From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 09:28:13 MDT
>From: Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu>
>On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:00:21PM -0700, Zero Powers wrote:
> > >From: Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu>
>
> > >The material world seems destined to die. The cybergnostic may be
>striving
> > >for a practical benefit of real immortality, believing "pure
>information"
> > >can be eternal.
> >
> > Pure information, it seems to me, can't be any more ethereal than energy
>and
> > given the equivolency of energy and matter I don't see that information
>can
> > exist absent at least a little bit of material. In short, I don't see
>how
> > information can be any more eternal than matter.
>
>Yes. But I was explaining a cybergnostic desire other than simple purity
>or
>self-revulsion.
>
>And there's Permutation City for one (flawed) attempt at materalist
>cybergnosticism.
And _Diaspora_ for another (less flawed) attempt.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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