Frank Tipler

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Frank Tipler

American physicist

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anthropic principle
Forms of the anthropic principle
John Barrow and American physicist Frank Tipler have proposed a final anthropic principle: the universe is structured so that an infinite number of bits of information can be processed by computers to the future of any time. That is, complexity at a level required to constitute life can continue to…
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John Barrow and American physicist Frank Tipler have proposed a final anthropic principle: the universe is structured so that an infinite number of bits of information can be processed by computers to the future of any time. That is, complexity at a level required to constitute life can continue to…
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transhumanism
Ethics and philosophy
…for example, the American physicist Frank Tipler borrowed from the French Jesuit theologian and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega point theory—which proposes that evolution is converging toward a final unity—to present a concept of God as a cosmic computerized intelligence that is equivalent to the Omega. When the Omega…
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…for example, the American physicist Frank Tipler borrowed from the French Jesuit theologian and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega point theory—which proposes that evolution is converging toward a final unity—to present a concept of God as a cosmic computerized intelligence that is equivalent to the Omega. When the Omega…
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