Re: [sl4] Is belief in immortality computable?

From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 21:52:35 MDT

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On Tue, 19 May 2009 "Matt Mahoney"
<matmahoney@yahoo.com> said:

> The question of immortality is physics.

Yes.

> The question of belief in immortality is mathematics.

Totally untrue. Billions of people are absolutely certain of immortality
and a significant portion of them couldn't add seven to six. Being
certain is easy, being correct is hard.

John K Clark

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