Nobody dies. New people are produced, who don't die. Mortality rates keep population expansion from being exponential. 
Posted on 09/24/2003 11:25:56 PM PDT by betty boop
Gee. I thought this line was spoken by the serpent!
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Nobody dies. New people are produced, who don't die. Mortality rates keep population expansion from being exponential.
Volitional/conscious beings that live with integrated honesty will always solve the problems that thwart their immortality. They would never initiate force, fraud or coercion against any person and certainly not forced nonfertility.
Every volitional/conscious being living with integrated honesty is a huge benefit to civilization and produces more values than he or she consumes. Furthermore, when living forever is really forever each person will eventually create/produce more values than all values combined that were present at their time of birth.
Now we have 6 billion. Lets let 18 years (another fudge factor) pass for those to mature and assume we now have 3 billion women. Each one bears a child.
Now we have 9 billion. 18 years. 4.5 billion women, each one bears a child.
13.5 billion, lets add another fudge and round off to 13. 18 years. 18 years. 6.5 billion women, each one has a child.
Now we have 19.5, round off to 19. 18 years. 9.5 biooion women, each bears a child.
Now we have 28.5 billion, round to 28. 18 years. 14 billion women, each bears child.
32 billion. 18 years. 16 billion women.
48 billion.
About a century has passed. But actually much less than a century has passed because of the overuse here of fudge factors. It really starts getting exponential from there. 72, 18 years, 108, 18 years, 162, 18 years, 243. . .
All these billions will not be volitional/conscious beings that live with integrated honesty. It would be nice to believe that all human beings would have achieved that pinnacle of spiritual evolution in less than a century, but they haven't changed significantly in the last 100 centuries.
Plaid huh? We are definitely viewing the issue at a much deeper level than Tegmark's description of the frog (or anything else) as an intertwined "bundle of pasta!" (How I do love his paper on multiverses, A-G!) Amazing, but I can imaginatively visualize this "plaid," too. Maybe call me nutz, but the visualization enables one to "see" that physicality is essentially geometrical.
After your suggestion of an extra time dimension, I've been doing some rereading of Tegmark, Grandpierre, Penrose, the Space-Time-Matter consortium and Cumrun Vafa. It is increasingly clear to me that the key to the riddle is geometric.
A-G, it probably won't surprise you to learn that Grandpierre has studied and written on the Pythagorean basis of Plato's speculation on the structure of consciousness, psyche. Of course, the work is all in Magyar, so it won't do us any good! (What a strange and lovely language....)
I dunno, A-G. I'll ask him. (I'd love to see it, too!) Problem is, every time we have a chance to chat I'm always imploring him to translate something! :^) I feel that I'm burdening a very busy man with all these supplications!
The good news is, I understand that he's well into the English translation of The Book of the Living Universe, and that it will contain some substantial new material not seen in the Magyar edition, which continues to enjoy brisk sales in Hungary.
That doesn't appear to be Indo-European. It must be very strange to any other modern ear from Wales to India and from Russia to Spain.
I'm thrilled to hear he is making such progress on translating his book! Please be sure and let me know where to order it, hot off the press.
RightWhale, I gather Magyar occupies a position in the evolution (and classification) of human languages rather similar to that of the Basque. These languages do not appear to share a common origin, or with any other human language for that matter.
This would be a really good time for any professional linguists out there, specializing in Central European languages, to weigh in.
Good question, A-G. I really don't know, but may have an opportunity to find out soon enough.
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