... who posits that we live in a virtual world (similar on the surface to, but unlike, "The Matrix"). In particular, he poses the following scenario: There exist a race of advanced humanlike beings - posthumans (probably descendants of humans.) These beings, in order to understand themselves and their ancestry, have created a massive supercomputer in which *we* all live, as virtual humans. The laws of the universe we infer around us, our environment, our past, everything is a virtual existence. Anything we can attribute to natural laws (as we see them) or supernatural phenomena are a part of this virtual reality.
In particular, the NYT article states the following: "It's unsettling to think of the world being run by a futuristic computer geek, although we might at last dispose of that classic theological question: How could God allow so much evil in the world? For the same reason there are plagues and earthquakes and battles in games like (WoW). Peace is boring, Dude."
Thoughts?
2007-08-14
07:26:29
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