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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (141734)	1/15/2002 5:51:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585622

The duuplicate problem has usually been dealt with by the scanning being destructive It doesn't really deal with either of the two related issues. 1 - Is it really you instead of a copy? - If it is not really you then all that making the scanning process destructive does is make sure that you are dead when the copy appears. As far as other people are concerned they can treat the copy as you because it is an exact copy your consciousness ends and another one is created. 2 - You can make multiple copies even if the scanning process is destructive. Once you are scanned that information can be stored then the transporter can make as many copies as you have the energy to create. Also no crew member would ever die (atleast from the perspective of the other crew members) unless that stored data was lost. If they don't have enough storage space to store the crew, they could just do the Star Trek equivalent of adding a few hard drives. The recent movie where copies were made(analog...they got worse in definition the later generation they were duped from the master). They would not need to copy a copy, they could store a "digital master" of the first copy and make as many copies as they needed. Tim Tim