Picard: "Oh, no! Kirk is dead!"
Jordi: "That's okay, I'll just make a fresh copy from the last time we teleported him -- or did you think we reduced people to binary information without recording that information?"
>Since the copy is not me, what characteristics really define the individual
>being????
>With an object, there's apparently no problem in using the exact copy...
>but even animals, copied like
>this, are other beings...
>
>What I am ???
>
>Gomes.
>
>>In the method used for teletransfer the particle, it is necessary to
>>destroy the original...
>>But if we talk about a person, like Kirk, I suppose that after the first
>>teletransport, it is not the
>>original Kirk anymore... although the copy "teletransported" has the same
>>memory banks than the original
>>and simply continues Original Kirk's work....and for everybody, he just
>>*apparently* is the original>>> Got what I mean ??????
>>
>>That is obvious because if we do not delete the original >>> there will be
>>2 Kirks...>>
>>And if the original is the one not deleted, if you destroy him, the second
>>will be just a copy.....
>>
>>Gomes
>
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