From: david gobel (dgobel@doubled.com)
Date: Mon Sep 06 1999 - 07:41:17 MDT
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:.. there's.. at least a 50% chance of this
being...
> a 100% probability. My intuitions, though, tell me that this Universe
> is real down to the quark level, which I don't think would be necessary
> if this were a simulation. Then again, in this sort of situation it's
> kind of hard to trust one's intuitions - but I still do.
Reality sure is funny stuff...
I answered this question to my own satisfaction in 1994 when our first
Worlds program actually worked...especially when we included the softbot
with extensive knowledge of bartending. The answer is: a virtual world is an
actual world under all conditions where the simulated cognitives are unaware
that their world is a simulation. Once interior consciousness is available,
it is real. I have been aware that we are a simulation since 1994. Yet, a
simulation is real where consequences are real/cared about. Consciousness is
the only REAL thing...(that I know of). I invite you to visit
www.activeworlds.com which is one of the companies resulting from Worlds
Inc. Thus, my conclusion is that whether a world is simulated on a
hypersupermegametacompumaniac...or a balsa wood abacus of sufficient
complexity...it's still a real world.
dave gobel
founder
worlds inc.
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