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  • #31
    Originally posted by Boddington's
    How do we take the simulation outside of the universe?
    Take it to a BNP rally?
    If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Azazel
      No, but I don't believe we have free will.

      Free will is a bull**** expression anyway. WTF is free will?
      I may poke you in the eyes or I may not. What determines?
      (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
      (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
      (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Cruddy


        I choose not to believe you... we've had this argument before.
        We as you and me or just "we"? I don't remember. Then again I don't remember a lot of stuff.


        Anyway, I think very much the same way as uber.

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        • #34

          I may poke you in the eyes or I may not. What determines?

          The connections of the neural network of your brain, constantly shaped by years of different experiences, as well as in-brain interactions ( dreaming, thinking ). Our previous interactions...
          urgh.NSFW

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          • #35
            Physicists may laugh at what Im saying but I think the universe can be understood and predicted thru science.

            None of this quantum physics, I think uncertainty comes only from our limitations, thats all.
            :-p

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Uber KruX
              just because you couldnt measure it or predict it doesnt mean it didnt happen.
              I know. I just find Bill Gates/my existence predetermined a hard thing to get my head around.


              How do we take the simulation outside the universe?
              -What if this universe is a simulation of a slower one?
              Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
              "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
                How do we take the simulation outside the universe?
                -What if this universe is a simulation of a slower one?
                STOP! YOU'RE FRYING MY BRAIN!
                If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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                • #38
                  IW: I don't quite understand what do you mean by that.
                  urgh.NSFW

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by FrustratedPoet


                    Take it to a BNP rally?
                    "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
                    'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

                      How do we take the simulation outside the universe?
                      -What if this universe is a simulation of a slower one?
                      For some reason, probably latent hypno-suggestion, this question gave me an image of a purely radiative universe flashing in and out of existence without its occupents knowledge, and all because massless particles have no concept of time.
                      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                      • #41
                        What definition of free will do we use here?

                        Is no free will = no freedom for own conscient (or however this is spelled) decisions?
                        Blah

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                        • #42
                          Who needs definitions! Let's just argue
                          www.my-piano.blogspot

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                          • #43
                            I forgot this is Poly
                            Blah

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Azazel
                              IW: I don't quite understand what do you mean by that.
                              What if there is a being living outside of this universe, let us for the sake of argument call him Odg. Now Odg has a great talent - he can create universes from particles of matter he has lying around in his back yard. One day, he creates a universe, and its all going well, its inhabitants are worshipping him, gravity works, quantum theory hasn't been discovered yet, everybody is happy. But Odg wants to know what happens next, so he creates a perfect simulation of his universe, running it at twice the speed. - Now in reality () this would have to be a copy of the universe, no less precise a simulation will do. So he has another universe exactly the same as the previous one, running at twice the speed. What if the new universe is our universe?


                              BC:
                              Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
                              "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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                              • #45
                                That's great . But what does this have to do with chance?

                                I think I'll be going to bed now.
                                urgh.NSFW

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