On 27 September 2013 12:52, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/26/2013 7:48 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> On 27 September 2013 12:34, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/26/2013 7:15 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >>> >>> On 27 September 2013 11:03, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/26/2013 6:05 PM, Russell Standish wrote: >>> >>> This is a sort of cul de sac experience, which has to be impossible to >>> create if QTI is true. The existence of a universal dovetailer entails >>> the lack of all cul de sac experiences (Comp immortality). >>> >>> >>> So does it make loss of consciousness impossible? ....under >>> anesthesia?...forever? >>> >>> It makes permanent loss of consciousness (which is what death is) >>> impossible. >>> >>> >>> How? If temporary loss of consciousness is possible, what puts a time >>> limit >>> on it? What is the limit? an hour? a day? a year? a billion years? >> >> If you're unconscious for a trillion years or a minute it's all the >> same. Death is when you never, ever wake up. > > > OK. So why is that impossible?
It's not impossible if you lose consciousness and there are no conscious entities with your memories and mental states just before you lost consciousness. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
