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From: Nekar Xenos
Subject: Re: Philosophical pondering
Date: 20 Jan 2014 14:43:31
Message: <op.w9z3qpueufxv4h@xena>
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:56:09 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:


> So am I still the same person, or am I simply an (incomplete) copy of  
> that
> person?
>
No you are not the same person, but you are still you. If that makes any  
sense :)

This reminds me of the solutions I've seen for a "Beam me up, Scotty"  
machine: iirc it would involve replicating a person atom by atom,  
destroying the original in the process. Which sounds a bit too much like  
murder and cloning all-in-one :S

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-Nekar Xenos-


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Philosophical pondering
Date: 20 Jan 2014 16:48:28
Message: <52dd99ac$1@news.povray.org>
Am 20.01.2014 13:58, schrieb Doctor John:
> On 19/01/14 00:56, Warp wrote:
>> So am I still the same person, or am I simply an (incomplete) copy of that
>> person?
>>
>
> You are v1.01 RC1 of the previous version. All that happens is that a
> few bugs get ironed out (and a few new ones introduced).

Heh, I do like that analogy ;-)


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Philosophical pondering
Date: 20 Jan 2014 16:49:37
Message: <52dd99f1$1@news.povray.org>
Am 20.01.2014 20:14, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On 20/01/2014 03:43 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>
>> If the four original band members decide to record an album together
>> again, can they also call themselves YES?
>
> The answer is in the title. ;-)

"YES: We can!" :-P


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Philosophical pondering
Date: 20 Jan 2014 16:52:32
Message: <52dd9aa0$1@news.povray.org>
Am 20.01.2014 20:43, schrieb Nekar Xenos:

> This reminds me of the solutions I've seen for a "Beam me up, Scotty"
> machine: iirc it would involve replicating a person atom by atom,
> destroying the original in the process. Which sounds a bit too much like
> murder and cloning all-in-one :S

For possible side effects of this process, see the time machine 
(originally conceived as a teleportation device) in the movie "Timeline".


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Philosophical pondering
Date: 21 Jan 2014 03:36:43
Message: <52de319b$1@news.povray.org>
> This reminds me of the solutions I've seen for a "Beam me up, Scotty"
> machine: iirc it would involve replicating a person atom by atom,
> destroying the original in the process. Which sounds a bit too much like
> murder and cloning all-in-one :S

Until some hacker figured out how to disable the "destroy after copying" 
part of it (which no doubt the government has forced to be kept on with 
some bad DRM system). That would open a whole can of worms :-)


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