On 11/3/2015 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Well, in machine's theology, the proof of the immortality of the soul by Socrates is valid, but is not constructive, and its practical aspect is dependent of you degree of appreciation of not knowing who you (first person are). Then, a priori computationalist immortality seems to be something more to fear than to hope, but both computer science and salvia can be reassuring by allowing possibilities of jumps between type of consciousness state (but *that* is still wishful thinking, as such jump are hard to relate with some type of death. Once a machine is above the Gödel-Löbian treshold, it has at each instant an infinite of futures,
Why not infinite pasts? Fundamental physics is time symmetric and your theory of the UD doesn't have any built-in arrow of time.
and near death or near catastrophes, it continues in the closer world consistent with its memory. If the subject identifies too much with its memory, the experience can be unpleasant. Some training in "let it go" can help, perhaps.
In what sense can "you" continue without memories of who you are? Losing memories causes profound and disturbing changes in personality. My father died of Alzheimers and he was a very different person, almost a non-person, the last years of his life.
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