RE: Slashdot - The Computational Requirements for the Matrix

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 23:44:36 MDT

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    At 02:19 PM 6/1/03 -0400, Harvey wrote:

    >Since
    >realities exist for billions of years before the first simulations appear

    But presumably *intelligences* don't. If life has existed on Earth for ~ 40
    hundred thousand thousand years and appropriate intelligence for ~ 40
    thousand before simulations, the disparity is clearer.

    Damien Broderick

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