<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Maybe Stewart finally warmed up. His B'ham show was somewhere in the 80s.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">My choir director at the Methodist church was John Stewart. Eventually he became the college's president. My chairman called me and told me after the board met, so I called him to congratulate him and he didn't know it!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So at the first convocation we had he mentioned that I was the first to tell him. (He never did know how I knew.) Then I called out 'Mr. President, you do know that relations between the profs and the pres have been pretty rough in the past, and so I thought I'd remind you that your name, Stewart, derives from 'ward of the sty'. Biggest laugh I ever got. He just grinned.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 5:33 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1088874836153122635gmail-m_3512001445276509764WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">This is surprising Bill. I went to an Al Stewart concert at the Paul Mason winery above Saratoga. He put on one hell of a show up there, connected with the audience, lots of interaction, had unscripted things happen such as Stewart made a mistake, Peter White looked over at him, both guys kept playing their guitars, Stewart said “Oh he’s right, Peter’s right” then they went into the next passage about as seamlessly as if they had planned it that way. The audience loved it. That was a great show.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Stewart is a wine collector. There he was at the Paul Mason winery. During his show he went on and on about this wine and that wine and what he was doing with his life. That was about 20 yrs ago.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 20, 2019 2:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Time travel in simulations<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">I went to an Al Stewart concert in Birmingham many years ago. Had bought his record and really liked it. He was a complete dud in concert. Just him, no talk to the audience. Might as well have stayed home and played the LP. bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:41 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Time travel in simulations<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">>…<span style="color:black">You guys are just too clever</span>…</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">On the contrary, I am ready to argue that as a species we are not quite clever enough. Very close, but just not quite. Or not yet.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">>…<span style="color:black">What I want to know: how will we know? Where would we look for evidence? If the answers include bosons or black holes, just forget it. Also- lacking any evidence, someone has come up with odds. Just how can one calculate odds without data? Or are they just having fun? bill w</span></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">There are tantalizing clues. That whole quantum theory business, that bit about a particle disappears here and reappears there at the quantum level, that to me has to be evidence (or if not evidence, then indication) that at the quantum level, we are looking at some kind of digital simulation. </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">If the universe is a sim at the quantum level, then perhaps it is likewise way up to the atomic scale, perhaps that too is a sim dependent on values calculated at the smaller scale, and so on up to the cellular level, to our scale, to the entire visible universe, to everything, all a big sim. Then you and I are avatars. Or rather, you are. I am the only one here. Or we are the avatars, and you are the only one.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Check this:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfj6f0NldlI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfj6f0NldlI</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Damn that’s a lonely line of reasoning.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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