Time, Not Cloning

Jeff Wilson · 02 Aug 2013, 23:30 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:30:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) Time, Not Cloning
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On Fri, August 2, 2013 14:24, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> True, but the terminology is well enough known:
>
> To the Ancient Egyptian there is more to human beings than body and soul.?
> They
> have (1) the khat (the physical body), (2) the saku (spiritual
> body), (3) the ab (heart), (4) the ka (double), (5) the ba (soul), (6) the
> khaibit (shadow), (7) the khu (intelligence),
> (8) the sekhem (form), (9) the ren (name).? Some have
> direct connection with "the realm of the gods"
> and one actually exists in "the realm of the gods".
>
>
> Striking that Wolfe did not use ka for apparent clones.

He may have read material from periods where the "ka" was treated as a
kind of poltergeist or id monster, more suitable for guarding tombs than
staffing a brothel.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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