From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 00:15:02 MST
J. R. Molloy wrote:
> From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
>
>>even if
>>the universe turns out to have some nasty properties making the future
>>of life finite, that is still not the end. There is meaning in the
>>finite too.
>>
>
> There is one thing worse than feeling "it's over"
> and that is wishing for it to be over.
> The meaning in the finite may be the wish for an end to it all, because the
> alternative, that life goes on forever, may be too horrible for old brains to
> contemplate.
> Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
> but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
> (Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
>
If so then it's Sims "all they way down"!
- samantha
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