On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Indeed, with respect to immortality, an artificial brain is vain, but if > you want elongated your "normal" physical (arising from the sigma_1 > probability calculus), then you need to make your actual brain to continue > No I don't , I just have to make something that behaves as my original biological brain did because none of the atoms in my brain have the name "John K Clark" scratched on them. One Hydrogen atom is as good as another. > > > but then you can expect to pay the price in the normal worlds, and knowing > the humans, and the concrete doctors, that might be risky. > If you are correct please specify exactly what that risk is and explain how not getting frozen would avoid that risk. > > Your remark reminds me the critics against the MWers: why don't you jump > out of the window instead of using the lift, given that you will survive in > some worlds. > I like the Many Worlds Interpretation and think it's superior to any competing interpretation that I know of, but I'm not so confident it's correct that I'd bet my life on it. Bruno, I know you're certain but there is a question you need to ask yourself " besides being certain am I also correct?". > > > Answers the probability is hig that you survive with your quality life > deteriorated. > That answer makes no sense. If Many Worlds is correct then even if I decide not to jump out of the window in this universe in another universe I will decide to do so and I will die as a result . A nd in yet another universe I will also decide to jump out of the window but this time I don't die, I just break my spinal cord and become a quadriplegic. If the MWI is correct everything that can happen will happen. >> >> >> So if you're right I don't see what good keeping it secret would do. > > > > > To avoid becoming a victim by a hunters of those poor humans non-encrypted > code. > But if you're right (and I don't think you are) and physical implementation is unnecessary and the mere existence of a Godel number can create intelligence and consciousness then all those bad things are going to happen to you regardless of if a human or anything else plugs your Godel number into a physical computer. > > > there are much simplest and safe ways to be "immortal", in my *opinion* > (like perhaps smoking salvia divinorum, > Well it's simple I'll give you that, the active ingredient in salvia divinorum has only 23 Carbon atoms 28 Hydrogen atoms and 8 Oxygen atoms, but I don't see how a arrangement of matter that simple could make you immortal. > > > which is about the same as dying, at least in some theory/interpretation > of the experience). > They may have had the experience of taking the drug but they have not had the experience of dying so I don't see how they could know that one is like the other. > > > What would you choose, John, if I give you the choice between a yellow > pill and a green pill?: > - the yellow pill makes you immortal, > - the green pill eliminates completely the fear of death. > I would take he Yellow pill without hesitation. I would never take the green pill because without the fear of death I would have died many decades ago ; that's why Evolution invented fear as soon as it invented brains. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
