Re: Is This an Illusion?

Sean Morgan (sean@lucifer.com)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 21:04:11 -0700


"David Musick" <David_Musick@msn.com> wrote:
>In the throes of revelation, Chris Hind exclaims, "Hey, I just thought of
>something! Maybe the life I'm currently living is just a uploaded environment
>I've created and have switched on my Programmed Ignorance switch to enjoy and
>experience it. Perhaps when we die, we're just exiting the program."

Time to pull an old sig out of the archive. The quote is a paraphrase of
something Marvin Minsky wrote.

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Sean Morgan (sean@lucifer.com) | "If instead we were computer-simulated beings
| in a computer-simulated universe you wouldn't
http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/ | be able to tell -- except that nuclear physics
| would show round-off errors not unlike the
| uncertainty principle." Uh, wait a minute ...