On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:02:02PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > I don't think it is possible to define personal discontinuation (death) in > terms of a local event or configuration that is setup in some corner of a > universe. > > For instance, if the universe is infinitely big, one could recur infinitely > often in an infinite number of places. Without taking into account what > happens in (in the past or future), one cannot say definitively that the cat > will never be resurrected. In fact, one cannot rule > out resurrection without knowing what happens even in altogether different > universes. > > Given this, it seems senseless to use the concept of "no cul de sac" in > regards to worlds. In some places of some worlds a person either dies or > doesn't; but its not possible to set things up such that someone dies in all > their futures, without being able to control everything that happens > throughout all of reality. > > Jason
This is an argument from incredulity in favour of the "no cul de sac conjecture". It is not a rigourous proof, AFAICT. BTW - I'm not disagreeing with you - just stating that you don't have a proof. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
