Re: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

2016-04-23 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
zona US > > > > *From:* Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] > *Sent:* Saturday, April 23, 2016 2:12 PM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again > > > > *From:* Blaze Spinnaker > > Ø Also, it does lend credenc

RE: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

2016-04-23 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 2:12 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again From: Blaze Spinnaker Ø Also, it does lend credence to concepts of immortality. One goal of transhumanists is backing up your

RE: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

2016-04-23 Thread Jones Beene
From: Blaze Spinnaker * Also, it does lend credence to concepts of immortality. One goal of transhumanists is backing up your 'brain'. If you die, you just need to reload it into a simulation. Who needs the simulation, or stated differently, isn’t the Sim intrinsic to power-law

Re: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

2016-04-23 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Also, it does lend credence to concepts of immortality. One goal of transhumanists is backing up your 'brain'. If you die, you just need to reload it into a simulation. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > Oh, I dunno, if you model the universe

Re: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

2016-04-23 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Oh, I dunno, if you model the universe as a simulation you can attempt to make some assumptions about how the simulation substrate is structured. Once you have that, you can think about ways of 'piercing the veil'. You can also leverage the model to make more consistent theories about way things

[Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

2016-04-23 Thread Jones Beene
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152927/20160423/universe-probably-simulati on-neil-degrasse-tyson.htm The headline is an attention grabber: Universe Is Probably A Simulation: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tyson is a product of television's need to put a smiling PC face on science, and is almost as much