On 4 September 2014 14:04, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Childhood's End in on my top 20 best scifi books ever list... Umm, I > disagree with "the ultimate aim of life in "Star Maker" (iirc) was to > merge into a single mind" only to the extent that it is actually > impossible (there is a proven theorem to this effect) for this to happen. > It always goes the opposite direction: minds tend to diverge and become > diverse and not merge to an infinite limit. > Are you disagreeing that that was the aim in "Star Maker" (if so you're wrong, unless my memory has played me VERY false) or saying that you don't think that is the ultimate aim of life in actual fact (in which case you aren't disagreeing, because I never said it was) ? > > Merging actually destroys information. Witness the Black Hole. > > The black hole information paradox is thought to have been resolved in favour of it NOT destroying information. -- 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.
