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Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 17:52:22 EDT
Subject: Re: eternity

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For Francois:

Good luck, but I think you'll not succeed because to get to infinity by 
summing up finite steps you need an infinite number of such steps. And if you 
fall at one, you are gone. If there is a finite probability of such a 
breakdown in the chain, then the infinite product of such probabilities will 
doom you with certainty.

Assume for example that cryonics has a 99.9999999999999999... percent success 
rate and that is the standard success probability from a step to the next. 
You could have a very long life but not eternity.

By the way, the brain reader is not an alternative to cryonics, it is a way 
to get out of that state, so it is a way to make it works. It is an 
alternative to nanotech yet.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

> Cryonics may be a way to do it, the brain
> scanner you are attempting to build may be another. But this will only be
> the first step. I will deal with the next one if and when I get there, and
> then the next one, and the next one after that. And I guess I will be doing
> that forever. Isn't that what eternal life is all about?
> 
> Francois
> 


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