The author, however, seems to think that such an intervention would have been a violation of logic. In these chapters, I found the author addressing many points that I had made in the margins of the earlier chapters. That is, it was solid and organic, able to change its appearance, and able to appear instantly in any part of the emulation at will. He also notes that if it were necessary to the formation of the Omega Point for Jesus to rise from the dead, then quantum mechanics would make this extraordinarily unlikely event not just possible, but inevitable. There are moments where the author seems to grow uncomfortable with the implications of his insistence that everything in the universe, without exception, can be transformed into a computer program.
Programs can exist within programs.
Tipler insists that there is no evidence for a level of implementation below the level of the world we see. Well, there's a comfort. The fact is, however, that though he imagines himself to be giving Platonic metaphysics a drubbing with his ontological monism, what he has in fact done is create a particularly unnerving form of Neoplatonism. His physics is essentially a hierarchy of mind. The Physics of Immortality could perhaps only have occurred in the same culture, and in the same era, that would keep a book like James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy on the best-seller list for a year.