you tranmit all my atoms elsewhere, where does that leave
my soul(assuming one exists)?  But if you don't believe that souls exist,
then transmit away.

		Eric Lau
		...!ihnp4!watmath!wateng!clelau

P.S. Please don't start a theological argument over this.  Leave that in
net.religion.  My brain was just running over onto my keyboard.


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