Re: Platonic materialism

The Low Golden Willow (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:42:51 -0800 (PST)


On Feb 12, 12:17pm, Anders Sandberg wrote:

} > I'd rank the Linde scenario as the likeliest sounding, with Dyson
} > a close second, Tipler third, and Moravec/Egan fourth.

Tipler is Omega Point. Dyson is we keep on eking out our lives.
Moravec seems to be "copies of us will exist somewhere else". What's
Linde? We'll run away to basement universes?

It's weird to see ideas that make Tipler seem sane. I prefer to bet on
Dyson, myself.

Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix

Natural selection, the blind idiot suzerain of evolution.