On 5 May 2015 at 12:01, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/4/2015 11:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 04 May 2015, at 15:08, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you shall view my last, >> number 26th, the last one. > > > Ah there you are! And you are not the only one from this list commenting > there, it's a small world. > > My bet on computational after-lives is that we are in one already (an > infinity of times), but this is completely transparent to us. > > >> This kind of thing is interesting to me. I tend toward the materialist >> stuff since it seems to have potential. The mentalist stuff seems >> unreliable because people who have NDE's or trances have not come back with >> information. > > > I would say that the important distinction is between communicable and > non-communicable stuff. Science is about communicable stuff, but there is > personal value in exploring the internal world -- although it won't get you > a nobel prize or even any sort of recognition. > > This is because there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics (not mentioning > Theology). > > But you can have the Nobel prize of literature, and some text does > indeed quasi-succeed, perhaps, in communication a bit of the > uncommunicable. Then you can communicate a part conditionally, like if I am > consistent then I can't justify that I am consistent, and the inetnsional > variants. > > Bruno > > You can get a Templeton, which is for merging science and religion and is > worth more than a Nobel. >
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