From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 13:05:35 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 10:55 am, John K Clark wrote:
> > By the way, do you have
> > any reason to think this has not already happened to you?
> >
>
> Yes: A complete lack of evidence. I am amazed how often the argument
> that "you can't prove it isn't true" keeps coming up on this list. We
> used to say that claims require evidence, and extraordinary claims
> require extraordinary evidence. It would take some extraordinary
> evidence to decide that we had already been uploaded into a simulation.
Ah, but the sort of 'extraordinary evidence' that someone might demand
could be impossible to develop within the frame of reference of the
simulation (as any good sim would), being restricted by the physical
laws of the sim. I think the digital nature of quantum mechanics is a
significant argument for the simulation hypothesis, and likely the most
significant we will be able to establish from physical law.
I think an interesting thought experiment would be to devise a set of
physical laws which are analog all the way down to the most discrete
subatomic level. Such could represent a really 'real' universe from
whence all simuverses derive.
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