Logos01 comments on Greg Linster on the beauty of death - Less Wrong Discussion
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I fail to recognize any reason why this would be relevant or interesting to this conversation. It's trivially true, and addresses no point of mine, that's for certain.
... what in the blazes is this supposed to be communicating? It's a trivially true statement, and informs absolutely nothing that I can detect towards the cause of explaining where or how "non-local physics" comes into the picture.
Would you care to take a stab at actually expounding on your claim of the necessity of believing in this "non-local physics" you speak of, and furthermore explaining what this "non-local physics" even is? So far, you keep going in many different directions, none of which even remotely address that issue.
Sure, it means that one can't construct a brain by having signals go infinitely fast, the local means that to get from somewhere to somewhere else one has to go through intermediary space. It was a caveat I introduced because I thought it might be needed, but it really wasn't. My main point is that I don't think a person could be infinitely tortured by being frozen in torture, which leads to the interesting point that people shouldn't be identified with objects in single moments of time, such as bodies, but with their bodies/experience going through time.
I guess I've gotten to used to the notion of human identity and consciousness being an emergent pattern rather than specific physical objects.