On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Understood, Jason. I became familiar with this digital universe concept, > first, through Hans Moravec, in Mind Children. I wonder how possible it is > to discover that we are part of an ancestor simulation? >
If computationalism is true then it is in principal impossible to rule out being in a simulation, so we could never disprove it. However, it may be possible to find strong evidence for our existence in a simulation. If the simulators wanted to reveal this fact to us they could make it pretty convincing. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ for a nice story and example. Yet, I also think every conscious experience has an infinite number of explanations/incarnations, some fraction of which are due to simulations. So in a sense, we all already exist in a simulations (to varying degrees, as different entities might have a greater fraction of their explanations be simulations). Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
