On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, now I do see the smiley, :-) But it deserves a serious<br>answer. What TheMan clearly means is that either a huge number<br>or even most people may join a group mind.</blockquote><div><br>Well, I took him to mean that practically everyone will join, that the number who don't will be small enough that the group mind will be where it's at; the serious intent behind my comment was that if someone who abhors this idea is that easy to find, there'll likely be substantial numbers of people who don't so choose. If there are also substantial numbers of people who do, that's fine with me; once we get off this planet we'll have a universe plenty big enough to allow diversity.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My eternally made point is that you can do both: if you truly<br>believe that physics is a better description that your own intuitions,
<br>and your own evolutionarily evolved feelings of anticipation, then<br>you believe that you can be in two places at once, and you further<br>see that you obviously can choose both to go and to stay.</blockquote><div><br>
Certainly. </div></div>