[ExI] geometry of solar system

[William Flynn Wallace]

You guys talk about sims a lot, and I am a newby at it.  If we are all
sims, what ever that is, then some god somewhere is making a lot of boring
people nearly indistinguishable from the next person.

Are we all living in a big computer?  Is that the question?

I was thinking of Isaac going to a local university.

bill w

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] geometry of solar system
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> Pity the poor layperson, who asks "Does the Earth really go around the
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> Your answer  "Well, it depends on your point of reference."  He doesn't
> want to hear that.  He wants a yes or no.  Just like the nature/nurture
> posts of late, it's complicated, but requires us to simplify for the
> nontech people.  'Well, that's probably the best way for you to think about
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> Now he feels patronized and belittled.
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> BillW, I spent most of my career as a satellite guidance and control guy.
> The software aboard those rigs always assume itself, the satellite is the
> center of the universe, with the spinning planet revolving about it, with
> the moon out there doing what it does around the barycenter of the
> earth/moon system and the and the sun doing what it does about the
> barycenter of the earth/sun system, with slight corrections for Jupiter
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> You can write the equations such that you are the center of the universe
> and make everything work perfectly.  Quaternions are forgiving that way.
> Any point of reference is as good as any other.  If one guides one’s own
> actions, using oneself at the (0,0,0,0) point has its advantages.
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> Once you ponder that for a while, the notion becomes clearer that we are
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> Or rather you are, BillW: we are all just avatars in your orbit in your
> software consciousness.
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> Have you any way to disprove that?  Wouldn’t it explain a lotta things?
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