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To: who_would_fardels_bear; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; AndrewC
The simulator, however, is outside the simulation and can move all of the objects in the simulator to the next state. If the simulator's clock cycle and resolution are finer than can be measured by those quasi-sentient objects in the simulator, then they will perceive themselves to be in a world with continuous time and space.

This is very, very good, wwfb, IMHO. Add consciousness and free will into the mix and the "objects" could move themselves to the next state. Were it also possible, and I think that it is, for the "Mover" to be simultaneously within AND external to the system, then I believe "our" model would even better represent reality.

As you see, some of my thoughts DO go "bump" in the night. Speculation is "free" is it not? ... ;-}

193 posted on 08/03/2003 1:52:48 PM PDT by Phaedrus
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To: Phaedrus
Thank you so much for the very interesting thought experiment!
194 posted on 08/03/2003 3:21:54 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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