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