X-Message-Number: 26594
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:03:45 -0700
Subject: Wild Claims: Burden of Proof & Basie
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Survival through patternism grants survival through materialism; 
more strongly, patternism treats as survival a much broader class 
of scenarios than does materialism, the scenarios of the latter 
being a strict subset of the scenarios of the former.

Therefore, the burden of proof is on the patternist, to show that 
the patternist position is correct. It is not on the materialist.

Be that as it may, I have gone much further and have shown many 
times the absurd implications of patternism, such as the Inevitable 
Immortality Within a Toilet (IIWT) thought experiment, which, if 
taken seriously by a patternist, would cause the patternist to 
renounce cryonics and life extension as unnecessary and wasteful.

Richard B. Riddick

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