Re: What is a Simulation? (was Nothing)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 18:54:27 MDT


Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Mike writes
>
> > The physical puppet in the city park is a portrayal. The mental puppet
> > in my memory, after watching the performance, having further adventures
> > is in a universe of its own, but may or may not be a sentient being.
>
> Can you give some examples of things in your mind that are
> sentient beings but who are not you? I thought that only
> some MPS patients had that kind of thing going, and even
> they are under suspicion for having made it all up.
>
> I don't think that you have any evidence that any human
> being has ever hosted a separate sentient being or personality
> after having watched a performance.

MPS patients may have launched their personalities as simulations in
their imaginations originally, but which somehow got user rights, or
even root authority. A being with awareness in an imagined universe
doesn't need to be aware of this universe, of their user/imaginer. Our
imaginations merely launch those universes. Characters within the dream
may or may not behave according to our concious will. What intelligence
is directing those characters? What part of our brain is running them?



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