2014/1/17 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> > > On 16 Jan 2014, at 18:27, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> 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, > > > IF you can believe that 17 is prime independently of you, and, out of > time, space, physics, so to speak, THEN we can say that all computations > are achieved, as they are emulated by the arithmetical reality. > > > > > > > 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... > > > The quantum facts confirms that we are living in the "bottom" simulation, > that is the one naturally emerging from arithmetic. If we bet on comp, and > discover that the laws of physics that we can infer from first person > observation contradicts the laws of physics that we can extract from comp, > then we can infer that we are in a higher level simulation done by > "Jupiter" or some of our descendants. >
That's IMHO false, it's not because you can't infer contradictions between the observed fact and the UD theory that you are in the "bottom" simulation, you can be in a faithfull simulation... and secondly, I think "bottom" simulation is non-sensical, there is no bottom... Quentin > > Bruno > > > > > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
