Hey everyone, it's Zinnia Jones. This is just something new I'm trying - I've yet to pretty it up, but I promise I will!
For those of you who don't know me, I make videos on YouTube as ZJemptv (ZJ), mostly about religious issues (I'm not religious) and civil rights (I'm not straight). I've been doing this for almost two years now, and it's pretty fun. I'm also the guy who runs emptv.com. This site will soon look like emptv.com.
Oh, you really want to know about me? I'm a 5'5" skinny white guy who grew up out in the suburbs of Chicago and still live there. I enjoy photography, transhumanism, strange music, pet rats, and sometimes writing. I use makeup, in moderation. I usually stay out of the sun. I read the first Twilight book and despised it. I spend a lot of my time managing things online. A surprising number of people want me dead.
Oh, goody. Scathing sarcasm and logical wit- in pink. <3
Whoo-hoo! Another gaytheist with attitude!
Is it weird that one of the least important personal descriptions you used made me think, "Awesome!"? I'm 5'4" and I am surrounded by tall people, so it makes me happy when I meet or talk to someone who's well under 6' tall.
Finally! A blog! :D
I would like to talk to you about transhumanism, but I don't know how to get in touch with you! Except from comments... like this one...
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//rbxa
Can we get your angle on transhumanism?
That should get death threats from a whole new slew of crazies.
Good to see the new blog - congratulations and good luck with it. I'll certainly be keeping track with it. When I signed up to your youtube account a while back, you sent me a very nice thank you message which I've only recently found (I've never used youtube creatively, so I'd not really investigated how it works.) So may I take this opportunity to thank you for that.
I was very impressed with a video you made about epiphenomenalism (which was the first one I saw) and have enjoyed your work ever since. If I may quote article 29 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible." It is a beautiful thing to share the planet with you - and thank you for the clarity, humour and dignity which you bring to the world. We are all the richer for it.
Hi, Zinnia.
I'm glad you have an interest in transhumanism. I prefer the term superhumanism, since the word transhumanism is etymologically vague, whereas the word superhumanism accurately expresses the idea transhumanists have in mind.
Of course, logically speaking, the superhumanist goal implies the existence of God, for as physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler noted, "Any cosmology with unlimited progress will end in God." (See Anthony Liversidge, "Frank Tipler--physicist--Interview", Omni, Vol. 17, No. 1 [October 1994], pp. 89 ff.) This means, e.g., that any form of immortality necessarily entails the existence of the capital-G God, in the sense of an omniscient, omnipotent and personal being with infinite computational resources. This is mathematically unavoidable, for the reason that any finite state will eventually undergo the Poincaré cycle per the Poincaré recurrence theorem. This is very easy to see by considering the simple example of two bits, which have only four possible states (i.e., 2^2): hence, once these four states have been exhausted, states will have to recur. What that means is that any finite state can only have a finite number of experiences (i.e., different states), because any finite state will eventually start to repeat.
Thus, immortality is logically inseparable from the existence of the capital-G God, since mathematically, immortality requires the existence of either an infinite computational state or a finite state which diverges to an infinite computational state (i.e., diverging to literal Godhead in all its fullness), thus allowing for states never repeating and hence an infinite number of experiences.
Furthermore, any universal Turing machine is equivalent to any other universal Turing machine, as any universal Turing machine can perfectly emulate any other Turing machine, and indeed, anything that can logically exist. Since one of the traditional quidditative definitions of God is having an infinite mind, then by definition God would be a universal Turing machine, and thus if a universal Turing machine existed, apodictically it would be God.
Interestingly, God has been proven to exist based upon the most reserved view of the known laws of physics. For much more on that, see Prof. Frank J. Tipler's below paper, which in addition to giving the Feynman-Weinberg-DeWitt quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics, also demonstrates that the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and the Standard Model of particle physics) require that the universe end in the Omega Point (the final cosmological singularity and state of infinite informational capacity identified as being God):
F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers", Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh...68..897T; available at Tipler's website. Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything", arXiv:0704.3276, April 24, 2007.
Out of 50 articles, Prof. Tipler's above paper was selected as one of 12 for the "Highlights of 2005" accolade as "the very best articles published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2005 [Vol. 68]. Articles were selected by the Editorial Board for their outstanding reviews of the field. They all received the highest praise from our international referees and a high number of downloads from the journal Website." (See Richard Palmer, Publisher, "Highlights of 2005", Reports on Progress in Physics website.)
Reports on Progress in Physics is the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional body for physicists. Further, Reports on Progress in Physics has a higher impact factor (according to Journal Citation Reports) than Physical Review Letters, which is the most prestigious American physics journal (one, incidently, which Prof. Tipler has been published in more than once).
See also the below resource for further information on the Omega Point Theory:
Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist. (A website.)
