Re: What day is it?

On 15 Sep 2015, at 22:33, smitra wrote: On 12-09-2015 10:26, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Sep 2015, at 18:17, smitra wrote: It seems to me that COMP should lead to MWI plus a preferred basis where the latter derives from well defined computational states. Many of the problems with the MWI

Re: What day is it?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 Jason Resch wrote: ​>​ > You were told the protocol before you were put to sleep. > ​Yes.​ > ​> ​ > You know that the answer cannot be Friday. > ​I know nothing of the sort! If Einstein taught us anything it's that time is not absolute and so I

Re: Could we live forever?

On 9/16/2015 10:39 AM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 , spudboy100 via Everything List >wrote: ​ > ​ It seems, at this point, that the time for uploading is far, far, away. It could emerge out of

Re: Could we live forever?

On 9/16/2015 10:27 AM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 Brent Meeker >wrote: ​ > ​ Without a built-in biological life span, people may become extremely timid and risk averse. ​ If you knew you were immortal why on earth

Re: Could we live forever?

Probably better to ask if immortal uploads would spend their times living in underground computer network facilities for ages, or would they roam the galaxy, searching for biology? Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: John Clark To:

Re: Could we live forever?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 Brent Meeker wrote: ​> ​ > Without a built-in biological life span, people may become extremely > timid and risk averse. > ​If you knew you were immortal why on earth would you ​be risk averse? ​And if the death of death causes social problems then

Re: Could we live forever?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 , spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > ​> ​ > It seems, at this point, that the time for uploading is far, far, away. It > could emerge out of neuroscience research, and all that, but it doesn't > feel like there is anything reliable at