Where can I sign up to be a part of Cosmic Liz? =p I've wondered if there exists an observer moment with all other observer moments as part of its consistent history.
I wonder what God's favorite dream is? On Thursday, April 23, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > My sense of things is that if it's not your identity who's is it then? > Pattern identity sorts it out. If it looks like you, and it thinks like > you, has your attitudes, opinions, belief's, prejudices, likes, dislikes, > feels like you, feels like your own tongue in your own mouth...that's you. > Pattern identity says the body is the soul and identity. Easy, Peasy. If > there are a million of you, with that feeling, and they all go off to have > a million different experiences, going forward, then hypothetically, you > all can meet at the end of time, so to speak, and all join together (Tipler > style) into one totally, cosmic Liz. According to Steinhart, uploading is > resurrection, or at least one branch of resurrection. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: LizR <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > To: everything-list <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Sent: Thu, Apr 23, 2015 6:06 am > Subject: Re: Practicalities of Mind Uploading > > Sorry to go off topic so soon :-) but at first glance the answer to > this would appear to depend completely on the answer to Bruno's "yes > doctor" - if one's consciousness is the result of computation at some > level, and assuming Bruno's chain of reasoning is correct, then a > destructive upload should be possible, and a conservative upload would give > you a 50-50 chance of finding yourself uploaded. If there is something > wrong with comp, e.g. non Turing emulable processes are involved, then it > seems unlikely that any type of upload will upload you - unless you have a > soul or something, in which case there is a 50-50 chance that a > conservative upload will either kill the original anyway, or turn it into a > zombie, or that the uploaded version will be soulless, whatever that means. > > Another take on this is Tipler's, as used in "The Physics of > Immortality", which is to assume that a simulation of the quantum state of > your brain will be you (and hence we could be in an ancestor simulation, or > wake up in one at any moment - if such things are possible, and are of high > enough fidelity to reproduce simulated quantum states, and will actually > exist somewhere, at some point in time - this is similar to a "Boltzman > brain" argument, I suspect). I don't have enough knowledge of the relevant > physics to comment on that one. > > -- > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list%[email protected]');>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/lwZ3U9M4974/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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.
