<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Suppose that you do achieve a fixed gargantuan size, and become<br>(from our point of view now) an incredibly advanced creature.<br>Even *that*, however, could be miniscule compared to what<br>will be possible even later.
<br></blockquote></div><br>Satisfaction need not be directly related to size or quantity, even if it turns out that maximal pleasure is. You could just decide at some point to be perfectly satisfied with what you have, in which case it won't worry you that your neighbour's brain is ten times the size of your own. I think advanced beings would come to a decision to stop growing, or at least slow down at some point, even if only because they will otherwise eventually come into conflict with each other.
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou