Recent content by excreationist

Well I like to call it a video game. People are willing to pay money to play video games - e.g. the Roy game scenario. At arcades you've got to pay some money each time you want to play... I think the simulation would eventually be able to be run at faster than real time - like in the Roy game...

Our brains also simulate a world during dreams...

I don't think so. I think that means that every possible mathematical structure exists somehow automatically without minds. And I think that is eternal. I don't believe in eternal simulations. That would mean that they could accurately simulate every 10^57 atoms of our Sun and every other...

So you're saying that in order for a person to believe that they're looking at the sun it would have to be simulated very accurately and so simulate 10^57 atoms? (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms) In rendering they normally just simulate photons...

The point I was trying to make was that in the "tract" there is a YEC and then he goes straight to atheism (like me). I agree with you though it is a way for some Christians to keep their faith while having somewhat accurate scientific beliefs.

I thought "avatars" involve a person who has an existence outside of the game. I think I am the player and others are mainly NPCs. Like I said it is a lot cheaper and avoids suffering if the NPCs are p-zombies. So I wouldn't be an NPC. Anyway I think in the far future my experience could be...

Actually I think if AI didn't exist there would be no hard evidence that something could pretend to be conscious without some kind of living brain that resembles a human one. i.e. have the same behaviour without a conscious mind. I thought if something is aware of things to a large enough extent...

I think the AIs in post #589 are all p-zombies. I think if the people in my life were replaced with AIs like in post #589 but were a lot more advanced (e.g. using technlogy from decades in the future) whey would be p-zombies but still seem to be the same people. (or if you can tell the...

In post #588 I mentioned I'm seeing a psychologist (every 5 weeks), a psychiatrist (every 6 months), and a GP (every 4 weeks). I'm not really interested in what reality there is in religion. I just pointed out that the dream thought experiment seemed to be partly based on Hinduism (according to...

Please respond to post #589 So I began with "Are you saying that all the people on this messageboard seem to be conscious so therefore they are conscious and consciousness might not be able to be simulated so therefore we aren't in a simulation?" That might go onto "Are you saying everyone...

Are you saying that all the people on this messageboard seem to be conscious so therefore they are conscious and consciousness might not be able to be simulated so therefore we aren't in a simulation? BTW this was from a year ago where AI could respond in real time with a voice that seemed to...

I'm saying the player is definitely conscious. The others give the impression that they are conscious. If it is possible for NPCs to be conscious then it is up to the creator of the simulation whether they want billions of people to experience suffering and also want to pay billions of times...

Actually I think that is a good thing... https://lifesplayer.com/suffering.php I think the player is conscious though. If an electronic copy of a brain can't be conscious then you could use a biological brain. It would also be far cheaper to make NPCs appear to be conscious (like in the video...

I think that is an advantage - for it not to just be a new idea. I am a fan of this dream thought experiment - apparently it is related to Hinduism: https://web.archive.org/web/20220131000651/https://alanwatts.org/1-2-3-mythology-of-hinduism-pt-1/ I see each session of dreaming as being relevant...

If the latest consoles could play games that are indistinguishable from reality, how many times would people collectively run those games over the coming centuries? Once? There are already over a billion people playing games and they'd play multiple games... Also it isn't about faithfully...