Sim Theory
Steve Kinney
admin at pilobilus.net
Tue Sep 20 18:57:49 PDT 2016
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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)
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