Well everything *seems* real... right? Though sometimes it all feels a bit ersatz J
John From: Eric B. Ramsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [singularity] World as Simulation Your suggestion baffles me. I was thinking of far more prosaic efforts such as comparisons to physical observations that we actually know something about. "John G. Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would look at multiverses with different physical constants. Say speed-of-light in one multiverse was larger than ours, say WAY larger example 10^100*c. If intermultiverse communication is possible how would the physics work out if a simulation or manipulation was conducted from one to the other. John From: Eric B. Ramsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apart from all this philosophy (non-ending as it seems), Table 1. of the paper referred to at the start of this thread gives several consequences of a simulation that offer to explain what's behind current physical observations such as the upper speed limit of light, relativistic and quantum effects etc. Without worrying about whether we are a simulation of a sinmulation of a simulation etc, it would be interesting to work out all the qualitative/quantitative (?) implications of the idea and see if observations strongly or weakly support it. If the only thing we can do with the idea is discuss phiosophy then the idea is useless. _____ 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/? <http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;> & _____ 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/? <http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;> & ----- 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/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=85291856-229bf2
