On the Laws of Immortality (of the Virtual Sort).
I'm wondering whether we need to have an educational course that anticipates a "religious - technological future that presumes virtual immortality." See, reference to Tipler's Physics of Immortality below. I have no idea what to call this course. The course would be built on anticipating fundamental technological breakthroughs aimed at the ultimate teleology or Omega Point and would try to figure out their consequences in terms of the law. This isn't about patent law or innovations--the best course for that is at the Law School at Stanford University. This is a course that would bring back Aristotle's causa of teleology so that Ethics and Politics could be discussed in relation to the causae of Form (mathematical and visual technologies), Efficient (the material implementation of such breakthroughs from the micro to the macro) and the Substantive (the uniqueness of breakthrough). Permit me an example.
Yesterday, I was speaking with a young friend who sells computers by day and plans film-making at night. His next project is a 15 minute short on "How to become a Roman Emperor." He tells me that there is a breakthrough that has occurred that will require ALL ELECTRONIC equipment to be redone. The fundamental breakthrough will enable a mobile phone to carry 1,000 terrabytes of memory. And it will mean that a lot of programming to make things "compact" will become unnecessary. Maybe we won't need any programming language at all, and maybe a lot of processes we take for granted to check, validate and verify our electronic memories will become obsolete.
Now, what kind of universe of legal discourse would that innovation imply?
This technology will be out within 4 or 5 years.
Reference: Tipler, F.T. (2000) The Physics of Immortality. All the fundamental breakthroughs according to Tipler (who was a top rated physicist until he published this CRAZY book that makes him look looney--but I think it's just a great example of taking a rather simple idea very seriously), will be about achieving an Omega Point (Theilhard de Chardin's idea back in the 1930's) that everything in life will be resurrected. Now, resurrection in a physics sense is a White Hole where an infinitude of memories can be played back. Tipler describes the evolution of the universe from black hole singularity to white hole resurrection. To get to a white hole, all the energy of the universe will be used to store all events. It's a CRAZY idea because it is an ultimate teleology and modern science does not like teleology at all.
I'm wondering whether we need to have an educational course that anticipates a "religious - technological future that presumes virtual immortality." See, reference to Tipler's Physics of Immortality below. I have no idea what to call this course. The course would be built on anticipating fundamental technological breakthroughs aimed at the ultimate teleology or Omega Point and would try to figure out their consequences in terms of the law. This isn't about patent law or innovations--the best course for that is at the Law School at Stanford University. This is a course that would bring back Aristotle's causa of teleology so that Ethics and Politics could be discussed in relation to the causae of Form (mathematical and visual technologies), Efficient (the material implementation of such breakthroughs from the micro to the macro) and the Substantive (the uniqueness of breakthrough). Permit me an example.
Yesterday, I was speaking with a young friend who sells computers by day and plans film-making at night. His next project is a 15 minute short on "How to become a Roman Emperor." He tells me that there is a breakthrough that has occurred that will require ALL ELECTRONIC equipment to be redone. The fundamental breakthrough will enable a mobile phone to carry 1,000 terrabytes of memory. And it will mean that a lot of programming to make things "compact" will become unnecessary. Maybe we won't need any programming language at all, and maybe a lot of processes we take for granted to check, validate and verify our electronic memories will become obsolete.
Now, what kind of universe of legal discourse would that innovation imply?
This technology will be out within 4 or 5 years.
Reference: Tipler, F.T. (2000) The Physics of Immortality. All the fundamental breakthroughs according to Tipler (who was a top rated physicist until he published this CRAZY book that makes him look looney--but I think it's just a great example of taking a rather simple idea very seriously), will be about achieving an Omega Point (Theilhard de Chardin's idea back in the 1930's) that everything in life will be resurrected. Now, resurrection in a physics sense is a White Hole where an infinitude of memories can be played back. Tipler describes the evolution of the universe from black hole singularity to white hole resurrection. To get to a white hole, all the energy of the universe will be used to store all events. It's a CRAZY idea because it is an ultimate teleology and modern science does not like teleology at all.
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