From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 21:46:14 MDT
Michael M. Butler wrote,
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:55 pm
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: The Simulation Argument again
>
>
> 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?
That's not the absurd part. I accept that dreams are really good
simulations. But that argument means that since there are more dreams than
realities, statistically speaking, we should assume we are dreaming now. If
this logic works for the simulation argument, it should work even more for
the dream argument. All this is a dream.... Why not?
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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