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Sep 15, 2021Liked by Giulio Prisco

Hmm. I would prefer the first. But I think the last point is the most plausible (personally). Also it gives hope and guides action. It is something we can work towards already now :)

The many worlds theory is also very interesting. In a way won't there be endless exact copies of us, and endless variations too? So in a way we are already infinite and endless. I think I read some variation of this theory were your consciousness would swap place. So if you "die" your conscious stream would just find itself in a new world where you're still alive. So personally you would just experience more and more awkward events keeping you alive, as conscious death is "impossible"

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Hi Daniel, the first (bullet) point is also nice indeed. I prefer the last for the reason you say: it is a project, and we can start working on it now, even if the project will likely take a very long time.

The multiverse scenario doesn't really need "more and more awkward events keeping you alive." Other times are special cases of other worlds (David Deutsch), so when you "die" your consciousness experiences many parallel alternative life streams, initially identical to a moment of this life stream but then diverging. Watch the Netflix show "The Discovery" with Robert Redford.

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Sep 15, 2021Liked by Giulio Prisco

Perfect! I'll definitely check that out :)

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You will love it, and let me know your thoughts after watching!

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Sep 14, 2021Liked by Giulio Prisco

Guilio, in my opinion you reached a highpoint with your June 4th 2019 essay on Andrew Strominger's gauge theory of gravity interacting with IR photons to form a memory storage unit, and an akashic record. It seems like the physics is sound, although who knows if Strominger agrees?

https://turingchurch.net/the-infrared-memory-of-the-universe-hints-at-future-akashic-physics-3f9a072f0ca6

I mentally combine this sort of cosmological database with Alexey Turchin's speculation about using a Dyson sphere to achieve your "Data Recovery project."

https://turingchurch.net/the-infrared-memory-of-the-universe-hints-at-future-akashic-physics-3f9a072f0ca6

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Hi, an updated version of that essay is in "Tales of the Turing Church," second (and current and final) edition. If you ask Strominger in public, he would most certainly say that he strongly disagrees with my wild & weird speculations. But perhaps if you ask him in private...

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Meta-me (= a better way to express and refer to the notion of a super-me) is remarkably consistent or isomorphous with the Vedic scriptures notion of the 'real' you residing on the astral plane where between each reincarnation meta-me ingests/absorbs/processes/integrates all the new memories/experiences of the avatar of it that died, and then decides (together with other meta-persons on the astral plane) on a new mission for which he sends out a new avatar to enter what we call reality as a new incarnation.

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Good to see you here Philippe! Meta-me integrates not only all the version of me that are / have been / will be alive in this timeline, but also all versions of me across all timelines in the multiverse. I'm persuaded that there are many parallel timelines. Not all possible timelines are real, but many are. This is the concept of "thin multiverse" that I touch in my first book.

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Sep 13, 2021Liked by Giulio Prisco

Any (every) memory a memory-maker could invent (fiction) is a possible or less probable memory and roughly equal to any lesser non-invented memory.

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In the picture that I'm outlining here, many invented memories are realized as real memories in other timelines of the multiverse.

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