In Case I Die

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7 pointsjverrecchia4 comments

Reincarnation is wishful thinking. Pleasant to consider, but nobody has ever proved it exists.

My dad told my sister that he would let her know if there's anything after. Fifty years later, he hasn't called, he hasn't written, ...

May I ask why you mention reincarnation? I do not talk about reincarnation at all in the article, and I do not believe in it. I'm surprised the 2 comments here are about that.

I only mentioned reincarnation because the previous commenter mentioned it. He obviously believes in it, I don't as you may gather from my comment.

But hey, if he wants to believe in reincarnation, as you believe in a singularity, that's OK too.

70 years ago, people believed that computers would 'very soon now' understand spoken natural languages like Russian, Chinese or even English. That's 'understand' as in 'know it at a reasoning level', not 'understand' as in 'manipulate the word tokens'. Such a simple goal, but that is still decades (more likely centuries) away from our current capabilities.

Reincarnation is a fascinating topic, and one I would recommend the author and everybody reading this to investigate Edgar Cayce and others who really looked into it.

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