From: Yash (yashk2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 02:07:17 MST
I alwyas think about such things this way:
When you say "Biological Immortality", does it take into account the
environment and its quirks or are you just using the species as a frame of
reference.
Detailed:
1. We do achieve biological immortality by succeeding in stopping ageing
completely.
2. A large asteroid successfully hits home, extinguishing us, immortality
and all.
See what I mean? Today, our Neo-Darwinian theories do not all take into
account that part
of Science which the Neo-Darwinians like to call 'Catastrophism'.
They're too busy in the Gradualists vs Saltationists (e.g. Dennet vs Gould)
fight and/or the Scientists vs Creationists fight (e.g. Dawkins vs all
religions).
Instead they should spend more of their time unifying fields.
Well done Physicists, UFT is the way to go.
Yash.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Kalkor
Ok, here's something from neo-tech that I'd like to discuss with you
folks... In the story one of the students becomes a nobel-winning physicist,
and he comes up with this while in the class:
What are the odds that, given the apparent age and size of the universe, an
intelligent species evolved early on, as rapidly as we have during the last
few thousand years? If so, would it not follow that this civilization is
millions or even billions of years old? Would they not have achieved
biological immortality by now, and probably technology sufficient to control
much of the universe, and in fact the fundamental physical laws behind the
universe? Would not, then, the controlling factors of reality be mass,
energy, and conciousness, rather than simply mass and energy? Would this be
sufficient to explain dark matter?
Ah, a direct quote would have been better but I wanted to see how well I was
able to grasp the subject and regurgitate it in my own words. What do you
virians think of this idea? Far fetched? Off the point? Relevant? Immutable?
Kalkor
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