From: Dirk Bruere (dirk.bruere@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 16:17:15 MST
On 3/7/06, Mitchell Porter <mitchtemporarily@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> For some reason the Simulation Argument is always posed in terms of
> "ancestor simulations", as if the simulators were necessarily evolved from
> real-world humans. But it would make more sense for the hypothesis just to
> be that we are a generic artificial-life simulation, whose physics,
> biology
> and history has no particular relationship to that of the real world.
Maybe less a deliberate sim that a casual 'what-if' by a Jupiter brain.
Anyway, another possible resolution of the Fermi Paradox is the MWI of QM
coupled with the Anthropic Principle.
Dirk
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