From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 12 1997 - 04:02:59 MST
At 11:13 AM 12/11/97 -0800, JKC wrote:
>Communication is transportation if it's good enough.
> It's only when the receiver
>compared his results with the records of what I did, and that can only be
>done at the speed of light or less, would it become obvious that what I did
>instantly changed what happened in the distant receiver.
I've always assumed that this implies the universe (or the galaxy at least)
is littered with near-c-speed dumb couriers depositing one-use quantum
`pads' in interesting places, or maybe at random. An immortal culture
could use these prepared boxes to teleport their brain states (very
expensively and infrequently) hither and yon `simultaneously'.
Damien Broderick
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