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Subject: Matter transmission and duplication
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 01:28:36 EDT
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From: Keith F. Lynch 

    Date: 11 Sep 85 19:50:08 EDT
    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 have heard this attitude before, but I didn't expect to find it
amongst computer people, who are supposed to know that all that is
important is information.
  A duplicate isn't satisfactory?  Don't you know that the average
atom in the body only stays there a few weeks?  Only a small percentage
of the you of a year ago still exists.
  I would bet that if you were duplicated, that you (the duplicate)
wouldn't notice the difference.
  Still waiting for a personal backup service...
								...Keith