wbe@bbn-vax.ARPA (08/17/84)
From: Winston B. Edmond <wbe@bbn-vax.ARPA> 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
psc@lzmi.UUCP (08/22/84)
"Suford Lewis: is he the same when he wakes up the next morning?"
If, one morning, she didn't wake up female, she sure wouldn't be
the same! (If I'm confusing SL with someone else, this joke is
going to be humorously obscure, but I think I'm right.)
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-Paul S R Chisholm, AT&T-IS, {lznv,lzmi,lzwi}!psc