--- 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
