On 12/06/2013 10:56 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Lately, I’ve been using a VM within a VM.
One of the problems I have with this: http://www.simulation-argument.com/faq.html is the potential for infinite regress. At that point, I think it boils down to whether you accept this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound I remember sitting in on a talk by this guy: http://www.isepp.org/Pages/12-13%20Pages/Bristol.html wherein he posited that a (hypothetical, of course) system of systems universe might actually loop... i.e. yes, it's turtles all the way down, but you could (in principle) mark any given turtle and find your way back to a marked turtle with an ongoing monotonic scale change. -- glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847 ============================================================ 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
