RE: Extra Terrestrials

2000-08-18 Thread Marchal
James Higgo wrote: > ... >All that exists of 'you' is this very current thought. Whle >'the measure of some objective George Levy' is meaningless, 'the measure of >this thought' is a vaild concept; I'm not sure what you can do to increase >or decrease that. An interesting area is the categorisati

anthropic thinking

2000-08-18 Thread Higgo James
An aside for Nick Bostrom: I belive we must apply anthropic reasoning not to people - they don't exist objectively - but to thoughts. An interesting point is that all thoughts about anthropic reasoning include something along the lines of , 'this is a thought about anthropic reasoning'. Why is