Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!columbia!topaz!KFL From: KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Matter transmission and duplication Message-ID: <3661@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 01:28:36 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3661 Posted: Sun Sep 15 01:28:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:34:32 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: Keith F. LynchDate: 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