Re: Pascal's Wager

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Dec 08 1998 - 05:13:36 MST


"Zenarchy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:

> A Super Intelligence (or a Lao Tzu, or a Siddhartha Gautama) wins Pascal's
> Wager by becoming a god.

Very well put.

Is it just me, or doesn't it look like there is ample room for an
interesting synthesis of transhumanist thinking with some of the
eastern philosophical systems without having to throw important things
like critical thinking and empiricism overboard (as you often have to
do when trying it with western religions)?

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