Re: Living Forever

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 03:24:50 MDT


On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:24:19PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> There's nothing more uncomfortable than building your theodicy on the wrong
> shaped spacetime.

At least it is falsifiable.

Hmm, topological theology - the science of what gods and moral systems
are possible in spacetimes of different topology. "Oh, this is a
non-orientable universe, so dualism is not consistent. But the genus is
sufficiently negative to enable deontological ethics, at least in a
linearized sense."

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