Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 5:58 PM wrote: *> There have been many deaths, unexpected, with those who are young, and* > [blah blah blah] > I repeat, the statistics couldn't be clearer, those who believe in your philosophy regarding vaccination and that of DeSantis tend to die, and those who believe

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
. She blinded me with science, She did it with technology! -Original Message- From: John Clark To: spudboy...@aol.com Cc: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Dec 17, 2022 5:48 pm Subject: Re: Death, science, and politics On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 5:22 PM wrote: > Attack

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread Dylan Distasio
There are plenty of reputable researchers and MDs who have raised concerns over the safety of mRNA nanoparticles as a delivery vehicle; it's not necessary to go to the Epoch times to find these concerns, and it's not a conspiracy theory. It is pretty clear at this point that the nanoparticles in

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
foremost, and use politics to finance worthy, yummy projects.  Oh yeah, and Merry Strominger-mas to you! Carols forthcoming  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Cc: goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com Sent: Sat, Dec 17, 2022 5:11 pm Subject: Re: Death,

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 5:22 PM wrote: *> Attacking DeSantis will gain you nothing since* [blah blah blah] Let's cut through the bullshit and get to the core of the matter, and that's easy to do because the statistics couldn't be clearer, those who believe in your philosophy regarding

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread Brent Meeker
On 12/17/2022 2:01 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: It does not in any case explore the notion of vaccines causing harm to people who would have lived without the jab? That was "explored" by vaccinating a few thousand volunteers before approval of public release by the FDA. I go

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
m the "Politics sucks, its technology that helps us. Choir?" You may want to sit this one out Master Clark? -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Dec 17, 2022 7:34 am Subject: Re: Death, science, and politics On Sat, Dec 17,

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 5:01 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: * > I go with the science on this because it is a fair medical question. So > does DeSantis. * And DeSantis believes that the right people to do science are lawyers and right wing political

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 7:20 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: *> Please, you cite the Epoch Times, which is a pure propagandist rag. > Nobody with a credible argument cites them.* Spudboy is very fond of spewing out lots and lots of citations, but typically none of

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-17 Thread Lawrence Crowell
that politicians are > bribe-worth by those who Fund the science. > > Why are so many young dropping dead? it's a reasonable question. > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: John Clark > To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > Sent: Fri, D

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-16 Thread Brent Meeker
ther new study, this one by the National Bureau of Economic Research, finds that between March 2020 to December 202 in Florida (where DeSantis is the governor) and Ohio, there was a 76% higher COVID death rate among Republicans than Democrats. And to this day 20% of the US population has not receiv

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
dead? Causes? Lets find out.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 12:15 pm Subject: Re: Death, science, and politics On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:52 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > There is real concern among m

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-16 Thread John Clark
he thought it would help him become more popular with the Republican death cult, and it probably will. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> uty -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Eve

Re: Death, science, and politics

2022-12-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
: Death, science, and politics I would be interested to know if anybody can find a connection or a pattern of some sort between these 5 recent stories. 1) A new scientific study found that in the US the Covid-19 vaccine has saved more than 3.2 million lives and kept more than 18.5 million people out

Death, science, and politics

2022-12-16 Thread John Clark
s the governor) and Ohio, there was a 76% higher COVID death rate among Republicans than Democrats. And to this day 20% of the US population has not received one single Covid shot, and almost all of them are members of the Republican death cult. EXCESS DEATH RATES FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS DURI

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-17 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 7:41 PM wrote: *> You are ignoring the funders of the democratic party, Wall Street execs. > These are the woke boards of directors laying down bribe money for > campaigns.* > That is just the standard Mickey Mouse level of corruption that has been going on for the last

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
don't know how to fix this problem.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List Cc: goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com Sent: Thu, Jun 16, 2022 9:59 am Subject: Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 1:46 AM spudboy100

