On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> The simplest and by far most likely answer is to assume that the world we > appear to live in IS the real actual world > Maybe. But it could be argued that if the ability to perform vast calculations is possible (and I can't see why it wouldn't be) then sooner of later it will be achieved, then a future Jupiter Brain will be able to create astonishingly realistic simulations, and Mr. Jupiter Brain would probably be curious about humans, the creatures that made it, and so it would make a simulation of them, and those simulated humans will make a simulated Jupiter Brain which in turn will make simulated simulated humans who will [...] I admit this is a VERY long chain of reasoning, but you might conclude that the most likely conclusion is we live in a simulation. I'm not saying any of this is true but... > We can imagine we live in some simulation by some super beings and that > may or may not be a possibility (I maintain there will always be a way to > figure that out), > I'm almost embarrassed to admit it but from time to time I have found myself drawing analogies from the coarse grained nature of the quantum world and getting too close to the screen in a video game and seeing individual pixels; and between the quantum world where things don't seem to actually exist before you measure them and the fact that a good programmer doesn't waste computer power simulating things behind a big rock that nobody will ever see. And the singularity at the center of a Black Hole does sometimes seem a little like a screw up where a programer tried to divide by zero. I'm half joking in all this, but only half. John K Clark -- 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.
