[Buddha-l] ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?

[Jim Peavler]

On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Michel Clasquin wrote:

>
> It is entirely possible that we live in a computer simulation.  
> However, on what basis can we decide that the next level "up" is  
> the computer? It could be a virtual computer being simulated in  
> software a higher-order computer, the way I can simulate a  
> Commodore 64 on my Apple to play old games. And THAT one could be a  
> virtual computer being simulated in an even-higher-order computer  
> and so on and so on .... On what basis can we decide that we've hit  
> the actual hardware?
>

I'm starting to get it!!  It is turtles all the way down and  
computers all the way up?

So we are back to mirrors facing mirrors facing mirrors facing  
mirrors . . . .

Well, at least we know that it is all empty.


> Infinite regression is fun, and it keeps philosophers gainfully  
> employed and off the streets. But the flat-footed Dutchman in me  
> says that if this universe is an illusion, it is a remarkably  
> stable, well-organised and persistent illusion, and I might as well  
> deal with it as being reality.
>
> Play nice now, programs
> Michel the skeptical subroutine
>
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Jim Peavler
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