From:	Brian W Allison <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Matrix awakening
Date:	Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:58:45 -0500

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Midn Daniel O Fredrikson wrote:

> >
> > While this doesn't affect the concept of "Can an 'AI' exist?", it
does
> > destroy the concept that if you use a Star Trek style 'transporter' - that
> > you'd be the same person. You couldnt' be.
> >
> For argument sake, how about magical teleportation? Does it exist, or is
> it just a figiment of fantasy?


Magical Teleportation isn't.

What it *is*, is opening a doorway to a Metaplane, then opening another
doorway back to this one.

If in Metaplane X, my current location corresponds to the top of a hill,
yet in that same metaplan one step to the left corresponds to somewhere
*very* far away in this plane, then that'd be one way to 'teleport'.


Or if you want *real* magical teleportation, have the magic rip their
particles apart physically and throw it elsewhere. Now the mana has
to not only remember the pattern, but alter it as appropriate while it
moves it.

Hurts like a SOB, and can kill you outright.

If you want my work-up of the spell, I'll send it to you. *evil grin*

My version though, requries 2 mages to Trade Places. And yes, each can
die from it.





Brian W. Allison

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