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Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 14:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 14:34:00 1984
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From:  Winston B. Edmond 

To Suford Lewis who wondered if he was the same when he wakes up in the
morning:  No, you are not the same, even from moment to moment.  You
are constantly changing.  As some would say, change is the only constant.

Matter transmitters:
As for matter transmitters not being able to circumvent the Heisenberg
Uncertainty principle well enough to transmit people: one of the chief
characteristics of living systems is their ability to organize their
environment.  An organism can either change the environment to its
liking, or can employ its immune system to eliminate a problem.  As
long as the matter transference system leaves the organism's systems
basically undamaged, it should not matter if small errors occur during
in transmission.  If the errors get too large, or course, the person
will be rather ill after being transmitted.
 -WBE