[extropy-chat] damien's psi book

[spike]

> >At 08:40 PM 2/11/2005 -0800, Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> >>Step 10.  Given sufficient knowledge of the meta-device
> >>upon which we could exist, it would in theory be possible to
> >>predict the outcome of a stochastic process better than
> >>would be expected from the law of averages.  This is
> >>getting me nervously close to saying that psi could be
> >>real somehow, even if not at all understood.
> 
> The problem here is that (as far as I could determine) there *isn't* any
> surprising excess of winners en masse in lotteries, and I looked at an
> awful lot of numbers. So if there's an aperture for precognition there,
> lottery punters are not using it (or the psi meisters are very few in
> number and being extremely subtle about it).
> 
> Damien Broderick

Ja I am not suggesting psi could be used to increase ones
odds of winning the lottery, or to reasonably explain
precognition or the other things, unless we could somehow
figure out a sentience-capable meta-device.  I consider
this beyond the immediate horizon, far beyond.  

I am going more towards the notion that quantum weirdness 
might be evidence of the existence of a meta-simulation 
in which we might exist.

spike