On 17 January 2014 20:55, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2014/1/16 LizR <[email protected]> > >> On 17 January 2014 10:01, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>>> You can disagree, but it's a fact, we can make video game, so we can >>>> make any rules we want in the created virtual worlds, nothing prevent us to >>>> do so. >>>> >>>> Yes, I made up a game in which 17 is an even number and an infinite >> number of computations can be carried out in a finite time. Also, within >> the game I got a solution to P vs NP so I got the Millennium Prize! >> > > Well those are not physical laws... but yes you could anyway by deluding > all self aware creature in the virtual world thinking so, and anytime they > would hint that isn't true, change their mind... that would certainly > affect their consciousness and free will... but it could be done in > principle. >
You said "we can make up any rules we want" in the virtual worlds.... But I know you really meant physical laws, I was just trying to make a joke (the bit at the end about "I'll get my coat" is normally used to indicate that the comment above was a bad joke, and the audience is now booing me off the stage!) I think a more important point is that we can't make up *any* physical laws, only ones compatible with the existence of the virtual beings inside the game. Of course real-life video games are far too simple for a virtual being to be able to find the physical laws, they aren't rendered down to the level of atoms, so an in-game scientist would soon find their world was built from pixels and suchlike. But we assume a VR *could* be, for the sake of argument... A concrete example might be to render a world in which the ratio between certain constants had a different value. Whether this world would generate observers if run from time zero would be an interesting research project... -- 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.
