X-Message-Number: 28613 From: Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:51:04 EST Subject: infinity, chemistry Chris Manning writes that death is inevitable in infinite time. Not that this is important, but it's not strictly correct. If the chance of death in a given time frame declines fast enough, the chance of eventual death can be less than unity. Also, we could eventually be individually distributed over large volumes. Also, the Second Law does not guarantee eventual oblivion, for reasons I won't detail here unless requested. Alan Mole points out that we should eventually have control over our emotions, by various means including drugs. For a full view of this, see Pearce's THE HEDONISTIC IMPERATIVE at hedweb.com R.E. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28613