[extropy-chat] Re: [extropy-chat Digest] Timeshifting

[ben]

Samantha said:

> Is a sim perhaps what happens when a sufficiently powerful mind
> ruminates over the past and possible different branch points?


Well, seeing as we are constantly making models of the world, including
other people, in our puny minds, i think that is almost certain to be true!

I had never thought of it this way before, always imagining the 'sim'
argument to apply to something like the equivalent of somebody playing a
computer game, or doing some lab work.
Now it occurs to me that we are just somebody's daydream! (which,
ironically, would make the god-squad correct in a lot of their beliefs)

... can you hear the sound of collapsing nested realities, as some
superbeing rouses itself from an idle daydream, to go and do some real work?

ben