On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 23:41, Eva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I want to talk with you about Dr. Peter Rowlands works, which I find very > fascinating. > > Here is his talk about foundations od physical laws: > https://youtu.be/BGAopIzAjyk > > Here is paper: > > https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2017.00028/full > > > One of his main idea is that sum of everything in nature equal zero. > > > Here are some of his other statemants: > > - time is irreversible and absolutely > continuous (can't be measured and > divided) > - global entropy always increases > - everything in nature constantly strives > towards self-annihilation with the rest > of Universe or the universal vacuum. > > My conclusions from the above are as follows: > > 1. In principle, sooner or later, every living system such as human being, > or humanity will be annihilated. > > 2. In principle, if system is annihilated then it is irreversible - a > system with the same internal structure may be created, but it will not be > the very same system, it may be (at most) perfectly isomorphic, but it will > not share the same identity. > > So, for example, if I die, and hypothetically, in the distant future, an > exact copy of my body will be made than it will be an exact copy of my body > and consciousness, but not my current identity, so my consciousness will > not reappear after my death like from deep sleep. > > > I would like to ask you, are my conclusions solid? > > In the past I have encountered statements that every situation, and every > particular life, return endlessly because the time is infinite, but the > number of possibile configurations of atoms is finite. This idea is > terrible. > > Some people also talk about "eternal return" in the context of 4D block > universe theory where every situation is timless, but this does not worry > me because this is justified on the basis of special relativity theory > which does not contain the "absolutely continuous" concept of time. > > What do you think about it?
I don’t see why you say that an exact copy of your body, including your consciousness, would not be a continuation of your current identity. That would be like saying that every time you go to sleep you wake up with a different identity, but you believe and everyone else believes it is the same one: how is it different to it actually being the same one, and why should you care? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/CAH%3D2ypWcrNDnZj7-tbuwJ%2BXfXMbDZbtwjZv54QeBxtaX33Z-pg%40mail.gmail.com.
