Re: Simulation argument in the NY Times

From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 20:21:48 MDT


On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 06:41:27PM +0100, James Dunlop wrote:
> However, I wonder whether this concept has been, or could be,
> applied to cosmological theories in any way whatsoever, even if
> only providing a theoretical model in which a practical theory is
> eventually postulated from.

Like say, for example, floating point errors at the extreme margins
of the large and small?

Would look a lot like quantum uncertainty, don't you think?

(Disclaimer: I stole this idea from someone's .sig)

-Robin

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