To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: DarkHrzn91701{at}aol.com
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

In a message dated 6/18/03 1:22:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
allyn{at}allyngibson.net writes:

> > Why?  If someone walks five steps away from the transporter
>  > and gets killed you can't bring them back.  If you're going
>  > to back up people,  I see no reason to limit it.
>
>  Fair enough.
>
>  I think what you say makes a reasonable amount of sense.
>  It's immortality by other means.  And who wouldn't want to
>  live forever?

But "you" wouldn't live forever.  If you were hit by a truck,
you'd still die.  There'd be a "something" walking about that
looked just like you and talked like you and maybe even thought like you,
but that wouldn't erase the fact you'd been hit by the truck and taken ten
mintues to die a painful death.

Frank Tipler, a physicist from Tulane University, wrote a book called
"The Physics of Immortality" in which he envisioned in the far
distant future a huge machine that would run "computer
simulations" in which "copies" of us would exist and live
forever.

He seemed to get a lot of comfort out of this for some reason. I don't see
much advantage for me to know that if I die somewhere, somehow there'd be a
copy or simulation of me having a great life.  I'd still be dead.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm

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