-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2016 10:09 PM, grarpamp wrote:
So many people have proposed we're simulated... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Now why would such an extremely advanced civilization / collective want to simulate us? Is this an unanswered question?
Why have I spent an ungodly number of hours watching Mandelbrot plots render, tweaking the scale and XY coordinates, iteration depth, coloring rules, etc? Can a mandelbug imagine a thing made of meat examining it like a stained specimen on a microscope slide, or why it would want to do that? Same question IMO. Years ago I was a compulsive meditator. One time I got all the way outside the Universe and the first thing I noticed was a dingy brass plaque riveted to the bottom of it that said "For Amusement Purposes Only." Some old Taoist sage or other supposedly dreamed that he was a butterfly. Then a butterfly dreamed that he was some old Taoist sage or other. Some hundreds of years later a melancholic drug addict asked, "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" Then some propagandists made a music video about a music video about a dream within a dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXZyTx4TzLg :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX4ekdAAoJEECU6c5XzmuquN4H/3a7pwx2hxzKPV65OXhx1YCK s6MTx8zelY3by2nxwHMioF6sR86JiujNI3UsO4nk36XuAyJne6CtURXkHNtitS5F HknlWk23CiX4SOT+3PNyXfyQrZqCRsBmtYSIwEt4zr1Tmk7wGaDNYBW3p84O5V7m uu3KBEW67YfZd9G7cEjHOHRtp9pIcf4UIrJN3eOC+6IBxVFXH0HpzGLSMsO04Ci7 6BZCAw2SeMjvWuyqKP8TUNPL98gnkwt2O/Kb/oWSajIVsb2N3ftnP9ijvfRqIJ2S qOUlDXB9V8uXz1Oax+kYkDPxjZYNKYrzF9broYHCEdUDxT27+DXOGe9gDfOuVKc= =l6rr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----