Tipler is Professor of Physics and Mathematics (joint appointment) at Tulane University. His Ph.D. is in the field of global general relativity (the same rarefied field that Profs. Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking developed), and he is also an expert in particle physics and computer science. His Omega Point Theory has been published in a number of prestigious peer-reviewed physics and science journals in addition to Reports on Progress in Physics, such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world's leading astrophysics journals), Physics Letters, the International Journal of Theoretical Physics, etc.
And given an infinite amount of computational resources, per the Bekenstein Bound, recreating the exact quantum state of our present universe is trivial, requiring at most a mere 10^123 bits (the number which Roger Penrose calculated), or at most a mere 2^10^123 bits for every different quantum configuration of the universe logically possible (i.e., the multiverse in its entirety up to this point in universal history). So the Omega Point will be able to resurrect us using merely an infinitesimally small amount of total computational resources: indeed, the multiversal resurrection will occur between 10^-10^10 and 10^-10^123 seconds before the Omega Point is reached, as the computational capacity of the universe at that stage will be great enough that doing so will require only a trivial amount of total computational resources.
It sounds like you're equivocating between the word God as everybody understands it and a weird alternate definition that nobody uses, presumably for the purpose of pumping the former sense's connotations into the latter. I don't quite see the point of that. Evoking religious feelings just makes people terrible at thinking, and we don't want people to be terrible at thinking about theoretical physics or the desirability or possibility of transhumanist goals.
Actually, I use the traditional definitions of God. The Omega Point has all the quidditative properties (hæcceities) claimed for God by the traditional religions, therefore the Omega Point is by definition God, as a quidditative property is an attribute that uniquely identifies a thing, i.e., a property which differentiates a thing from all other things that are not that thing.
The Omega Point is omniscient, having an infinite amount of information and knowing all that is logically possible to be known; it is omnipotent, having an infinite amount of energy and power; and it is omnipresent, consisting of all that exists. These three properties are the traditional quidditative definitions of God held by almost all of the world's leading religions. Hence, by definition, the Omega Point is God.
The universe was also brought into being by the Omega Point, as the end-state of the universe causally brings about the beginning state, i.e., the Big Bang singularity (since in physics it's just as accurate to say that causation goes from future to past events: viz., the principle of least action; and unitarity). Indeed, the Omega Point is actually just a different aspect of the Big Bang singularity, i.e., the uncaused first cause, a definition held by all the Abrahamic religions.
And given an infinite amount of computational resources, per the Bekenstein Bound, recreating the exact quantum state of our present universe is trivial, requiring at most a mere 10^123 bits (the number which Roger Penrose calculated), or at most a mere 2^10^123 bits for every different quantum configuration of the universe logically possible (i.e., the multiverse in its entirety up to this point in universal history). So the Omega Point will be able to resurrect us using merely an infinitesimally small amount of total computational resources: indeed, the multiversal resurrection will occur between 10^-10^10 and 10^-10^123 seconds before the Omega Point is reached, as the computational capacity of the universe at that stage will be great enough that doing so will require only a trivial amount of total computational resources.
how do you get time to read all these and if it makes a difference im not one of the people that want you dead =D lol i am a white Australian 16 i dont know why im typing a coment just kinda like you ;)
Hi There I didn't know where to post this so here will do. I love how you blur the lines of gender and make people uncomfortable due to your views on religion aswell. I'm an atheist too so I'm loving your work. I donno why I'm asking this but I was just curious to hear your opinion on this.
I'm sure you've heard of Asexuality before and I wanted to know do you think it is a legitimate sexuality like homosexuality and heterosexuality. Also if it is a legitimate one, do you think it should be part of the LBGTQ community? Alot of people are divided on this, as it is about the lack of sex and many people view the queer community as the pride and freedom of sexuality in people that aren't straight not the lack of it?. Although there are gay, trans, pans, demi, whateva asexuals too.
I know you might reply to my comment over your blog, but
I think it would be even better maybe you could make a video about. As you have so many people that follow your videos if you had a great option about this topic it would get people talking about it. Ask anyone in the little ace community that we have and they will tell you we need all the help we can get. While gay people and even trans people are recognized these days most people don't even know asexuality exists. So any mention we can get out there helps us in the long term.
I think I read somewhere that at least 1 or 2% of the population are atheist, well about 1% of the population are asexual. I'm not sure how many are queer but I know its not much either.
Anyways I rambling on now, hope you understood what I was trying to say.
Cheers From Australia!
"A surprising number of people want me dead"
I have that effect on people, too. :)
I just got done reading most of your posts, in reverse chronology no less, and wanted to drop you a note. You write very well. Your diction and intent come across very fluidly. Also when finishing something you wrote I don't feel like I missed anything you intended to convey.
Just wanted to say that!
Erik :o)
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