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-16 Thread John Clark
led them Stews. As in to stew in a hot bath. > Scatalogically speaking that is. > > > -Original Message- > From: Lawrence Crowell > To: Everything List > Sent: Wed, Jun 15, 2022 11:27 am > Subject: Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death > > Wel

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
lims they encountered. The British of centuries past called them Stews. As in to stew in a hot bath. Scatalogically speaking that is.  -Original Message- From: Lawrence Crowell To: Everything List Sent: Wed, Jun 15, 2022 11:27 am Subject: Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-15 Thread Lawrence Crowell
eria always remained > (or evolved into) bacteria, so did all other species. Species continuity is > the rule. > >Death of necessity has to follow life. What is the cause of death? Life > cannot be an answer. What is the cause of life? What is more rational, > aseity of LIFE

FW: [Consciousness-Online] FW: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-12 Thread Philip Benjamin
general_the...@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Consciousness-Online] FW: The correlation between belief in Trump and death [Philip Benjamin] https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/ As of January 2021 "The Evil" Administration's "EVIL&q

RE: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-11 Thread Philip Benjamin
nor in the living. Bacteria always remained (or evolved into) bacteria, so did all other species. Species continuity is the rule. Death of necessity has to follow life. What is the cause of death? Life cannot be an answer. What is the cause of life? What is more rational, aseity of LIFE or of

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 6:40 PM wrote: *> and there is lack of sufficient evidence (going by your explanation) is > that Trumpo is so stupid, that he cannot even perform a proper, Coup d' > Etat.* There is an ocean of evidence that Trump is dumb as a brick, and months before the 2016 election

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-10 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
tal Groups $$$ And you call yourself a capitalist!!! Tsk! May Yog Sothoth forgive you. -Original Message- From: John Clark To: spudboy...@aol.com Cc: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 4:04 pm Subject: Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death On Thu, J

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-10 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
iginal Message- From: Brent Meeker To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 3:19 pm Subject: Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death Natural selection in action. Brent On 6/9/2022 8:38 AM, John Clark wrote: In looking over the Internet I found so

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-09 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM wrote: *> I know lots and lots of conservatives who took the vaxes. I had vax 4 > Pfizer a month ago.* > I provide statistics, in rebuttal you provide personal anecdotes. And I don't know what the word "conservative" means anymore, at one time it meant somebody

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-09 Thread Brent Meeker
Natural selection in action. Brent On 6/9/2022 8:38 AM, John Clark wrote: In looking over the Internet I found some interesting statistics. At the start of the Covid epidemic, before the vaccine was invented, the death rate for black Americans was much higher than that of white Americans

Re: The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-09 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
k!  Rock on JC, Rock on! -Original Message- From: John Clark To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 11:38 am Subject: The correlation between belief in Trump and death In looking over the Internet I found some interesting statistics. At the start of the Covid epidemic

The correlation between belief in Trump and death

2022-06-09 Thread John Clark
In looking over the Internet I found some interesting statistics. At the start of the Covid epidemic, before the vaccine was invented, the death rate for black Americans was much higher than that of white Americans, but that is no longer true; today the death rate for white Americans is 14% higher

Re: Death With Dignity

2020-10-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2020, at 14:37, John Clark wrote: > > In a civilized place like Washington State it is legal for a terminally ill > person to end their life If they decide to do so. An ALCOR member decided to > do just that and employees of that organization we're on hand when he died to > make

Death With Dignity

2020-09-30 Thread John Clark
In a civilized place like Washington State it is legal for a terminally ill person to end their life If they decide to do so. An ALCOR member decided to do just that and employees of that organization we're on hand when he died to make sure he could immediately get the best possible preservation.

