>"I’ve been talking of the ultimate God (the cosmic operating system, aka Mind at Large" [...] The cosmic operating system is alive and aware, or better super alive and super aware, and computes above and beyond what we call time.
I like your term "cosmic operating system", but I think it's a mistake to equate that to the traditional concept of God. The Cosmic Operating System is not a person or even a super person, it need not be conscious or intelligent and it might operate the universe but not have created the universe. The existence of the universe might turn out to be a logical necessity because "nothingness" is unstable.
> "We need, or at least I need, a concept of life after death that is solid enough to suspend disbelief. Without such a concept of life after death I would fall into the deepest state of paralyzing despair, and jump off the closest window to exit this unpleasant game but God is not enough".
As far as life after death is concerned, the idea of an invisible man in the sky does not give me any comfort or hope, especially not a God as unpleasant as the Christian or Muslim God. The existence of God is not necessary or sufficient for life after death, but the fact that quantum mechanics says information cannot be destroyed because everything evolves according to the Schrodinger equation in a reversible deterministic way is a little more interesting; of course quantum mechanics could turn out to be wrong about that but I sorta doubt it, so it gives me a little hope. Not a lot but a little. That's why I'm going to have my brain frozen to liquid nitrogen temperatures when I die. I want the information that makes me be me be scrambled as little as possible. I want to make it as easy as I can for your cosmic operating system.
> "and penultimate God-like cosmic engineers"
I don't think such cosmic engineers exist in the observable universe… at least not yet. I believe that if someday we build a Jupiter brain and then ask it "does God exist?" His reply will be "He does now".
> "I guess there is a high degree of entanglement between persons who love the same people, do the same things, or have similar thoughts and feelings,
Quantum entanglement is a real thing and there is even a theory that the geometry of spacetime is the product of the quantum entanglement of information and there's some sort of correlation between spatial distance and entanglement, but so far it's just a theory, or maybe a theory for a theory.
> and that entanglement propagates in time.
Your sort of entanglement and quantum entanglement do have that in common.
> "I don’t think technological resurrection needs a perfect copy of a quantum state."
I think that is a virtual certainty, otherwise you'd become a different person many trillions of times every second, every time an air molecule bumped into you and changed the quantum state of your body.
John K Clark
>< "If technological resurrection needs a perfect copy of a quantum state] you'd become a different person many trillions of times every second"
> "This contradicts what you just said about deterministic evolution".
> "The quantum state (of you + the environment) evolves deterministically and contains all those changes."
>"But we agree that technological resurrection does not need a perfect copy of a quantum state."
>>< "I believe that if someday we build a Jupiter brain [-> God]...>"
> "What if some alien civilization has already done so?"
In Chapter 8 I argued that the cosmic operating system is not less
than personal, but more than personal. If the cosmic operating system
is super alive, super conscious and super intelligent, then cosmic
operating system = God.
You have it easier than me! I don't think that everything evolves in a
reversible deterministic way (not in the Laplacian sense at least, see
chapters on libertarian determinism and Gödel), so building hope is
more difficult for me. But I've done it!
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<...all you'd need is a glance into the night sky.>
>> "But perhaps they are subtler than that. Note that we observe wild
animals with cameras hidden inside decoys that look & smell like one
of them, and I've seen videos that suggest the animals think a decoy
is one of them. Sure our super aliens are at least that smart."
><...billions of stars are radiating all their energy uselessly into nfinite space....>
> "Billions do, but perhaps millions (or thousands) don't."
> They are talking of Tabby's star...
> "They could extract energy from the quantum vacuum (zero point field
and all that). Perhaps their astroengineering consists of giant
utility fogs that fill entire stellar systems and condensate to do
things where and when needed. Perhaps they have left matter as we know
behind and live as blobs of thinking quantum fields"

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM Giulio Prisco <giu...@gmail.com> wrote:
><...billions of stars are radiating all their energy uselessly into nfinite space....>
> "Billions do, but perhaps millions (or thousands) don't."
I could explain the existence of no Dyson spheres in the Milky Way, and I could explain the existence of many billions, but I could not explain the existence of just a few thousand; the idea that we just happen to exist during the tiny sliver of time in which that would be the case seems too improbable to consider.
> They are talking of Tabby's star...
I think dust could explain the Tabby star observations much better and certainly more simply than ET can. It's mind boggling to suppose that we are alone in the universe, and it's mind boggling to suppose that we are not, but one of those things must be true, and I think one of them is significantly more likely than the other.
> "They could extract energy from the quantum vacuum (zero point field
and all that). Perhaps their astroengineering consists of giant
utility fogs that fill entire stellar systems and condensate to do
things where and when needed. Perhaps they have left matter as we know
behind and live as blobs of thinking quantum fields"
And perhaps a simpler explanation is that ET does not exist because we are the first, after all the observable universe is finite in both space and time so somebody's got to be first.
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hwk
<...the galaxy WILL be engineered in the near future, by that I mean
in less than 50 million years.>
I think so, too!
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Under such a supposition of zillions of copies of you, being the Sean Carroll objection against 'immortality,' my reply is. "Good enough for Government work." The second thought is, screw it, we don't run the show, so go out an have a pizza. be grateful that you survived for the most part.. Beggars can't be choosers, and that the presentation led by A. Strominger some years ago (Presented by Dr. P. back in 2019 June) indicates that the Universe has Memory function, Database Fans! It is the interaction of photons and gravity, Also, this was Hawkings last paper in the collection. Color me a sentimentalist.
On Friday, March 22, 2024 at 09:31:33 AM EDT, John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Giulio
>< "If technological resurrection needs a perfect copy of a quantum state] you'd become a different person many trillions of times every second"> "This contradicts what you just said about deterministic evolution".
I don't see the contradiction. Yes it's possible, even probable, that a single air molecule bumping into you could change you enough that one year from now your history and your conscious experience will be very different from what it would've been if that particular air molecule had not bumped into you, but that doesn't change the fact that right now, at the instant the air molecule hit you, your conscious experience will not have changed nor would that of anybody else. And if Hugh Everett's Many Worlds idea is basically correct, which I think it probably is, then "you" DO split trillions of times every second and they will all eventually have different histories, but NOT at the instant of the split. Up until that instant they all will have had identical conscious experiences, and it would be nonsensical to ask which one is really "you". They would all have an equal right to call themselves Giulio Prisco.
>> And perhaps a simpler explanation is that ET does not exist because we are the first, after all the observable universe is finite in both space and time so somebody's got to be first.
> "It's simpler to suppose that all technological civilizations that could beam EM signals out hundreds of light years (which we can't yet)"
> are more than hundreds of light years apart
> "and having reached that same conclusion decided to pursue knowledge by other means."
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><And perhaps a simpler explanation is that ET does not exist because
we are the first...>
> "I can't disagree because you said the magic word: perhaps."
>> As I've said before, to pursue knowledge you need a brain and to operate a brain you need energy; and in this galaxy alone hundreds of billions of stars are radiating all their energy uselessly into infinite space. And all the other galaxies that we can observe are doing the same thing. Don't you find that odd?> "It depends if it was the only and easiest way to achieve it... who knows what we don't know, because we don't observe something constrained by our own knowledge doesn't mean anything, nothing to conclude from this non observation of an entire universe filled of dyson sphere."