Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!DonProvan@CMU-CS-A From: DonProvan%CMU-CS-A@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: matter transmission Message-ID: <12556@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 12:42:58 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12556 Posted: Fri Aug 17 12:42:58 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:18:35 EDT Lines: 18 no! if you copy all the contents and spins and states from one place to another, you do NOT have the same object: you have a perfect COPY of the object. the "me" here, my consciousness, will NOT be transmitted, it will be DUPLICATED. even though no one will be able to tell the difference, thus making it a "transmission" to the scientist, *I*'ll be dead, dead, dead. i'm glad this isn't going to come up in the near future, 'cuz i'm sure i'd be ridiculed just like people who didn't think Man should fly, but it seems obvious to me that getting in a matter transmitter would be fatal. it really makes me understand how those people feel who refuse to fly even though all there friends keep saying "look at me: i flew and it hasn't hurt me a bit." so enough of this line. if you want matter transmission, you have to do it using space/time warps. obviously with a space/time warp, you don't get playback. so matter transmission does not imply infinite duplication anymore than FTL does. now if you ask me again tomorrow morning....