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Has some similarity to Tipler's "omega point" hypothesis iin his 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality" [1]. I read this years ago but have recently bought it a
by sherr 2y ago
Has some similarity to Tipler's "omega point" hypothesis iin his 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality" [1]. I read this years ago but have recently bought it again to have another look at. It seems to be a PDF on the Internet Archive as well. It was a very wild idea.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler
- lioeters 2y agoI like it. I've read about the original concept by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest. This seems to give it a more sci-fi twist, including simulated universes and bringing back the dead. > According to [Frank Tipler], it is required, for the known laws of physics to be consistent, that intelligent life take over all matter in the universe and eventually force its collapse. > During that collapse, the computational capacity of the universe diverges to infinity, and environments emulated with that computational capacity last for an infinite duration as the universe attains a cosmological singularity. > With computational resources diverging to infinity, Tipler states that a society in the far future would be able to resurrect the dead by emulating alternative universes. > Tipler identifies the Omega Point with God, since, in his view, the Omega Point has all the properties of God claimed by most traditional religions.