Liz: and HOW ON EARTH (verbatim: this one) would you know the entire World? Not to ask: what would you call 'populous'? Is a trillion 'many'? Please do ot quote Adam and Eve, Adam started out to be alone with a spare rib. And they(?) made the entire crowd. JM
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:48 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually I'm surprised that there are *no* "populous" universes anywhere > in the string landscape / level 4 multiverse (if such exist). Or perhaps > it's more likely that there are, but their proportion is so much lower than > our sort that the chances are still better to find oneself in a universe > where the life of civilisations is either nasty, brutish and short, or > involves us evolving into an "Childhood's End" style Overmind. > > > On 30 August 2014 08:25, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Russell: in your note >> >> >> >> *Yes, it does. And that might explain the Fermi paradox. It doesn't rule >> vastly distributed "hive minds", though. Perhaps our future is to be >> assilimated with the Borg.* >> >> isn't there an *"out" * missing in the 2nd line after 'rule', or >> not? >> >> John M >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:01:38AM +1200, LizR wrote: >>> > > Yes, I am hoping for a gradual decline ... what does the DDA have to >>> say >>> > about other sentient species? If, say, the Andromedans were going to >>> > colonise their entire galaxy, we'd almost certainly have been born one >>> of >>> > them. Does it therefore predict that there will be no vastly populous >>> > conscious race in any part of this universe or any other? >>> > >>> >>> Yes, it does. And that might explain the Fermi paradox. It doesn't >>> rule vastly distributed "hive minds", though. Perhaps our future is to >>> be assilimated with the Borg. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >>> Principal, High Performance Coders >>> Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >>> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >>> >>> Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >>> (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> -- >>> 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/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
