And aren't we all trying to "Level Up"? Wasn't every step of evolution
(the relative plateaus of complexity?) like Prokaryiote to Eukaryote,
like multi-cellular, like O2 Breathers, like vertebates, like
warm-bloodeds, like tool users, like fire users, like language users,
like nation-state creators, etc... Our search for the GUT is now
perhaps eclipsed by our search for the key to life itself... etc.?
Also, how different is this idea of universe as simulation from Digital
Physics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics>?
- Steve
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]
<mailto:[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
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