From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 20:54:44 MDT
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:32:07 -0400, Harvey Newstrom
<mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> - As an absurd argument, why not count dreams? They are simulations of
> the
> universe that seem real to us at the time. There are many more dreams
> than
> universes (either simulated or natural). Wouldn't this imply that we are
> in
> a dream instead of a simulation or reality?
Harvey: I'm not sure this sounds as absurd to me as you might think it does
to you. Any sufficiently advanced dream by a sufficiently advanced dreamer
might start to approximate a simulation. No?
I'm sure there's a big chunk of Hindu world-story that relates to dreaming
the universe.
Or maybe I just dreamt that.
:)
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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