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If simulations imply gods exist, humans must be gods, as we are doing plenty simulations.
by ako 7y ago
If simulations imply gods exist, humans must be gods, as we are doing plenty simulations.
- airocker 7y agoAnd that god could be an evil monopolist?
- RealityVoid 7y agoOh, plenty of them. Being a god doesn't imply being good nor interested too much in the entity you are a god to.
- virgilp 7y agoFor the simulated entities? Yes you are - you have absolute power over the simulation.
- pixelpoet 7y agoI develop physically-based renderers, the output of which is easily mistaken for photographs. I don't presume myself to be a god of course, but it does make me think... what if you piece together enough specialists for this that and the other aspect of a simulation, and run them on a freakishly powerful computer, with a sort of genetic algorithm simulating virtual beings... There's a great short story by Greg Egan about this kind of thing, and even with this "spoiler" context it's still very much worth reading: http://ttapress.com/CrystalNights.pdf http://ttapress.com/CrystalNights.pdf
- rapnie 7y agoGreg Egan - Permutation City. Very nice book.
- chr1 7y agoI didn't like one aspect of the book, when he was trying to show that what simulated people feel doesn't depend on the way simulation runs, he was mainly focusing on computing later timeframes of the simulation before earlier ones, which is not possible.
- chr1 7y agoNot just any simulation, but only a simulation with thinking creatures would imply that god exists. And not in a sense that our universe is created by a god, but in sense that creator of the simulation would be the god of the simulated universe.
- ikeyany 7y agoThat is certainly true for various existing definitions of "god".