At 25 Feb 1999 19:37:40 +0100, you wrote:
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>ASpidle@aol.com writes:
>[human-to-Borg-to-God scenario]
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>> At this point it/they is/are God. Sort of
>> like the Borg with firewalls, and much better looking. More like the Q
>> Continuum.
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>I buy this. This sounds like a great future, well worth striving
>for. The danger is thinking it is inevitable - if we do that, then we
>think that we don't need to do much, and eventually nothing gets
>done. But if we see it as a goal, something noble to strive for (in
>its many varieties) in a rational manner, then we have a chance of
>getting there.
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>> Having control of time means that God is operating now and was
>> operating in the past, therefore we can gain knowledge of God by
>> studying the nature of the universe. This study I say is worship,
>> and is the only worship God expects. He most certainly doesn't
>> expect us to prostrate ourselves at his feet.
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>This is the part I don't buy. Note that you assume time travel, which
>is a rather big assumption, and also that God will exist in this way,
>which is another big assumption. It would be nice if it was true, but
>there are no particular reasons to think that these assumptions hold
>true.
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>> In fact. I believe God expects us to join the community of gods that is God,
>> when we're good enough, when we deserve it. Frank Tipler tells us how we can
>> all be brought back to life in the massive computers of the future. I don't
>> think the Omega Point is integral to this theory, so it doesn't matter if the
>> Universe will crunch or not.
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>Well, Tipler did manage to show some interesting limitations on
>posthuman omniintelligences (or whatever to call the things that are
>SI to SIs), and without an OP they will still be finite - immense, but
>with a finite lifetime, computational ability and memory. On the other
>hand, if you allow time travel you can likely do tricks that make the
>Bekenstein bound break.. but it is a big assumption to make.
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>> God is our descendent and his nature is an extension of ours.
>> We must be worthy!
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>And Man created God in his image who created Man in his image who
>created..
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>Ah, The Church of the Fixed Point: our reality and human nature is the
>only consistent fixed point for the above process. The Church spends
>lots of time iterating immense dynamical systems on the holy computers
>trying to calculate the parameters of love, truth and sacredness. They
>have already found truth to two decimal places..
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>:-)
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher