From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 01:32:33 MDT
At 08:34 PM 6/4/03 -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>The presence of paranormal phenomena could, in fact, be considered
>evidence that one is in a simulation, if such phenomena are observable
>and outside the bounds of the laws of physics. ...
>For example, if ever psi phenomena can be demonstrated, then this might
>be evidence of 'hacking the sim'.
Exactly, and I would say that they *are* demonstrable. On just this basis,
I wrote in a book on psi phenomena published in 1992:
< If life is in some authentic sense a kind of semi-autonomous program
running within a cosmic simulation (a rather Platonic conceit), might it
not learn to interfere with the programming that constitutes that universe?
Such self-programmed loops could produce astonishing discontinuities in
the world that we (the subroutines) experience: one subroutine (or
consciousness) might contrive to subvert the usual rules and directly
access the knowledge normally available only to another data register (that
is, a different person). It might even prove feasible to `re-program' the
physical conditions in one's `simulated' surroundings.
THE LOTTO EFFECT >
Damien Broderick
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