For the US COVID-19 has now reached 3 Vietnam's worth of death

2020-08-19 Thread John Clark
58,220 Americans died in the entire Vietnam War of all causes not just from combat, and as of right now August 19 at 11:13 GMT 175,092 Ameracans have died of COVID-19, just over 3 times as many. And this all happened since March. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are

The death rate

2020-04-04 Thread John Clark
and Afghanistan wars combined. And right now, on Saturday April 4 at 16:08 GMT 7847 have die from it, and the US only had its first COVID-19 death on March 1. Only 2 countries in the world have a higher number of COVID-19 deaths than the US, Italy and Spain. Italy's number of deaths is doubling every 10

Re: Death creeps through the brain as a “spreading wave” of silence and inactivity

2018-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
anesthesia (at least due to propofol). >> However, large scale network integration is lost. So I don't think general >> anesthesia is very similar to death at the neural level at all.- >> http://www.pnas.org/content/109/49/E3377?etoc= >> <http://www.pnas.org/content/109/

Re: Death creeps through the brain as a “spreading wave” of silence and inactivity

2018-03-03 Thread agrayson2000
propofol). However, large scale network integration is lost. So I don't > think general anesthesia is very similar to death at the neural level at > all.- http://www.pnas.org/content/109/49/E3377?etoc= > > *It does show that time must be a trivial property of the universe if shutting

Re: Death creeps through the brain as a “spreading wave” of silence and inactivity

2018-03-02 Thread Brent Meeker
sia is very similar to death at the neural level at all.-  http://www.pnas.org/content/109/49/E3377?etoc= On a different note.  I have read some of the discussion and literature about computation and consciousness on various fora.  There is a school of thought that matter does not actually ex

Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death

2014-01-20 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too. If the body generates consciousness

Re: Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death

2014-01-20 Thread spudboy100
itself. Extraordinary evidence and all that. Secondly, the American libertarian philosopher at Harvard, guess that, at the moment of death, human minds move out orthogonally, to become new universe. So, we are all proto-universes, in the late, professor's view. -Original Message- From

Re: Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death

2014-01-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist. The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later

Re: Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Ruquist
tools of our animal understanding. Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist. The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought

Re: The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness

2013-11-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Nov 2013, at 14:11, Roger Clough wrote: The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness Consciousness, which is experience by the first person singular, is by definition outside of the scope of analytic philosophy, which is limited to be able to only deal in descriptions

The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness

2013-11-27 Thread Roger Clough
The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness Consciousness, which is experience by the first person singular, is by definition outside of the scope of analytic philosophy, which is limited to be able to only deal in descriptions of experience. Definition of ANALYTIC

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-25 Thread John Clark
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:38 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: ** Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, You means before he went completely nuts. Today Tipler says we should look for divine DNA on the Shroud of Turin and check for radiation around the tomb of the Blessed Virgin

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 May 2013, at 01:55, meekerdb wrote: On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, has proposed exactly this resurrection as a a computer process, in the far future, and basically faced this ostracism, and still does, by his

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-20 Thread spudboy100
Message- From: Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, May 19, 2013 7:11 pm Subject: Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics. On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 06:38:59PM -0400, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Frank

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-20 Thread spudboy100
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, May 19, 2013 7:55 pm Subject: Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics. On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, has proposed exactly

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-20 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2013 11:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 May 2013, at 01:55, meekerdb wrote: On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, has proposed exactly this resurrection as a a computer process, in the far future, and basically faced

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-19 Thread Spudboy100
Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, has proposed exactly this resurrection as a a computer process, in the far future, and basically faced this ostracism, and still does, by his physicist chums. Pretty much nobody has followed in his foot steps (who wants a career at a

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 06:38:59PM -0400, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, has proposed exactly this resurrection as a a computer process, in the far future, and basically faced this ostracism, and still does, by his physicist chums. Pretty

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-19 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Frank Tipler, before he became a convinced Christian, has proposed exactly this resurrection as a a computer process, in the far future, and basically faced this ostracism, and still does, by his physicist chums. That's overstated. He still gets

Re: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics.

