# Quote — Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality

> There is an interesting connection between my claim that the Omega Point is a Person because it contains a Turing-Test-passing subprogram, and the Christian notion of Person, as this word is applied to God. In classical Greek, the word prosopon (πρόσωπον)—persona is the Latin equivalent—primarily meant "face" or "countenance," but the word also meant a mask that an actor wore to indicate the character... By the fourth century A.D. ...this word had come to refer to those innate aspects of the human mentality which differentiate one human being from another. Today the word... refers to the total individual human mind, including the innate and learned aspects... [T]o interact with us human beings as a Person... the Omega Point would be revealing only a miniscule portion... a Person in the original sense and in the fourth century sense... .

- Author: [Frank J. Tipler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-j-tipler.md)
- Book: [The Physics of Immortality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-j-tipler/the-physics-of-immortality.md)
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> The germ theory was resurrected... by Pasteur and his new medical physics.
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> Thus... physics had to be extended to medicine in order to save the germ theory. Similarly, for religion to survive, physics must be extended into theology.

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