X-Message-Number: 26594 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:03:45 -0700 Subject: Wild Claims: Burden of Proof & Basie From: <> 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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26594