2013-05-10 Thread spudboy100
- From: Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net Sent: Thu, May 9, 2013 6:06 pm Subject: A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics. A speculation on life after death and ghosts in Leibniz's metaphysics. I have found from one of Leibniz's letters that each monad also

Life after death. Publish your book or papers on the internet for free

2013-02-26 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz, you'll probably come up with one of my postings. I'm sort of famous in that respect. Life after death. Just email your *.doc file or better yet export as a *.pdf. I'm not clear yet about the copyright issue. Certainly it's not problem if it's not copyrighted by a third party

Life and death in a world of good and evil

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Life and death in a world of good and evil Although God is all-powerful in Heaven, where there is no death, down here, where death is ever present, God must try to pilot us through sometimes rough waters, in which his options are more limited. Down here, good and evil -- life and death

More medications now interact with grapefruit--sudden death possible

2012-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
systems) - - and even sudden death. These interactions can take place many hours after grapefruit (or grapefruit juice) is consumed, and even just a single grapefruit or glass of grapefruit juice a day can spell trouble if you?e taking one of these drugs.. Those of us older than 45

Re: The neurology of near-death experiences

2011-05-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 May 2011, at 20:33, meekerdb wrote: This may be of interest: http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/2011/05/15/the-neurology-of-near-death-experiences/#more-7165 Interesting indeed. Of course the author use naïve brain-mind identity thesis to talk like if the mind-body problem has been

Fwd: FW: The neurology of near-death experiences

2011-05-23 Thread meekerdb
This may be of interest: http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/2011/05/15/the-neurology-of-near-death-experiences/#more-7165 Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list

Duality (was NEAR DEATH LOGIC)

2005-07-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
have Bf and Bf-f, so by the rule of modus ponens (worlds obey classical logic) we would have f in dead-end, but f is false in all world! Note that a characteristic formula of the near death multiverse was (~Bf - ~B(~Bf)), with the D modality, you can write it Dt - DBf, which you can read

Re: Stathis, Lee and the NEAR DEATH LOGIC

2005-07-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 17-juil.-05, à 11:07, Stathis Papaioannou wrote : Bruno, There's a lot to digest in this post. Take your time. No problem. I should clarify that in my original post I had in mind two different usages of the word death. One is what happens to you in destructive teleportation: you

RE: Stathis, Lee and the NEAR DEATH LOGIC

2005-07-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno, There's a lot to digest in this post. I should clarify that in my original post I had in mind two different usages of the word death. One is what happens to you in destructive teleportation: you vanish at one set of spacetime coordinates, then reappear in almost exactly the same

Re: Stathis, Lee and the NEAR DEATH LOGIC

2005-07-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
I clarify and progress a little bit. Then I jump a little bit. (Sorry for quoting myself) OBJECTION? Ah! but Lee could have build an objection by saying that in Stathis' theory we die, or can die, at each instant, or at each teleportation experiment. He told us this in its death thread

Stathis, Lee and the NEAR DEATH LOGIC

2005-07-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi, In this post I will try to make clearer my argument with Lee by using a minimal amount of modal logic (and so it's good revision ;) Then I will explain how Stathis seems to have (re)discovered, in its DEATH thread, what I call sometime The Smallest Theory of Life and Death, or Near

Re: death

2005-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 22-juin-05, à 15:05, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Hal Finney writes: I was trying to use Stathis' terminology when I wrote about the probability of dying. Actually I am now trying to use the ASSA and I don't have a very good idea about what it means to specify a subjective next moment.

Re: death

2005-06-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hal Finney writes: I was trying to use Stathis' terminology when I wrote about the probability of dying. Actually I am now trying to use the ASSA and I don't have a very good idea about what it means to specify a subjective next moment. I think ultimately it is up to each OM as to what it

Re: death

2005-06-22 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno Marchal writes:I will keep reading your posts hoping to make sense of it. Still I was about asking you if you were assuming the "multiverse context" or if you were hoping to extract (like me) the multiverse itself from the OMs. In which case, the current answer seems still rather hard to

