On 27 March 2014 21:26, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > On 26 Mar 2014, at 23:26, LizR wrote: > > On 27 March 2014 10:30, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Unless you allow brains to grow infinitely big, there are only a finite >> number of possible brains even in an infinite universe. >> >> With sufficiently advanced technology (e.g. uploading yourself to a > digital brain), the upper limit on your brain size is theoretically > unbounded, except perhaps by cosmological considerations. Prepare to join > the Overmind... > > Hmm, I can understand that you put your physicalist hat (because it is a > day with a "T"!), but here you put both the physicalist hat, and the comp > hat. > Should I infer that every day with a "T", you are inconsistent? >
Well this assumes physical supervenience I think, but so did Stathis, I think, so I was responding in kind. One could posit not "uploading" as such but adding more and more digital implants and so on that eventually one can throw out the "organic core" when it dies, and continue to exist in the implants. Whether this is "you" or not being another question. But anyway, yes, I'm sure you can assume I'm inconsistent some of the time! > > Note that being immortal by having a growing brain might not be funny, and > once immortal, people will love "forgetting" and resetting their mind. To > much souvenirs might be heavy to support. When human will be > technologically immortal they might regret it and have a strong nostalgia > of death and amnesia. > The eternal sunshine....indeed. If brain size is finite then resetting, or erasing memories at least, becomes necessary eventually if one is to have (and remember) new experiences. To quote some schoolboy, "please sir, can I stop now, my brain is full!" > In buddhist term, terrestrial or technological immortality might only be a > manner to prevent the nirvana, and to pursue our staying in the samsara > forever. Then you can develop an infinite karma making harder and harder to > get the nirvana and a pacified soul. > > Well that's true, in Buddhist terms... is there any correspondence between Buddhism and comp? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
