From: Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 1996 - 15:58:14 MST
>But it's not a simulation because there is nothing to simulate, in your
>scenario God makes the universe to solve problems and make interesting
>structures. I can't see any reason except perversity to start such a
universe
>at such a low level, not help us out when we get into serious trouble, and
>most important of all, not give us at the very start the inheritance of
>acquired characteristics. I'm no saint but I couldn't sleep at night if I
>knew that generations of conscious beings were suffering horribly in my
>laboratory.
Perhaps this 'God' has infinite CPU processing power so he creates a
universe with instructions to create life and goes onto creating the next
one. Meanwhile all these universe files are open while he's designing new
ones and they're growing and flourishing with life and he/she thinks to
him/herself, awww, I'll get back to it eventually such as we sometimes do
when we add favorite bookmarks on the web and eventually it adds up into a
huge list which we never get back to edit.
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