Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

[Stephen Paul King]

Dear George,       How does indeterminacy and multiple-world-occupation follow from an inability to deduce that one is not in a simulation?       Also, how is multiple-world-occupation knowable 1st person unless by the means I discusses previously? Does this not violate the anthropic principle?   I am missing something. :_(   Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: George Levy To: Everything List Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:12 AM Subject: Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer? Hi Stephen Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear George,       My take of Russell's post is:       Unless the creature had some experience that was not dismissible as a hallucination (1st person) and/or was witness by others (a proxy of 3rd person?) that lead him to the conclusion that it existed within a virtual reality then it would have no ability to make such a deduction. True. But from its own point of view its world would then be indeterminate. The creature would occupy several worlds as long as this indeterminacy exists. George