RE: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Mark Peaty writes: SP: 'Is there anything about how you are feeling to day that makes you sure that aliens didn't come during the night and replace your body with an exact copy? Because that is basically what happens naturally anyway, although it isn't aliens and it takes months rather

Re: The Meaning of [your] Life

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-janv.-07, à 19:48, Mark Peaty a écrit : Bruno, Stathis, Brent, Peter,Brent, Tom, Hal and others, I have to be very impertinent here and try to draw your attention to something you are just not getting. There is NO ultimate answer to the meaning of life, ... Assuming the digital

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 07-janv.-07, à 19:21, Brent Meeker a écrit : And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy of me that left out 90% of my memories - would it still be me? How much fidelity is required for Bruno's argument? I think not much. The argument does not depend at all

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi James, Le 08-janv.-07, à 02:04, James N Rose a écrit : Bruno, Please be patient for my reply to your question. I'll compose an answer soon on inertia and change of inertia and how I reached the notion of assigning that as the essential-primitive of Consciousness. Take your time. I am

Re: Evil ? (was: Hypostases (was: Natural Order Belief)

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-janv.-07, à 05:36, Tom Caylor a écrit : Do you recognize the problem of evil, and if so, what do you believe is the solution? Do you think that the MWI is the key to the solution? What or who is Jesus in the MWI? Is Jesus described by a quantum wave function? If yes, did God send

RE: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 07-janv.-07, à 19:21, Brent Meeker a écrit : And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy of me that left out 90% of my memories - would it still be me? How much fidelity is required for Bruno's argument? I think not much. The

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-janv.-07, à 14:27, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: Le 07-janv.-07, à 19:21, Brent Meeker a écrit : And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy of me that left out 90% of my memories - would it still be me? How much fidelity is

Re: Evil ? (was: Hypostases (was: Natural Order Belief)

2007-01-08 Thread John M
Interleaving in bold John - Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:55 AM Subject: RE: Evil ? (was: Hypostases (was: Natural Order Belief) Tom Caylor writes: ---SKIP Stathis Papaioannou:

Re: The Meaning of [your] Life

2007-01-08 Thread Mark Peaty
Bruno, 1. Thank you for responding. Of course I have no right to expect a response from anybody, but I was starting to just wonder if I HAD been a bit rude! :-) And of course now it serves me right if I can't understand some of what you have written ... 2. 'Assuming the

RE: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 07-janv.-07, à 19:21, Brent Meeker a écrit : And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy of me that left out 90% of my memories - would it still be me? How much fidelity is required for Bruno's argument? I think not much. The

RE: Evil ? (was: Hypostases (was: Natural Order Belief)

2007-01-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
John, We need to have some sort of system for sorting the wrong beliefs from the less-likely-to-be-wrong ones. This is what science tries to do, although of course it can never arrive at ultimate truth precisely because it has to be open to new evidence should it come along. But we have to

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-08 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 07-janv.-07, à 19:21, Brent Meeker a écrit : And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy of me that left out 90% of my memories - would it still be me? How much fidelity is required for Bruno's argument? I think not much. The argument