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Comment Copy & paste Vs cut and paste (Score 1) 409

If the matter of the body wasn't disassembled during scanning and an identical copy could be created that would clearly be a second and separate instance of a person from the original. So this shows the newly created person is a separate instance. If the scanning is destructive it doesn't change anything, the first person is destroyed and a new, identical instance created, as above. Indistinguishable from the perspective of others but not the same continuous consciousness of the original. However the copy would insist it was of course.
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New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air 368

sciencehabit sends this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "Researchers in California have produced a cheap plastic capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Down the road, the new material could enable the development of large-scale batteries and even form the basis of 'artificial trees' that lower atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in an effort to stave off catastrophic climate change."

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