In a message dated 9/21/00 7:22:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au writes:
<< That idea was advanced quite seriously (I think) by Sir Fred Hoyle in THE
INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE, who appears to believe that life and we are/were/will
be bootstrapped by a cosmic Mind coalescing in the deep future and acting
backward through time.
Damien Broderick
>>
As many of our list members already know, Sir Fred was the fellow who
derisively, termed the cosmic expansion theory by Gamow and Alpher, as the
Big Bang. He was a Steady Stater, like Einstein originally was. A more formal
supporter of the an observer (of any type) being essential to the universe is
Nobelist, John Archebald Wheeler, at the University of Texas. How about a
straw poll? Does any of what Mr. Broderick has described, provide any
consolation to you personally? Are us the consensus here that some here will
not actually perish, because we will be frozen or uploaded or both?
-Mitch
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