Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
The final Mindscape podcast of each year is devoted to a short, reflective Holiday Message. This year the theme is Immortality: whether it's an attractive idea, and whether the laws of physics and cosmology would allow for it in principle. Mindscape will return as usual on January 1, 2024. Happy holidays everyone!
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/12/18/holiday-message-2023-reflections-on-immortality/
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Here are some of the stories and papers mentioned in the episode:
- Borges, "The Immortal"
- Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- The Good Place
- Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
- Dyson, "Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe"
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