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Hi Liz, I think that Tipler handbarrow were imagining a time in the office
distant future when there would be such a superb amount of Higgs energy, or
sheer energy that that would be power to recollapse the universe into what we
would call Computronium. That according to Tipler is the cosmological anthropic
singularity also known as God. Tiplers a solid Christian, so of course this
singularity is triune. Hans Moravec took a more agnostic approach, and believed
our descendents will re-create us as virtual-reality programs inside a very big
virtual-reality program without having to collapse the universe.
As Nick Bostrom might say, who knows maybe where this already virtual-reality
characters inside a program? What's more troubling at least for me personally
is that there has been virtually nobody to pick up the torch of Tipler or
Moravec as far as reconstructing dead entities, also known as people. In my own
stupid way, I have tried to understand Prof. Bruno Marchal's version of post
mortality, but still cannot really connect with it intellectually. Ashamed to
admit.
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Just to throw my own opinion in, according to Moravec, QI isn't the primary
method of immortality (or post mortality) it is the reconstruction of dead
people via ultra-massive, computer re-simulation. Moravec's description in Mind
Children, it was computers built out of neutron star material (degenerate
matter) used to produce 10^60 operations per second.
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Also according to Frank Tipler, although he appears to require a recollapsing
universe to do it (I'm not sure why).
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