[Kellan]

...So now I shall pass it on, like an infectious virus.

Substrate Independence my ass...

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

[an0n]

Bah! There is a friggin spoon.

[Kellan]

Apparently so.

[wEvil]

There is no spoon.

There is, however, a TV showing some mutant bunnies behind them.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by wEvil
There is no spoon.

There is, however, a TV showing some mutant bunnies behind them.

Are they ill-tempered?

[Levyathan]

I would read through all that huge text if I had nothing else to do. Unfortunately, I do.

[Grey Wolf]

That was stupid. Really stupid. This is not the Matrix. The guy should lay off the LSD.

[TheVirtu]

Originally posted by Kellan


Are they ill-tempered?

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Levyathan
I would read through all that huge text if I had nothing else to do. Unfortunately, I do.

[Knight Templar]

I would rather like to know who came up with the name for "crutons" or however you spell them.

[CP5670]

Some interesting stuff there; I only read through the first few paragraphs but I think I see what he is saying. He seems to have made an important oversight though: given the assumptions, the simulation would for all purposes be exactly the same thing as a "reality," and it would make no difference what word we choose to call it. In fact, suppose that a person imagines something in his mind, we have a "simulated universe" right there. Either the absolute existence axiom or the purpose/meaning deduction is required to bypass this difficulty.

[Blue Lion]

My main question is....


So? How will this affect my day to day life? It won't?

What a shock

*wanders off*

[CP5670]

That's what I mean: there would be no difference between such a "simulation" and a "reality," even for theoretical purposes, so they would just be two words for the same idea.

[Kellan]

Don't be too hard on the guy; he probably needed an original idea for his PhD.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Kellan
Don't be too hard on the guy; he probably needed an original idea for his PhD.

Not that it's an original idea at all...

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Styxx


Not that it's an original idea at all...

Once again I say, there are no original ideas. Just original ways to die.

[wEvil]

I think for what its a worth, its a good, interesting peice of literature.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Kellan
Once again I say, there are no original ideas. Just original ways to die.

Oh, there are original ideas. We just don't tell you about them.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Levyathan
I would read through all that huge text if I had nothing else to do. Unfortunately, I do.

Ditto.

Originally posted by Styxx


Oh, there are original ideas. We just don't tell you about them.

*cough*ThePlan™*cough*

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Sandwich
*cough*ThePlan™*cough*