Eternal Life beckons

Saw an excellent programme on BBC iPlayer called "Did Darwin Kill God" which examined the relationship of Ultra-Darwinist's verses Intelligent Design.

A great number of points made, a few take away's include the Creationist's literal reading of the Bible only started in the 1930s after a monumental case trial (Scopes Monkey Trial) put Darwin against the Bible where there had been no conflict before - most Christians even before Darwin throughout its 2000 year history knew not to take the words of the Bible as science, and many of the leading geologists of the day had placed the age of the Earth at a least a few million years; and those Geologists were Anglican Priests.

There is also no reason that a belief in evolution necessitates atheism, despite what the Ultra Darwinists such as Dawkins will try to present otherwise, meme theory their greatest weapon in the attempt, which may come under attack by the Godel incompleteness theorem - meme theory may disprove God, but it also disproves itself, evolution and the rest of science! If anyone has a comment on this, please get in touch, I'm reserving judgement.

But I finish with this thought perhaps promopted by this program and the excellent movie, The Prestige, directed by the same guy who did Memento, another great film.



Many worlds theory gives us the notion that every possible consequence of the laws of Physics exists, but humans, or an observer, only experience one of these at the time.

We hear of disasters and experience loved ones die, but there is one thing we can never imagine, and that is death - the final visage of non-experience.

Do we live charmed lives? You reading this post could of died under a bus yesterday, but wouldn't be here reading this nonsense; the Universe in which you are dead exists, but is not remmebered in this Universe.

Will we all live until our body decays to death, our maximum lifespans, only halted by degrading cells and a will for life? Is faith the driving force that keeps this version of you which is alive from committing suicide?

I'm not explaining myself well, but needed to jot something down - but my idea on how we may all be lucky(?) enough to have eternal life:

As we near the Technological singularity it may be possible to download our experiences out of our bodies so our existence will never need to be given up due to an old worn out body.

Any accidents or fatal decisions that may kill the human typing out this blog post, there will always be one version of me in the future who will survive - the alive cat.

The "Live" cat version of me is the version of me I will always experience. At the very least, my lucky future self will have the same expereinces and memories of my life up to this point right now. As would a version of me that gets struck by lightning as I walk out of the door tonight.

ME/YOU/I/SELF I define as the survivor - not the unlucky ones. Its the maximum experience this bunch of organs, cells, atoms and quarks experiences over all space-time that is my full self.

Hmm. Its the motive of The Last Question and Tipler's Omega Point theory that speak to me after all these years still after reading them as a teenager.

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