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Subject: Re: Matter transmission and duplication
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 21:12:57 EDT
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From: don.provan@A.CS.CMU.EDU

look at it this way: you make two copies of yourself.  which is you?
both?  how is your consciousness going to be in both?  that seems to make
it obvious to me that it would be in neither.  information is only good
for making copies.  for the external observer, the copy might be identical,
if we assume that everything that makes me is physical.  and, in fact, the
copy will serve just as well.  but internally, my consiousness will be blown
away.  the continuity that make me will be blasted.

information is only the end all be all for the person using the information,
not for the information itself.

as i say, feel free to be transmitted to mars, but you ain't getting me
up in one of them things.


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