On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, at 22:56, Bruce Kellett wrote: > 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. >
Depends on what you mean by "you". > Physics rules out backward causation and branch jumping. Physics is inconsistent with itself and fails to explain significant aspects of observable nature, so it doesn't really matter what it "rules out". We don't know enough for such bold claims. Telmo. > >> … 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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSy%3DtB8XgPieA0bEfyRX%3Dz1aXvYyWUp1e_DdhMWmQ0p-Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/f6d72d12-d07f-4a1a-9fc7-b3d41c993b22%40www.fastmail.com.
