X-Message-Number: 19917 From: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:49:52 EDT Subject: Re: #19855 immortality --part1_16e.12bcd2e6.2a9ba820_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Francois said: > Biological immortality can only be seen as a temporary stepping stone to a > different realm of existence. > > Francois > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > No lifespan shorter than eternity is acceptable > --------------------------------------------------------------------- No lifeespan shorter... Well, assume that is biologically possible, lifespan would be limited to some millenia by accidents and predators. Our lifespan is defined by predation level encountered by our ancestors. That was a big cat predation, now our predators are the car and politicians (who make wars). Machine based life may have different meaning: If it is hard wired, its evolution realm is more limited than a biology based system (biological systems may be the most evolution enabled of all hard wired systems). If it is a software in a plateform independant system, it is another matter. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_16e.12bcd2e6.2a9ba820_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19917