Hey Mr. Camel, It's somewhat off-topic as regards AGI, but I had a blog post on a related theme quite recently, which you may or may not have seen:
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2015/03/paranormal-phenomena-nonlocal-mind-and.html -- Ben On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:16 PM, justcamel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for that wonderful quote! Haha. > > p.s.: When I was writing about "death" I was referring to the physical death > of your body - there is no real death. Just like the player doesn't die when > Super Mario ends up in a lava pit. > > Through practice we become capable of staying conscious even during physical > death. Physical death just serves one purpose: It's a reset of the ego - a > recycling of consciousness (some call it reincarnation). It removes old > belief traps and dysfunctional states from the equation so that you (you > real "you" ... not your intellect ... the "you" you are during meditation) > can become profitable (more loving, more empathic, less inherent entropy) > again during your next life-time. It's a very smart process the overarching > evolutionary process came up with in order to facilitate (positive) > consciousness evolution. Physical death is a pruning mechanism ... and every > human being can learn to master it. > > Of course contemporary science can not accept this because most of academia > never actually trained their consciousness beyond the level of a spiritual > toddler. Unfortunately, the scientific method does not (yet) accept > consciousness as an interface (let alone as everything there > really/fundamentally exists). That's why it was amazing to read "everything > has consciousness" in your book ... coming from a "real" scientist. ;-) > > On 19.03.2015 10:54, Ben Goertzel wrote: >> >> I live in Hong Kong. The main religion here is money. > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
