Re: Paul Davies V. The Multiverse

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 01:56:28 MDT

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    Paul Davies:
    > Problems also crop up in the small print. Among the myriad universes similar
    > to ours will be some in which technological civilizations advance to the
    > point of being able to simulate consciousness. Eventually, entire virtual
    > worlds will be created inside computers, their conscious inhabitants unaware
    > that they are the simulated products of somebody else's technology. For every
    > original world, there will be a stupendous number of available virtual worlds
    > ??? some of which would even include machines simulating virtual worlds of
    > their own, and so on ad infinitum.

    Which suggestes that the Tegmark taxonomy of Level I, II, III and IV
    worlds need an extra level, a level 1.5 for all the virtual worlds which
    are physically present but semantically isolated.

    BTW, there are some interesting philosophy papers at
    http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/phi.html about the
    philosophy of such matrixes.

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