“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth, is to sense an experience which is very rare, and very exciting. It usually ends in laughter and delight in the futility of trying to understand what this atom in the universe is, this thing —atoms with curiosity — that looks at itself and wonders why it wonders.”
~ Richard Feynman ~
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Meta-thinking. I need to read more about Feynman.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that we are born so close to technological singularity, makes me suspect that this reality is some sort of experiment.
ReplyDeletelove that last sentence... To me, he seems to imply that we are destined to - one day - find out why we wonder.
ReplyDeleteMindey I. I think the Anthropic Principle applies to your intuition of a synthetic reality as well as it refutes the hypothesis of a divine cosmogony/cosmology. =D
ReplyDeleteSean Walker yes, it does, and I wonder how to correctly incorporate it into the computation of probability.
ReplyDeleteI mean, while there is nobody to ask the question in random universes with laws of physics not suited for life, I'm pretty sure there were people in the history of mankind to ask similar philosophical questions.
So, how to account for the anthropic principle when looking at the evidence that singularity is near? :)
Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu-OCJFX_kE
ReplyDeleteMindey I. I think the natural extension to the Anthropic Principle for the reality-as-simulation hypothesis is that only near technological singularity would people be supposing that reality might be a simulation.
ReplyDeleteSome predict that near and far timelines will break down - lose relevancy - due to an unquantifiable "exponential" advancement. As this happens, we will appproach an "Omega Point." A point in time where we transcend our human limitations and become like angles; our ulitmate destiny. Again, according to some. :)
ReplyDeleteSean Walker _only near technological singularity would people be supposing that reality might be a simulation_ -- depends on how we define 'near', because people for ages had the ideas that the world is just a dream.
ReplyDeleteWell done. Very beautiful
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