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From: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: matter transmission, etc.
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 19:13:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 19:13:55 1985
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The matter transmission might destroy a soul if we had one.  What are the char-
acteristics of the soul, if one exists?
	Consider what matter transmission could do for surgery:  load someone
into memory and just edit them, removing cancers and such.  Maybe even take
out the brain of a youthful backup and substitute the one of the aging current
one, and PRESTO! instant youth.  Is someone legally dead when they only exist
on magnetic tape or whatever we use for storing them?  Suppose there's a glitch
in the tape when you're restored, heavens forbid....
	Think of what could be possible for transporation: assuming the ability
to digitise someone and recreate them later, it might be able to post a copy of
yourself to net.net-people and be created for a conversation.  Or famines and
droughts:  take the digitisation of several acre-feet of water and just supply
the energy from a nuclear power plant and create water or food!  There's a lot
more than souls in danger here- transporation, factories, and much more would
be made completely obscelescent...
						Carl Greenberg


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