From: Kalkor (kalkor@kalkor.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 13:29:20 MST
All of the above! The first step, in the story, was full cloning of the
subject's body, and then a head-transplant operation... That being an
intermediate step in the quest to stop the process of aging, and work on
other means of SELF-transfer, in the event of violent accidents or
whatnot...
The deregulation of the healthcare and health-research industries were the
catalyst for this, the theory being that once governmental intrusion was
removed, progress could happen as fast as it has in the last 2 decades in
computers.
At the same time, work was being done on moving to the moon, mars, and
asteroids... so the cataclysm would have to be very widespread to cause an
extinction.
I agree on the point of the UFT... but I'm also certain (in my
agnostic/athiest way) that someone/thing created that UFT to begin with, or
it wouldn't be there for us to discover.
Kalkor
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Yash
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 1:07 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: The universe
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.
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