On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:09:32AM +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Making it aware, alive. A good thing, no? > > Intrinsically good? Only as a matter of faith. If you believe more is
Spelling out the obvious: of course if you happen to share my local value system. YMMV. > better, perhaps so, but destruction is required for new creation to How do you define destruction? I believe a nucleation punctuated-equilibrium event will maximize the amount of destruction/creation in a relativistic universe (and possibly, in the metaverse). > arise. I'm not sure I believe that the unlimited expansion of anything > is inherently "good." Good as in "you like?".