Re: death

2005-06-21 Thread Jesse Mazer
Bruno Marchal wrote: Then in another post you just say: It's a bit hard for me to come up with a satisfactory answer to this problem, because I don't start from the assumption of a physical universe at all--like Bruno, I'm trying to start from a measure on observer-moments and hope that

Re: death

2005-06-21 Thread Hal Finney
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 20-juin-05, =E0 18:16, Hal Finney a =E9crit : That's true, from the pure OM perspective death doesn't make sense because OMs are timeless. I was trying to phrase things in terms of the observer model in my reply to Stathis. An OM wants to preserve the measure

Re: death

2005-06-20 Thread Hal Finney
that anything unusual had happened. How could the fact that B was present a day, a minute or a microsecond before A's death make any difference to A? All that matters is that B is in the correct state to provide continuity of consciousness when A is killed. Conversely, A and A's death cannot

Re: death

2005-06-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 19-juin-05, à 15:52, Hal Finney a écrit : I guess I would say, I would survive death via anything that does not reduce my measure. But if the measure is absolute and is bearing on the OMs, and if that is only determined by their (absolute) Kolmogorov complexity (modulo a constant

Re: death

2005-06-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
is there to provide the successor OM, and A need not even know that anything unusual had happened. How could the fact that B was present a day, a minute or a microsecond before A's death make any difference to A? All that matters is that B is in the correct state to provide continuity of consciousness when

Re: death

2005-06-20 Thread Hal Finney
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 19-juin-05, =E0 15:52, Hal Finney a =E9crit : I guess I would say, I would survive death via anything that does not reduce my measure. But if the measure is absolute and is bearing on the OMs, and if that=20 is only determined by their (absolute) Kolmogorov

Re: death

2005-06-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
state at the moment of death be duplicated somewhere. This is what is supposed to happen with teleportation: the subject is destructively analysed, killing him in the process, then the information sent to a receiving station where an exact (or close enough) copy of the subject is constructed from

Re: death

2005-06-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hal Finney writes: God creates someone with memories of a past life, lets him live for a day, then instantly and painlessly kills him. What would you say that he experiences? Would he notice his birth and death? I would generally apply the same answers to the 10^100 people who undergo

Re: death

2005-06-19 Thread Hal Finney
Stathis Papaioannou writes: Yes; hence, everyone is immortal. But leaving that much-debated issue aside for now, I'm not sure that I understand what, if anything, you would accept as a method of surviving the death of your physical body. Would you consider that scanning your brain

Re: death

2005-06-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hal Finney writes: I guess I would say, I would survive death via anything that does not reduce my measure. If I am stopped here, I should be started over there, or back then, or when such-and-such happens. If my measure is conserved then I can be happy. If it can be increased, I

death

2005-06-18 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hal Finney writes: God creates someone with memories of a past life, lets him live for a day, then instantly and painlessly kills him. What would you say that he experiences? Would he notice his birth and death? I would generally apply the same answers to the 10^100 people who undergo your

Re: death

2005-06-18 Thread rmiller
At 10:55 AM 6/18/2005, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: (snip) The above mechanism would still work even if, as in my thought experiment, there were 10^100 exact copies running in lockstep and all but one died. Each one of the 10^100-1 copies would experience continuity of consciousness through

Re: death

2005-06-18 Thread Hal Finney
Stathis Papaioannou writes: Hal Finney writes: God creates someone with memories of a past life, lets him live for a day, then instantly and painlessly kills him. What would you say that he experiences? Would he notice his birth and death? I would generally apply the same answers

Re: Fwd: why is death painful? - Validity and Morality of QS

1999-06-09 Thread Gilles HENRI
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Re: Fwd: why is death painful? - Validity and Morality of QS

1999-06-08 Thread Russell Standish
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RE: why is death painful?

1999-06-07 Thread Higgo James
- From: Wei Dai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: why is death painful? Should one make decisions based on objective or subjective consequences of his actions? By objective, I mean one should consider how one's actions affect

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