[extropy-chat] effing snow in a simulated universe

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Dec 6 04:39:52 UTC 2005


At 08:23 PM 12/5/2005 -0800, Spike wrote:

>Why aren't all the branches different?  It
>is almost like the molecules know what the other molecules are
>doing somehow, the ones that are on the other five branches, and
>that somehow causes them all to do almost the same thing
>six times simultaneously.  How can that be?
>
>Isn't that evidence we are living in some kind of a simulation?

No, silly puppy; god forms *each snowflake by Hand*, and tacks on its 
whiteness quale.

The interesting question is what makes god so damned symmetrical.

Damien Broderick





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