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Yes! We are all robots, according to the leading British neuroscientist. He has to say so because he is a robot. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8058541/Neuroscience-free-will-and-determinism-Im-just-a-machine.html

Martin Brundle Damon Hill Pope Francis Eric Clapton Frank Williams Robbie Coltrane Gerd Müller

Got it. And since life is a sexually transmitted disease, we are all fucked.

English isn't my mother tongue -> a very silly question: what does "fucked" exactly mean? Does it mean hopeless, or finished, or dead in the very near future? Being "fucked" is a often a desired state, so why to be "fucked" is something awful?

The third time it's enemy action! We'd lose two Saints too – Val & Roger, Let's pray Val's woo-woo bat-juice works.

Olivia Newton John & John Travolta? Greased together forever in death.

Springtime for Blofeld!

A super-rich celebrity dies at 89. Horrific news. I am shaken not stirred.

I bet he's operating his bat-computer at this very moment, desperately trying to find a bat-cure!

Swedish writer Torgny Lindgren dies aged 78. http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/torgny-lindgren-har-avlidit/

"This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase. People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted." – Stephen Hawking "You only live twice" – James Bond I can hardly wait to experience my contracting phase.

She was 52.

Have you read his Counter-Clock World ? The novel describes a future in which time has started to move in reverse, resulting in the dead reviving in their own graves ("old-birth"), living their lives in reverse, and eventually returning to the womb where they split into an egg and a sperm during copulation between a recipient woman and a man. Recently dead people (e.g. Peter Falk) will revive first, and eventually historical figures such as Napoleon and Julius Caesar will be back among us. Perhaps Jesus too... his second coming. What if PKD hit the truth and time reversal (in which also Stephen Hawking used to believe) begins next year?

OK... but what if none of PKD's novels are real. About those things to avoid if you want to keep loving him: Is it possible to avoid anything? Physicists and neurologists agree that there is no such thing as mental causation. Therefore it is impossible to avoid anything until it suddenly zaps you.

" 1 - What looks incredibly inventive was actually the way he thought." So what? At his best he was an ubique writer. He died at 53, according to my research average long lifespan is 70. Who cares anyway. 2 - All five of his ex-wives said he was impossible! " Probably these ex-wives were impossible too. Mädchen...

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick wrote as follows. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real." What if none of us are real? In that case none of these reported deaths are real. Actually quantum mechanics has proved that the universe is not real.

"a path which nevertheless leads to death" But life and death are not well defined. What is life? And what is death? Who are you? Is life just some electrochemical activity in brain tissue? As William James wrote, "the whole philosophy of perception from Democritus’s time downwards has been just one long wrangle over the paradox that what is evidently one reality should be in two places at once, both in outer space and in a person’s mind", However, the reality in a person's mind is supposed to cease to exist at the moment of death. Meanwhile, the reality in outer space is supposed to continue its existence, although the celeb appears to cease to exist. But that objective reality, in which Einstein believed, has been decades ago proved to be unreal. To sum up, as William James wrote (google him), there is evidently one reality. Thus, when death comes, it is impossible that the reality in outer physical space continues its existence while the reality in inner mental space ceases to exist for good. In other words, it is impossible that the Schrodinger's cat becomes "dead" while the cat at the same time continues its "life".'' Drol, why don't you show off. In other words, your immortal subjective existence and your mortal objective existence must be the same, and these two simultaneous existences must be outside of space and time, as quantum mechanics has been telling us since the 1920s.

"Deathlist Forums - come for the dead celebs, stay for the philosophy discussions... " at the risk of a forever ban, I find the philosophy discussions more interesting. Perhaps we could continue some philosophy discussions in this thread, especially since celebs seem to stay alive right now? About drol's questions. Schrodinger's original formulation is NOT incorrect. The cat is indeed living and dead at the same time. Roger Penrose says so and this is a real paradox and NOT an incorrect formulation. Read my lips: this is a real paradox. About the infinite monkey theorem and what if we take the atoms in the universe as casual letters of a computer and time as infinite? What atoms? What universe? Neuroscientists agree that both time and the universe are brain constructs. In fact we all should know this. We have been brainwashed that there are atoms, not unlike tiny table tennis balls, and the universe is really "out there". However, physicists know that this is not so. For example, top neuroscientist Gerhard Roth says that the universe is a brain construct. What is more, top neuroscientist David Eagleman says that time is a brain construct. Einstein said that time is an illusion. Top physicist Paul Davies says that energy is a brain construct. Physicists say that energy cannot be spatiotemporally located. Einstein's formula says that energy is matter. Thus matter is not spatiotemporally located. In fact the brain is a brain construct (see e.g. Dr Ian McChilchrtist's excellent book named the Master and Emissary). What is space and time? Are they real? Are you real? Here's something nice for you drol, written by a top physicist. http://wwwp.fc.unesp.br/~malvezzi/downloads/Ensino/Disciplinas/IntrodMecQuant/textos/What's bad about this habit - David Mermin.pdf My understanding is that the top physicist Aharanov says that the universe has a final state that is pulling us and that no one can avoid his/hers destiny.

