On 26 Mar 2014, at 23:26, LizR wrote:
On 27 March 2014 10:30, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]>
wrote:
Unless you allow brains to grow infinitely big, there are only a
finite number of possible brains even in an infinite universe.
With sufficiently advanced technology (e.g. uploading yourself to a
digital brain), the upper limit on your brain size is theoretically
unbounded, except perhaps by cosmological considerations. Prepare to
join the Overmind...
Hmm, I can understand that you put your physicalist hat (because it is
a day with a "T"!), but here you put both the physicalist hat, and the
comp hat.
Should I infer that every day with a "T", you are inconsistent?
Note that being immortal by having a growing brain might not be funny,
and once immortal, people will love "forgetting" and resetting their
mind. To much souvenirs might be heavy to support. When human will be
technologically immortal they might regret it and have a strong
nostalgia of death and amnesia.
In buddhist term, terrestrial or technological immortality might only
be a manner to prevent the nirvana, and to pursue our staying in the
samsara forever. Then you can develop an infinite karma making harder
and harder to get the nirvana and a pacified soul.
Bruno
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