> From: Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The Fool wrote: > > >You would really have a machine destroy you (for our purposes kill you) > >and have that same machine construct a clone of you someplace else? > >Sorry that's not for me. > > > Admit it Kneem, > You just don't want a machine to encode your physical being into a data
> stream that someone else might be able to backup, track or duplicate.... > :-) All true. Still a clone of me just isn't me, nomatter how it acts like me. > > And for the record, transporters wouldn't be my choice of transport all > the while my intact and complete (if somewhat out of shape) body can be > moved around....
