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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: Matter Transmission -- easy to explain
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 18:41:25 EDT
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Quoted from <3980@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> ["Re: Matter Transmission."], by AI.MAYANK@MCC.ARPA...
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| From: Mayank Prakash <AI.Mayank@MCC.ARPA>
| 
|  >
|  >i think a recent post (which, i believe, was arguing against me)
|  >said it best: "'Having the same indentity' is not an equivalence
|  >relation."  exactly my point.  just because it looks like me, talks
|  >like me, smells like me, acts like me, and thinks it is me doesn't
|  >make it me.
| 
| Then why don't you tell us what makes you "you", instead of raving
| about what doesn't? 
| 
| -mayank.
| -------
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It's very easy to explain in Lisp: (MacLisp)

	*(defun transport (object place)
	  (set-for place)
	  (energize))			;;; forgive me!!!
	transport
	*(equal (transport me there) me)
	t
	*(eq (transport me there) me)
	nil
	*

--Brandon
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