Yeah, I'm aware that my idea doesn't hold water -- just playing. Evidence that we're not in a game is that the putative gamemaster didn't block my note from appearing. If you hadn't responded, I would have had confirmation of my idea.
Bruce On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Arlo Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > But then that implies a false positive: if in other configurations we > don't notice it as a puzzle, then we only (or are more likely to) notice > the more 'puzzle-like' phenomena, and interpret that as meaning we are in a > game. > But is a game the same as a simulation? Sure, games can have elements of > simulation (where I define simulation as recreating a system in perhaps > simpler terms) but I believe it exists as a separate conceptual entity. > Besides, it seems that all these discussions of whether we live in a real > universe or not get caught up in circularity because we generally define > reality *as* the universe. > -Arlo James Barnes > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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