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Makes me think we were engineered, then seeded, and from there we evolved. But the architect(s) may or may not still exist/influence our destiny. As we may nev
by Kilimanjaro 16y ago
Makes me think we were engineered, then seeded, and from there we evolved.
But the architect(s) may or may not still exist/influence our destiny. As we may never be able to see our creations flourish when we seed other worlds.
- eru 16y agoInteresting. But doesn't answer any real questions. For--where did the engineer come from?
- maushu 16y agoOutside? I mean, from the cellular automata's perspective we are outside of their universe. Maybe the so called architect (or god as you prefer) that some people like to talk so much is actually outside space/time. He just doesn't affect us (besides the original seeding or big bang) like these people say. Of course, if we go that way we might end up with a discussion about the matrix, what is reality and so on...
- username3 16y agoThe First Cause? The Unmoved Mover?
- jokermatt999 16y agoThat reminds of Greg Egan's Permutation City. The latter half of the book focuses on intelligent simulations created from cellular automata, and the implications of such.
- Qz 16y agoGreg Egan writes some seriously mindblowing stuff. Another good one to check out is Bios, which has quantum computing super DNA, that pre-emptively adapts to the environment by picking the best DNA from parallel universes.
- Jach 16y agoI love that book, I was thinking about it too when I read this article.