From: Ian Field (field_ian@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 08:29:11 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "m" <mt_2@yahoo.com>
| Blast it..
|
| A fruit is something with a seed in it or at least something which
| did have such a seed when it was in the wild (this allows sterile
| bananas).
| A vegetable is something edible derived from a non-reproductive
| part( eg roots, stems, leaves).
|
Oh, yeah... He's right - I'd be surprised to see a logical argument to this
statement.
| Now, to return to other matters-
|
| If you submit to a destructive copying process that produces a
| non-conscious copy of you (or one that doesn't share your actual
| stream of consciousness), then the copy can be a considered a
| "vegetable" (at least selfishly).
|
| You might contain the original seed of consciousness, but wouldn't
| you have to be a "fruit" to accept this strategy?.
|
|
| Mike (who would think twice about using a transporter).
|
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