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To: lafroste
The way I see it, and I'll use a complex object as example is that, what does it matter to a person that wants to "travel" to a civilization at the other side of the Milky Way if the information of himself is instantaneously recreated via quantum entanglement on that distant civilization? He didn't travel anywhere but for all he knows as he stands among the distant civilization is that he is really there and no longer here.
32 posted on 12/20/2001 6:43:24 AM PST by Zon
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To: Zon
The way I see it, and I'll use a complex object as example is that, what does it matter to a person that wants to "travel" to a civilization at the other side of the Milky Way if the information of himself is instantaneously recreated via quantum entanglement on that distant civilization?

The problem IMHO is that all this ignores the essence of what it is to be human, ie. a spirit. How can a physical process, no matter how sophisticated, act on that which is not subject to physical law? At this point, science and philosophy will have to be reconciled (in other words, it is still a long way off).

39 posted on 12/20/2001 6:49:45 AM PST by lafroste
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To: Zon
The Matrix!
63 posted on 12/20/2001 7:24:58 AM PST by elephantlips
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