Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

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> Nobody in particular wrote:
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>> In a world with both, why not use uploading as a backup, assuming the
>> uploading process isn't destructive?  After all, even indefinite
>> biological life extension wouldn't prevent accidental death.  I think
>> some take this approach in the Heechee-verse.
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> Because there's no such thing as a backup? If I die, I die. Whatever
> you make from a copy isn't me. The fact that you could make two or ten
> or ten thousand copies should tell you that.

Yeah, but it may be better than nothing at all.  For that matter, if you
step into a Star Trek trans****ter, is the "you" that appears somewhere
else really the same person that was dematerialized?  The tele****ters
in Barton's "Dark Sky Legion" and fax plates in the Queendom of Sol
stories were explicitly destructive, with little or no quantum hand-
waving, and with possible extensive bit-twiddling in transit.