On 12/4/2013 2:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 12/4/2013 10:24 AM, Jason Resch wrote:On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:17 AM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Theory? I am betting neither Clarke the writer, nor Shermer, the Atheist, has put a lot of intellectual efforts in their perspectives/statements. Clarke was aiming at human perspective. Shermer was trying to shoot down the attitudes of the religious, by re-phrasing Clarke's Law. Could God be Drelb, the famous hyper-intelligence from the Sombrero Galaxy. If this is so, what can we do about it? If Drelb is hyper-intelligent, it can simulate all of Earth and learn everything about us and everything we do.That seems inconsistent with the idea that "we" are infinitely many threads of computation in multiverses. FPI would make us random to Drelb too. There are also infinite numbers of Drelb though too.Drelb, by constructing a "physical replica" of Earth, is in a sense is running a quantum emulation of all possibilities of Earth, and Drelb, by observing it, is split into as many copies as there are possibilities for the simulation to diverge.
So he suffers FPI too. Brent -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
