On 16 October 2013 14:09, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:52:48 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: >> >> Sorry I should have added... your statement "A human body may be a >> machine" contradicts "a machine does not build itself from a single >> reproducing cell. A machine does not care what it is doing, it doesn't get >> bored or tired" - unless a human being is not the same thing as a human >> body, of course. Is that the point? >> > > Right, a human body is not the same thing as a human being. A human body > is still a body after the human ceases being. Not because there is an > immaterial spirit, but because the entire universe is a nested experience > and the body is more about experiences on the cellular and molecular level > than it is about individual lifetimes. > Now you've lost me. Is a "nested experience" anything like Max Tegmark's "self-aware subsystems" ? -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
