On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:21:44 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > On 30 January 2014 10:00, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:46:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > >> > >> On 30 January 2014 09:39, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:38:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On 30 January 2014 11:24, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:34:48 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > >> >>>> > >> >>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Weinberg < > whats...@gmail.com> > >> >>>> wrote: > >> >>>> > >> >>>>> > NO ROOM CAN BE CONSCIOUS. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> And we know that because we can say it in all capital letters, or > >> >>>> possibly from the teachings of two of your favorite subjects, > >> >>>> astrology and > >> >>>> numerology. > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> The all caps were in response to Bruno's all caps, and no, you > don't > >> >>> need > >> >>> astrology and numerology to understand that rooms are not haunted > by > >> >>> the > >> >>> spirits of system-hood. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Imagine a small, roughly spherical room made out of a fairly hard > >> >> material > >> >> something like limestone. Make a few holes in it, fill it with some > >> >> goop > >> >> with the consistency of blancmange, decorate with sense organs and > >> >> throw in > >> >> a body. > >> >> > >> >> Et voila! > >> > > >> > > >> > Voila, a cadaver. > >> > >> Unless it's all set up to function properly. > > > > > > What's wrong with the way a cadaver functions? > > Many changes occur after death, the end result of which is that in a > cadaver, the parts are in the wrong configuration and therefore don't > work together as they do in a living person.
Wrong for whom? They are in a better configuration for certain microrganisms to thrive. There's probably more complexity in the computation of a decomposing body than a healthy one . > Death is said to occur > when the changes are irreversible, but people who have themselves > cryonically preserved hope that future technology will allow what is > currently thought to be irreversible to become reversible. > Had we not already discovered the impossibility of resurrecting a dead person with raw electricity, would your position offer any insight into why that strategy would fail 100% of the time? Craig > > > -- > 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 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.
