X-Message-Number: 25420
From: "Brook Norton" <>
Subject: Ettinger hints we may not survive
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:35:30 -0800

Bob Ettinger says in message 25413, "Again-- you survive (at least in part)
if there is  overlap--in matter, space, and time--between you and your early
successors or continuers. To deny this, it seems to me, would be to deny
that you  survive from day to day in the ordinary course of events."

 

Agreed. Not surviving, in any meaningful way, is the logical alternative. I
would encourage those who closely follow this survival thread to seriously
consider that survival is not the only logical reality. We don't insist that
a grain of sand or a beach survives, only that they change over time. What
makes a person intrinsically any different from any other physical object?
Why insist that one survives while the other doesn't? "Kirk, yield to the
logic of the situation."

 

All physical entities progress through time and change. That is the whole
proposition. No need to add the complexity of an appeal to survival. It is
certainly INTUITIVE that we survive day to day in the ordinary course of
events, but I have found very satisfactory explanations for the state of our
existence, by expanding upon the basic premise of existence without
survival.

 

Happy Holidays,

Brook



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