On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Totally agree, Telmo, regarding communication. On the Bostrom concept of > Sims and, by extension, our reality being a sim, I like the concept, but in > a way, it seems too simple, Rather than life being an illusion, let us > conceive that its the result of a great program running and producing us as > a result. Moreover, our program can be either revised, copied, or both, > etc. This is one reason professor, Eric Steinhart's work seems compelling > to me. The following summary is available from his book, Your Digital > Afterlives, but here is a taste, from Steinhart's website- > > http://ericsteinhart.com/FLESH/flesh-chabs.html > > The best of these theories is Promotion, but Steinhart views his own idea > as flawed, because he wants it to be progressive rather then regressive. I > don't see the logical regression he seemed concerned about, He did come up > with Revision theory, as workable, however, these are merely, *better-off > clones* of ourselves, and miss the continuity, that infers identity. > Promotion is better, because it does exactly this, via pipelines, > processes, data transfers, as well as uploading and teleportation. This is > one reason I want to see if Ben Goetzel has an afterlife-resurrection > theory, because they both appeared to have come to the same conclusions, > independently, on several other concepts. > > Steinhart, like Goetzel, is a computationalist (digitalist) - (5 minute > video) > > https://youtube.com/devicesupport > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDB35y-5Z0> > > Please let me know if you uncover anything concerning Ben Goetzel's views. > Thanks. > "Revision" in this schema is copying with improvements. Provided that the changes don't remove big chunks of your memory and personality, why should that affect continuity? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
