From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 03:02:21 MDT
Well somebodys getting famous. :-)
"Nick Bostrom discusses the computational requirements needed to
simulate human existence. He offers a proof based on the anthropic
principle, that you are almost certainly a computer simulation and not
"real". The idea is that given that humans don't go extinct in
geologically short time then eventually computer capability will allow
complete simulation of the human cortex. Consequently, there must be far
more simulations running in future millennia than seconds since you were
born. Thus its astronomically more likely you are a simulation than real ...
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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