On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 7:05 AM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> *>> There are proposed cosmologies that allow for an infinite number of >> computational steps to occur - IIRC, the "big rip" is one such.* > > > I don't think so -- the "big rip" would simple tear the physical computer > to pieces..... > True but before the computer got ripped apart you could extract a arbitrarily large amount of work from the Big Rip itself to power that computer, so it could perform a arbitrarily large number of calculations. If there were no last computation on the computer running a upload then the upload would not have a last thought, and thus would achieve subjective immortality. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1w5XL50O9ETsnED33DkadLmqdgXzZt%3D_Gp2keTgPm2yA%40mail.gmail.com.
