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> Actually, I have no fucking clue what kind of mindset wants to live forever. The kind of mindset capable of performing induction over the positive integers.
by loup-vaillant 13y ago
> Actually, I have no fucking clue what kind of mindset wants to live forever.
The kind of mindset capable of performing induction over the positive integers. For me, today was a good day. I want to live until tomorrow, at least, and I want tomorrow to be at least as good.
Therefore, I want to live forever, or at least as long as reasonably possible.
- melange 13y agoI.e. People who think they are machines want to live forever?
- loup-vaillant 13y agoYour straw man doesn't work. In a trivial sense, we are machines. There's nothing magic between quantum mechanics and a fully functional brain. Our soul is material, made up of neurons and other cells. Just like a man-made machine, we are physical processes. We're just much better at self reference than the machines we build.
- melange 13y agoYou've contradicted the statement that you made elsewhere - that it's the arrangement of atoms that matters. There's nothing magical about the processes, but the specific state matters.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoAn arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a physical process. I don't see the contradiction.
- melange 13y agoAn arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a small part of a physical process with arbitrary boundaries drawn around it.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoThe boundaries are not arbitrary, to the extent we can factor the configuration space. For instance, we can draw a rather sharp limit between me, and the keyboard I'm typing with.
- melange 13y agoAnd what does that particular choice of boundary represent?