12733724, RE: Even with certain limitations like closed spaces
Posted by initiationofplato, Mon Feb-23-15 11:22 AM
>And assuming the distance isn't too great. Infinity simply
>doesn't work, especially when you're talking about a reflector
>(a person), not a source (a star). See post above.
>
Hubble Deep Field.
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>>Even if the light that bounces off you is absorbed by the
>>electrons in the walls, the walls themselves are recording
>>your life. Everything is witness to your life here due to
>>light.
>
>Walls may react to my life (for instance my shadow or
>reflection may cause paint to fade unevenly if I stood in the
>same spot for a long time) but if you can't extract more than
>my shape, it's not *really* recording is it? The minimum
>requirement for "recording" a human is recreating their brain
>function - my brain is hidden behind my skull, so has no
>chance of being "recorded".
>
I don't know where you got the minimal requirement for "recording" a human and confined it to recreating brain function. What?
>Clouds. Reflective particles in the atmosphere. The Sun. All
>these things stand in the way of your reflected light being
>detected outside the Solar System. The likelyhood is all
>anyone would ever see from an intergalactic distance is the
>Sun. Maybe the Earth at a real push.
I disagree 100%. This is impossible for you to claim for certain. You are only speculating. The nature of light has shown us that it carries information from billions of years ago, and I find it odd that you would place a limit on how much detail and information we can extract from that light when we continually improve our ability to see more and more. Progress is not going to stop on account of what you speculate is possible and impossible.
>It'd be great if it was as usable as a zip disk. It's not like
>any of this leads to there being a "backup" of me anywhere is
>it? Just an image? Even if my *image* survived into infinity,
>it doesn't help the actual me very much outside of extremely
>short-term narcissism, does it?
Maybe you do not find it profound or exciting but I do. The idea that my life will be forever etched into the universe is amazing to me.
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