Re: on formally indescribable merde

From: James Higgo <j.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:49:04 -0000

That's what happens when you can't let go of the idea of self.
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From: Michael Rosefield <Michael.D.Rosefield.domain.name.hidden>
To: James Higgo <j.domain.name.hidden>; <GLevy.domain.name.hidden.net>;
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: on formally indescribable merde


> > From: "James Higgo" <j.domain.name.hidden>
>
> > So what is it, this mystical soul, that 'transits' OMs?
>
> The more I think about this, the more I end up running around in
circles....
>
> I think the transit is just a hypothetical one; _if_ OMa iterated to OMb,
it
> would be consistent.
>
> However, I cannot help but feel that consciousness isn't an instantaneous
> thing. Vague, I know, but it does seem to be a process. Only when OM's are
> linked together do they make "sense". I think perhaps we don't need to
throw
> out time; a Many Worlds type static universe is, perhaps, simpler to
> implement than the minds it contains.
>
> Damn, I wish _I_ made sense....
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