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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/10/2024 20:41, Daniel wrote:<br>
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On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Keith Henson wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;">post-birth
growth) a number of families stuck it out until a child was
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born, then moved back into the more attractive spirit world
tata to
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Another thought, without birth and death, could there be an
increased risk of stagnation?
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I think that this would be a new paradigm, and would need new
concepts. Our current ideas, and psychology, are based on our
biological evolution, and something like 'stagnation' makes sense in
that light. After a few decades or centuries in which uploading is
common, a different psychology and different ideas will inevitably
emerge.<br>
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What I'm saying is that "an increased risk of stagnation" could well
have no meaning (as in, it doesn't actually mean anything rather
than it means something that we disagree with, or reject), or mean
something different to an upload than what it currently means to us,
with its negative implication.<br>
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Even so, from my current perspective, I'd still say "no", for a
number of reasons. Birth plus death aren't the only drivers of
change and development, both socially and individually, and probably
aren't even the most significant ones.<br>
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Ben<br>
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