[extropy-chat] The Simulation Argument

[Kevin Freels]

You are assuming of course that the Big Bang is the beginning of things. It
could very well be just some point in the grand scheme of things.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Wilken" <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] The Simulation Argument


>
> On 3 Dec 2004, at 18:31, John K Clark wrote:
> > Yes but it's not clear to me that it forbids an infinity of worlds
> > either.
> > And even if Many Worlds is wrong there could still be an infinite
> > number of
> > real super civilizations; the observable universe is finite but the
> > entire
> > universe is certainly much larger, possibly infinitely larger.
>
> John:
>
> But there has been a finite amount of time since the Big Bang. The the
> universe might be bigger than we can see, but not infinitely so. I had
> thought astronomers had seen pretty close to the beginning of things.
>
> best, patrick
>
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