Hi Liz,
The guy was a computer sci dude before he shifted to philosophy. He's a phil prof at William Patterson University, in New Jersey, the States. He has downloadable papers at his Ericsteinhart.com website, and is view-able with short lectures, no longer than 7 minutes on Youtube, usually about 5 minutes. This is what makes his ideas so valid, I think, the compsci stuff, because increasing, the astronomers and physicists are getting down to explaining their discoveries with comp sci/math/ yadda yadda. I have butchered his ideas, to suit my own goals regarding mortality (he may not agree with me!) and intellectually, he is all over the place from atheism to pantheism to polytheism, to a sort of selective monotheism. Dude likes a form a Buddhism for himself His Revision theory of Resurrection is that your own life becomes a basis for a new one in a new universe, that's better, but no memories-identity passes through, but its better for your clone. I say, meh! Lose identity, lose leanings. This is also much closer in nature to Everett's MWI which splits our existence, as observers among electrons and photons. To that: By the way, how is Liz number 345,765,098,265 doing after she decided to move to Alaska, for the weather (blink blink!)?? Clones and more clones, meh! Steinhart has a much better answer (in my opinion) with his Promotion theory. He has analyzed what the cosmology would mean, for mind, conscious, the creator(s), and it breaks down to what Bruno likes, maths-arithmetic, cellular automata, programs, subroutines, processes, pipelines, promoting, data transfer, digital, analog, whatever else. He is not the first guy to think about this, Claude Shannon, Von Newmann, Conrad Zuse, Juergen Schmidhuber, Fredkin, Moravec, Tegmark, but he is perhaps the most logical, and thorough. Yes, he can be wrong, but for me, at the worst he may be like a broken wind up clock, correct at least twice per day. I think that after 6 or 7 billion people alive in one generation, we the people (species) may have an interesting and correct answer here. And yes, it's still above my intellectual pay grade. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 11:41 pm Subject: Re: The Object That all sounds very plausible to me. (Although sadly my pay grade doesn't match that fact.) -- 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. -- 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.
