[Merged] Immortality & Bayesian Statistics

[Giordano]

Jabba,

Weren't you going to prove something here? Wasn't that your promise in regard to your definition of the "self" and immortality? Or at least you were going to attempt to prove it?

I may have missed it: where is your undebunked proof and/or evidence?

 

[Garrette]

Jabba,

Weren't you going to prove anything here? Isn't that your promise in regard to your definition of the "self" and immortality? Or at least you will attempt to prove it?

I may have missed it: where is your undebunked proof or evidence?

It is where it has always been: If we will but grant him the premise that everyone has a soul and that the soul is immortal then he will have proven it. The math, the philosophy, the epiphanies, the lists -- they are all just trappings.

 

[Mojo]

- As for Dr. Blackmore, she hasn't responded to my second message, but as she doesn't say anything personal in her first response, I can't believe that she would mind me sharing that response with you guys.

Endless reconstructions depending on what you're doing, mindfulness etc. A self is constructed as needed and then falls away again. The illusion is that it's the same self all through your life. I've written lots about this e.g. A very short introduction to consciousness

Here you go Jabba: http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-A-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0192805851

10 Buy it.

20 Wait for it to arrive.

30 Read it.

40 If you don't understand it, goto 30.

 

[Sideroxylon]

There is no way that I'd be asking her another question without reading the book.

 

[AdMan]

There is no way that I'd be asking her another question without reading the book.

Jabba does not have time to read it--he'll soon be asking if someone can summarize it or highlight the relevant parts for him.

 

[Akhenaten]

I've heard that all that's necessary is to read the dust jacket, although it wasn't from a very reliable source.

 

[Loss Leader]

Quantum!


/end thread

 

[Aepervius]

Every time I think we have reached a new low, I see there is still place to descend...
This thread remind me of "Abyss"...

 

[John Jones]

Jabba does not have time to read it--[HILIGHT]he'll soon be asking if someone[/HILITE] can summarize it or highlight the relevant parts for him.

Dr. Blackmore herself, if my guess is right.

 

[Monza]

Quantum!


/end thread

Wishful thinking. Jabba hopes to prove immortality by starting a thread that will never end.

 

[Slowvehicle]

Good Evening, Mr. Savage!

I do wish you had deigned to address a few actual questions before you took the day off.

[dread Pirate Roberts] You'll likely do so tomorrow... [/dread Pirate Roberts]

 

[carlitos]

It's Easter weekend. I suggest that Jabba and everyone else take the weekend off. This thread needs a break.

 

[Akhenaten]

 

[Slowvehicle]

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Thank you, Mighty One (may you post forever!) for furthering the disc-ussion....

 

[carlitos]

happy easter



Mrs. carlito throws out the salad remnants for our local bunnies. Neighbors aren't super happy, but I find it charming.

 

[Akhenaten]

Mrs. carlito throws out the salad remnants for our local bunnies. Neighbors aren't super happy, but I find it charming.

P(NR|bunnies & salad) = P(bunnies|NR)P(NR|salad) / (P(bunnies|NR)P(NR|salad) + P(bunnies|R)P(R|salad))​

All is well.

 

[carlitos]

Given that new bunnies arrive in the yard every year around Eastertime, might one conclude that bunnies are immortal?

 

[Akhenaten]

Given further that the number of potential bunnies is essentially infinite, I'd say so.

 

[Giordano]

It is the song that never ends
Yes, it goes on and on my friend...
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue singing it forever just because . .

 

[pakeha]

I've just returned home from a strange and wonderful excursion into the world of Spanish devotional fervour.

I turn on the telly and find
The Ten Commandments

They don't make movies like this nowadays [/sigh]