X-Message-Number: 24641
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:58:47 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Re: Mind-Body

Robert Ettinger writes in part:



>Some of the frontiersmen of science/philosophy (readers here will think of
>Mike Perry) also postulate what might be called "souls", albeit not in the
>traditional religious sense. They believe that "you" are basically your 
>pattern
>or software, a particular body of information. This has profound 
>consequences,
>  including the distinction (if any) between embodied or instantiated
>information  and potential or abstract information. It is a kind of 
>updated Platonism.
>
>I discuss this at length in Youniverse (which should be ready by the end of
>this year). My conclusion is that this notion is probably both wrong and
>counterproductive.
>


We should be having a discussion about this issue, when the time is right, 
at the Society for Universal Immortalism Website. Everyone is invited to 
join in our discussions and debates. Membership is not required and we 
welcome people with different points of view. To join in simply go to 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/universalimmortalism/ and click the 'Join 
this Group' button. The mailing list is not moderated and we value 
everyone's input.

Mike Perry, Tripper McCarthy.




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