tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post2931243684132710483..comments2023-09-28T21:40:05.328+10:00Comments on Dr Clam's accidental blog: Spero: Question SevenMarco Parigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-55899615127574787562008-01-01T09:54:00.000+11:002008-01-01T09:54:00.000+11:00Yes, it struck me a while back that there are any ...Yes, it struck me a while back that there are any number of people walking around who are more like me 20 years ago than I am. Also, that by selectively forgetting different memories, you could create quite different people out of the raw material available in my brain. I like to hope that all of those 'I's are somehow preserved outside of time, in the mind of God.<BR/><BR/>I expect your future will arrive... here are some dates from the chronology of the 'Young Space Heroes' game, which we ran c.1999:<BR/><BR/>532 b.p. Pope Siobhan XVIII drops papal restrictions on immortality, leaving the Dysonic Instrumentality the sole anti-Immortality force in the Human Polity.<BR/><BR/>2300 b.p. Heterotrophy is condemmned by Pope Alexandra I.<BR/><BR/>2900 b.p. The Four Good Emperors (Tinky-Winky, Laa-Laa, Dipsy and Po)Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-30286933754798539132007-12-30T21:13:00.000+11:002007-12-30T21:13:00.000+11:00That's a danger, to be sure - but lately I am movi...That's a danger, to be sure - but lately I am moving towards the philsophical standpoint that "I" (whatever that may mean from an objective standpoint) change quite frequently over time, in ways that I cannot really. If not from moment to moment, then certainly from year to year, making incremental changes in what I believe, how I think, what matters to me. Hopefully this standpoint is preparing me for the psychologival challenge of a hugely elongated lifespan :)Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203948349102824828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-10036110663401040702007-12-30T08:03:00.000+11:002007-12-30T08:03:00.000+11:00Aiming high is good- good luck with the functional...Aiming high is good- good luck with the functional immortality ambition! Myself, I don't think I am cut out for functional immortality... if I keep changing over time, by the time we get to the as-yet-unimagined I will be so different that I may as well be somebody else- I would no more be 'me' than a penguin is avenerable-ancestor-of-all-dinosauria. And staying like I am for more than a hundred years or so... that would just be unbearable. Even if I could edit out the worst character flaws so I didn't keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over.Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-10855818486301539662007-12-28T20:22:00.000+11:002007-12-28T20:22:00.000+11:00Makes sense to me. I personally want to be part of...Makes sense to me. <BR/><BR/>I personally want to be part of the as-yet-unimagined though, which means that our first act of unmitigated hubris has to be functional immortality, followed closely by resolving the many horrific social, ecological, political and economic effects of functionally immortal humans.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203948349102824828noreply@blogger.com