On 3/7/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With so many imponderables, the most reasonable thing to do is to just
ignore the possibility, and, after all, that may well be what is desired
by the simulation. ("What would our ancestors lives have been like if
Teddy Roosevelt had won the presidential election?")
While it's quite an assumption that we are in a simulation, it's an even
more incredible assumption that we are somehow at the centre of it. It is
analogous to comparing belief in a deistic God to belief in Jehovah the sky
god, who wants us to make sacrifices to him and eat certain things but not
others. The more closely we specify something of which we can have no
knowledge, the more foolish it becomes.
Stathis Papaioannou
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