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>From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
Subject: Re: red light / blue light scenario
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In article <6539@pkmab.se> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
>In article <1992Jan30.012944.5782@norton.com> brian@norton.com (Brian Yoder) writes:
>>Given that this whole discussion relies on a premise that is false (that 
>>people can be identically duplicated by fancy machines) what importance does 
>>whole line of thinking have?

>It might cast some light on the general concept of "identity".

Well yes, I did think that was the point of discussions like this,
Kristoffer. I presume, however, that Brian finds the question uninteresting
because it doesn't lead to any practical benefits...
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