[extropy-chat] Death

[Dirk Bruere]

Keith Henson wrote:

> At 12:50 PM 14/06/05 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> Some of you know that I have been caregiver to my long term friend
>> and roommate Michael who was terminally ill.  This morning he died.
>
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>>  It was  like a switch simply turned off.
>
>
> In my view humans have spirits, that's what we interact with.  So do 
> dogs and cats.  So do computers running an OS on them.  Where does the 
> spirit of the OS go when you turn off the power?  It is just *gone.*
>
A spirit, or soul, is an information construct.
As for where it goes, it need not go anywhere since it has at least a 4D 
worldline (or tree if you're into MWI of QM).

-- 
Dirk

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