From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 07:21:27 MDT
--- Zero Powers <zero_powers@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
> > > > >It's a fruit!
> > > >
> > > > Fruit grows on trees, tomatoes grow on vines.
> >
> >So I guess that makes a strawberry a vegetable too?
>
> And watermelon too?
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).
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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