Then what is doing the computing of whatever is doing the computing? And so on. Turtles all the way down.
- Tom --- Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jeff Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matt Mahoney wrote: > > > --- Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Human senses, while crude, are good enough to > detect a > > >> wholesale rearrangement of a large majority of > the > > >> matter in the solar system. > > > > > > A technology this advanced could also reprogram > your neurons to make you > > > believe whatever it wanted. There is no way you > could detect this. > > > > Although that might be the case for some > technology of the future > > (protein manipulating nano-bots), it seems that > unless you want to > > create a religion based on these kinds of beliefs > you really can't go > > very far with them. What would the logic of being > an advanced race that > > hides itself from those it finds on other planets > anyway? > > Who says it is hiding? What do you think a > singularity would look like? > > Doesn't the fact that the universe exists at all > suggest that there is a > computation? What is doing the computing? > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
