On 31 January 2014 23:53, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Death used to be defined as the cessation of heartbeat and breathing, > > > Only by doctors. By everyone, because it was obvious that the person was unconscious and that, unlike sleep, they would not regain consciousness failing some miracle. > That is the 3p physiological definition though. People did > not define their own death that way. If that was ever truly the definition > of death, then the invention of heart-lung machines would have marked the > beginning of immortality. You're making illogical statements. If breathing and circulation can be restarted there will be other changes, such as decapitation, which are irreversible. > Forcing the heart to beat and the lungs to breath > does not, in fact, resurrect someone who is actually dead. It does resurrect them if their bodies are not otherwise seriously damaged. >> so according to this definition you *could* resurrect a dead person >> with fairly simple techniques which "fix the machine". > > > Because the definition is fictional. According to fictional definitions, you > could also resurrect a dead person by casting a spell. Whatever definition of death is used includes the concept of irreversibility. Do you disagree with that? What is your definition? >> In the future, >> this may be possible with what is currently defined as brain death. > > > It still does not figure into any prediction of Comp. From a comp > perspective it should be possible to resurrect specific modules of the mind > and personality long after death. It should really be possible to piece > together a person from their effects on the world really. By triangulating > everything that an artist or writer produced, it should be computationally > possible to reverse engineer them. As long as our browser history is intact, > we are potentially immortal. We are potentially immortal in the same way as a car can potentially survive indefinitely provided parts can be repaired or replaced indefinitely. At present, we can repair or replace some parts in the human body, but not enough to prolong life for more than a few years. -- 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.
