X-Message-Number: 16684 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:12:36 -0700 From: Hugh Hixon <> Subject: But, how can you know if your life is real? Re Message #16670 Let's look at the problem from the point of view of the operator running the simulation: the thing is running along just fine, and then someone in the simulation invents simulations, and in those simulations, someone invents..... ad infinitum. The top simulation stops, because it's trying to run all those nested simulations. The operator reaches for the <reboot> key...... Hugh Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16684