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On 08/11/2011 09:24 PM, john clark wrote:
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<td valign="top">Back in 1993 Frank Tipler wrote an
interesting book called "The Physics of Immortality". In
2007 the poor man went a little funny in the head, you
know, just a little funny, and he went and did a silly
thing; he wrote another book saying we should look for
divine DNA on the Shroud of Turin and check for radiation
around the tomb of the Blessed Virgin Marry that was
caused by an intense beam of neutrinos that must have shot
out of the bottom of her feet as she ascended into heaven.
Anyway, in 1993 he still had all his marbles and he gave a
fairly plausible rough outline of how the universe might
be able to perform an infinite (not just very large)
number of calculations; to do that you'd need an infinite
(not just very large) amount of energy but he thought the
laws of physics and of cosmology were so constituted as to
allow for that. If you could perform an infinite number of
calculations then infinite subjective time is possible
even if objectively time comes to an end. <br>
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Well, even presuming infinite computation it does not follow that
any particular subject would get an infinite slice in order to
experience infinite subjective time. Nor does it follow that you or
I, recognizably such, would resurrect even given this highly
hypothetical infinite computation due to an order of infinities
issue. For you to resurrect it would be necessary for all the
supporting conditions for you to exist, not just the atoms in your
body, to spontaneously come together in one locale in this infinite
computational maelstrom. That would also have to be the case for
every other being that ever existed, ever will exist or ever could
exist in any possible configuration of a universe since neither you
nor a universe like ours are in no wise special if the argument
holds water. <br>
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Pretty thin hope for immortality and infinite personal vistas if you
ask me.<br>
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- samantha<br>
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