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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: matter transmission
Message-ID: <684@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 18:12:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 18:12:35 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:34:55 EDT
References: <3725@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <3725@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> DP0N@A.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>let me say it one more way.  imagine that we can make the copy
>without damaging the original at all.  according to the arguments i'm
>hearing, if you shoot the original through the head, it will not experience
>death now, since there is a copy of it.  this is plainly ridiculous.

No, in order for the original not to be dead, you would have to make the
copy *after* it was shot.  After the copy, there are two people, who each
have the same identity as the person before the copy, but they do *not*
have the same identity as each other.  "Having the same identity" is not
an equivalence relation.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108


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