[extropy-chat] Death is irreversible v.1.1

Heartland velvet977 at hotmail.com
Wed May 10 21:00:18 UTC 2006


> Heartland: [stating an axiom]
>>2. Physical activity necessarily requires matter, and that activity *itself* 
>>cannot
>>be stored in static information. (Shown in step (2) of the argument).
>>[...]
>>This, in turn, leads to:
>>[...]
>>And if so, then an absence of an instance is irreversible and no amount of static
>>information that remains about that instance can bring that instance back from
>>nonexistence.

Eric:
> But you basically assumed this above!  This is a circular argument.

The conclusion is that death is irreversible. Do I assume that in (2)?

S.



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