(February 13, 2015 at 10:28 am)Pyrrho Wrote: Look for discussions about uploading brains into computers and other such attempts at immortality if you wish to find examples. Never mind the fact that a copy of a person put into a computer is a copy and not the person, so that it could not possibly give one immortality even if one could make such a copy; reality is not relevant to the thinking of those who desperately wish to live forever.
Well, I've already seen those discussions, and I've never really seen anyone "desperately clinging" to it. Perhaps you could be more specific?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