From God's perspective everything is both dead and alive. According to quantum mechanical, Buddhist, Vedic and common-sense views, there is only one perspective and that is the subjective one. Or can you name someone whose perspective is objective?

Ok my previous post wasn't any good. However, the 1933 Nobel laureate Schrodinger, a father of quantum mechanics, a genius, believed that there is no death. In fact, if death is real, we have to deal with the mind-body problem. No one has yet been able to explain what consciousness is, what causal powers it has if any, why did evolution by natural selection produce such an useless epiphemonenalistic thing and what is the mechanism by which mind ceases to exist when the brain dies. What is more, no one has explained the über-difficult Schrodinger cat paradox, according to which all of us are simultaneously both dead and alive at this very moment, because the Schodinger wave function says so. Nothing to reply, drol?

The 4th all-time leading scorer in World Championships Vladimir Petrov dies at 69 of cancer. https://lenta.ru/news/2017/02/28/vladimirpetrov/

Nothing to reply. However, I will try. I will post something, no matter how stupid. I say that Zeno was right. The arrow will never reach the target because it doesn't really exist. Objects that we see around us aren't really out there, and that includes our bodies. All we have actually ever had, or ever can have for certain, are experiences in the mind. All the rest is deduced – modelled. (quote: Arthur Ellison, Late Prof Emeritus of Electrical engineering, the City University, London). Stephen Hawking agrees and says that we live in a model-based reality (check out his recent book named "the Grand Design"). All model-based realities are simulations or virtual realities. In other words, unless Hawking is 100 % mistaken, we live in a simulation. Unless our sharpest scientists are morons, it is absolutely certain that live in a simulation. It is true that we are in the Matrix. The universe is not real. Therefore our physical bodies are not real. Why don't you have a look at what Sir Roger Penrose says below. He says that there are three kinds of existence: physical, mental and mathematical. The obvious implications are that the physical body is mortal. So is the mental body (often called ego, or "soul"). However, the imaginary mathematical "quantum body" is eternal, and it has no location in space or time. Zeno's arrow paradox is a mathematical problem. If it is treated as a physical problem, it is easily solved. (see e.g. Zwart: About Time, a philosophical inquiry into the origin and nature of time, 1976.) However, as Penrose points out, the world of mathematics is more real than the physical world. Therefore the arrow will never reach the target. That is because the physical arrow does not exist. Only the mathematical arrow exists, and in the mathematical world motion and change do not occur. Our mortal physical bodies (which do not really exist) are physical problems, which are easily solved. A piece of cake. We are nothing but advanced apes, collections of atoms obeying the laws of physics. However, our true identity is mathematical, and because mathematics is eternal, I am eternal, and so are you. You are what I am forever. Also this: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-physicists-implications-quantum-mechanics-philosophy.html "The physical universe is really like a movie/motion picture, in which a series of still images shown on a screen creates the illusion of moving images," Faizal said. "Thus, if this view is taken seriously, then our conscious precipitation of physical reality based on continuous motion becomes an illusion produced by a discrete underlying mathematical structure." "This proposal makes physical reality platonic in nature," Late addition: However, the universe is a real simulation, and our physical bodies are real as simulations, They are real to our minds, which are also simulations. One more thing: there is only one mathematical quantum body, and it is called the quantum world. Therefore our physical bodies have no quantum copies. Zeno's arrow paradox is both a mathematical problem and a philosophical problem. If it is treated as a physical problem, it is easily solved, and the arrow reaches its target because the arrow and target are PHYSICALLY real, that is, they are real simulations. But the paradox has no mathematical or philosophical solutions. Underlying our physical reality is a mathematical and philosophical reality. Late addition #2 As Penrose says, there are three kinds of existence: physical, mental and mathematical. Thus Zeno's arrow paradox exists both physically, mentally and mathematically. But only the physical arrow reaches its target. What happens to the mental and mathematical arrows? Nothing at all. They do not move.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky is postponing scheduled recitals in Kaliningrad and Minsk over the coming week and canceling his Wiener Staatsoper recital on March 7 after being advised by his doctors to continue treatment for his brain tumour during this period. He's had brain tumour since 2015 and once again into the chemo. http://slippedisc.com/2017/02/dmitry-hvorotovsky-cancels-recitals-to-resume-cancer-therapy/

Wow, links. How do you do that?

800 m Olympic 1980 winner Nadezhda Olizarenko dies at 63.