X-Message-Number: 32907 References: <> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:19:34 -0500 Subject: Re: CryoNet #32903 - #32904 From: Freeposity <> From: Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:00:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Reason 2 Content-Language: en Why successful uploading is unlikely, ever. Reason 2. Bad physics. The simulation MUST be erroneous in some ways and >some degree, because the program necessarily is based on current knowledge >or guesses about physics, some of which is certainly wrong or incomplete, >and this will be true for a long time to come. The importance of these >errors is yet uncertain, but their existence is not. Remember that just about >all of the once-dominant "laws" of physics have eventually been shown to be >wrong, inaccurate or incomplete. >It continues to amaze me that most people not only have not considered >this fact, but do not acknowledge it even when told. >Robert Ettinger Such lovely bio bias is reminiscent of the following Sir John Erichsen (1873): "There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from its intrusions, at least in the surgeon's hands. That we have already, if not quite, reached these final limits, there can be little question. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." Freep "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32907