Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality (opens in new tab)

The final Mindscape podcast of each year is devoted to a short, reflective Holiday Message. This year the theme is Immortality: whether it's an attractive idea, and whether the laws of physics and cosmology would allow for it in principle. (Spoiler: they do not.) Mindscape will return as usual on January 1, 2024. Happy holidays everyone! Blog post with transcript: Support Mindscape on Patreon. Here are some of the stories and papers mentioned in the episode: Borges, "The Immortal" Barnes, A H...