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From: ewiles@netex.UUCP (Ed Wiles)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: matter transmission and duplication
Message-ID: <109@netex.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 22:56:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 22:56:22 1985
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Summary: Radical Trans-Mat view

In article <3617@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, DP0N@A.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
> From: Don.Provan@CMU-CS-A
  
> 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.
> 
> you can walk into a disintegrator beam and have a copy of you made
> on another planet if you want, but i'm fond of this particular copy
> of myself.
> 

I know I have qualms about walking into a Trans Mat and having it fail,
but taking the view that it kills you when the 'copy' is indistinguishable
from the original is a bit radical.

					E. L. Wiles


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