If I recall one of the (improbable) possibilities thrown up by Barrow & Tipler was that as atoms vanish the human body would also vanish, be converted into an energy form, and that at the final point the ultimate purpose of "life" would be revealed as being to prevent the Universe from destroying itself by hurling all matter into a decaying black hole (using von-Neuman machines a-la "2010")..
On 4/4/12, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > what about robotic civilisations-that is to say instead of humans > civilasionastions of what we'd consider robots that might be able to live > places humans cant or won't > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for reminding me about this book. I'd read it many years ago >> (when I still knew maths) as an online PDF, which luckily I had still >> kept saved somewhere. >> >> Could anyone on this list update me if a "Quantum Copernican >> Principle" *referred to in Chapter 7 (?) "Quantum mechanics and the >> Anthropic Principle" of the book is still somewhat accepted / >> discredited in the academic community. This is in the context of >> classical universes and Many Worlds Interpretation. >> >> PS: Its a wonderful book, takes heavy going, and has all the >> essentials of a book I'd like to read 10 years from now. >> >> Sarbajit >> >> On 4/2/12, Tom Carter <t...@astarte.csustan.edu> wrote: >> > Owen - >> > >> > Can't remember if I've recommended this here in the past . . . but >> apropos >> > various of these topics is "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" by >> Barrow >> > and Tipler. It's getting a bit old now (1988), but I think still worth >> the >> > read . . . they cover tons of fascinating stuff . . . (and are likely to >> > annoy more than a few :-) >> > >> > >> > >> http://www.amazon.com/Anthropic-Cosmological-Principle-Oxford-Paperbacks/dp/0192821474 >> > >> > Thanks . . . >> > >> > tom >> > >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
