Re: Galaxy brain death

From: Tony B. Csoka (csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 13 1997 - 11:24:07 MDT


Anders Sandberg:

>Maybe this is an interesting alternative to death as total
>information-loss, death as merely the end of active change. As we
>die, we allow ourselves and out exoselves to be archived (as a whole
>or partially) for future study, reference or use. In some sense the
>dead are already in this state, archeologists and paleontologists are
>definitely getting information from them.

Yes, and there's a potentially huge amount of "archive" in the memories of
relatives and loved ones.

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Tony Benjamin Csoka



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