On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:53 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 Sep 2019, at 05:51, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/15/2019 6:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > And memory is fallible, and memory of age has no more meaning when your > age is bigger that the nameable or describable number, which happens very > soon, relatively, for the immortal being trying to keep track of their > birthday. > > Immortality is when you are to old to be able to even name your age. After > that, you have always the same age. > > > Nice aphorisms. But irrelevant. The question is why don't we see almost > everyone else as younger? > > > That happens when we are not old enough, but also, we might always > backtrack to younger people when close to death or when dying, … > What utter nonsense. You cannot jump between Everett branches, so you cannot jump to a branch in which you were young. Physics rules out backward causation and branch jumping. > … may be up to something like this video below, which is an > oversimplifying view (mixing G and G* all the time) of Neoplatonism, or > theology close to Mechanism: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI > > You can get very old, and always believed that you are young, even a baby, > and be right on that, just by not memorising everything. > Losing you mind when you are very old is quite common, but that does not mean that you become young again. Bruce Technological immortality is a sort of egotic complacency in the Samsara, > and a sort of Procrastination of Nirvana. But why not? There is something > to contemplate here, but here is only an aspect of a bigger and simpler > reality. And there is something to contemplate there too. With Mechanism, > mathematics can give a glimpse, and evacuate some fake certainties. Nature > also used some authoritative argument sometimes... > > Bruno > -- 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/CAFxXSLSy%3DtB8XgPieA0bEfyRX%3Dz1aXvYyWUp1e_DdhMWmQ0p-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
