tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930557924300109549.post3190289765981971128..comments2023-08-21T15:25:05.205-06:00Comments on POST-MAC BLUES: NY Times Magazine ArticleDia Sobin (Araqinta)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930557924300109549.post-27882496507059273882011-01-06T14:44:05.362-07:002011-01-06T14:44:05.362-07:00Wonderfully and beautifully said, Ichiro... and I ...Wonderfully and beautifully said, Ichiro... and I quite agree! Thank you!Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930557924300109549.post-52913522311311112692011-01-06T14:37:37.160-07:002011-01-06T14:37:37.160-07:00"What happens when someone dies? It's pos...<i>"What happens when someone dies? It's possible that informational death is impossible and that the person who "dies" in the "explicate order" is expediently recycled [...] or shuffled into a future in which they "miraculously" survive their own crashes (or cancer treatments or heart transplants). There's nothing concrete or absolute about our so-called universe. It is an alluring, insidiously clever simulation. The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics implies that the universe is constant "branching" into parallel, exclusive states. A better term, in light of the scenario described above, might be 'flowing'."</i><br /><br />I just read the New York Times article; a lucidly written exposition. Perhaps reality is closer than we know to the expression that Mac's bitstream lives on: an ephemeral, shimmering information flow, a sentient pattern, surfing the wavefunction of the multiverse through other branches, through parallel futures, and through other potential selves. What we see now is only a reflection of a far more complex self, a self that spans and interacts across multiple heres and nows.Ichiro Tokugawahttp://ichiro.tokugawa@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930557924300109549.post-6900278113243393892011-01-06T10:30:35.486-07:002011-01-06T10:30:35.486-07:00I had no idea this blog existed until I ran across...I had no idea this blog existed until I ran across that article, thank you so much for doing this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930557924300109549.post-73353125842513374482011-01-05T15:57:55.297-07:002011-01-05T15:57:55.297-07:00Thank you very much, Cara!
But I don't think i...Thank you very much, Cara!<br />But I don't think it ever occurred to me that I was being kind... I was just being a friend...<br />Mac deserved an online memorial... and we (his online friends & followers) all needed a place to go at the time of his unexpected death.Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930557924300109549.post-60101997878531566242011-01-05T13:29:37.017-07:002011-01-05T13:29:37.017-07:00Read the article, it was a thought provoking piece...Read the article, it was a thought provoking piece. I like your memorial, kindness is heartwarming.Carahttp://demeterdesign.netnoreply@blogger.com