Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
The Theory of Anything
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Tippler's Criticism of the Omega Point Theory
"If death is really just a problem to be solved, then it's not something that overcoming death is not something that is denied by the laws of physics," he says. "Deutsche gives a pretty good example of where you create a virtual reality simulation of the entire universe or in fact the entire multiverse and you just resurrect everybody." Tippler has adjusted his argument to argue that humans can utilize electroweak quantum tunneling to power starships - I don't know what Deutsch thinks of that part,. He argues Omega Point theory doesn't match observation because the universe is expanding.
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