From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 02:13:59 MDT
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.
-xx- Damien X-)
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