From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 00:47:28 MDT
As noted in an earlier thread, I consider it pretty likely that we're now
living in some kind of intentionally-created computer simulation.
But what does it matter, really? We perceive, live and act based on
patterns we recognize, regardless of what kinds of "stuff" these patterns
are emerging from...
ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Samantha Atkins
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:53 PM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: How hard a Singularity?
>
>
> Ben Goertzel wrote:
> > On the other hand, perhaps the delayed Singularity will result in a
> > superhuman AI that cares about humans and thus, once it invents a time
> > machine in 2123, bothers to go back in time and resurrect all those dead
> > humans....
> >
>
> If you posit time machines as a possibility then the SI and
> whatever SIs eventually can possibly evolve into are quite
> likely to already be here! :-) Are you "real" or an SI
> re-experiencing and tweaking its own becoming?
>
> - samantha
>
>
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