MEMO COPY in re The Meaning of Life

[Kent Paul Dolan]

in talk.origins, Walter Bushell wrote:
> Kent Paul Dolan <xant...@well.com> wrote:

>> Okay, this is pretty silly:

>> http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/

>> Of course, with the game plan of reproducing far
>> more offspring than can survive to reproduce in
>> their turn, life is pretty much a fast collapsing
>> Ponzi scheme anyway.

> It's been going on for billions of years according
> to all the appearances.

That doesn't make it any less a Ponzi scheme, whose
main characteristic is that it attracts far more
investors than can be reasonably expected to profit
by participating in it.

The finite pool of investors, in a Ponzi scheme, the
finite pool of individual ecological niches capable
of supporting individual organisms, in life, limits
the profit to only a small fraction of those
entities attempting to participate.

> Of course, since the Universe is recreated every
> billionth of a second the past is prolog and the
> future is exponential.

"Exponential?" That word doesn't mean what you think
it does. Sure, the universe has a factorial
expansion of partile interaction possibilities with
each passing Planck time interval, but like a Ponzi
scheme, the collapsing wave forms eliminate all but
one of those "potential players" just as fast as
time goes forward.

xanthian.