Autodesk founder John Walker - Re: [www-vrml] the model to end all models

[steve guynup <exposedfield@yahoo.com>]

very interesting discussion, found on kurtwelAI.net ..
here is short excerpt but whole article is interesting
http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-03/000664.html

Leonard Susskind's new book, The Cosmic Landscape pits
intelligent design against string theory and the
megaverse.

Surprisingly, Autodesk founder John Walker sides with
intelligent design, but not by a deity -- by
post-Singularity intelligences creating a reality
simulation: "What would we expect to see if we
inhabited a simulation? Well, there would probably be
a discrete time step and granularity in position fixed
by the time and position resolution of the simulation
-- check, and check: the Planck time and distance
appear to behave this way in our universe. There would
probably be an absolute speed limit to constrain the
extent we could directly explore and impose a locality
constraint on propagating updates throughout the
simulation -- check: speed of light. There would be a
limit on the extent of the universe we could observe
-- check: the Hubble radius is an absolute horizon we
cannot penetrate, and the last scattering surface of
the cosmic background radiation limits electromagnetic
observation to a still smaller radius. There would be
a limit on the accuracy of physical measurements due
to the finite precision of the computation in the
simulation -- check: Heisenberg uncertainty principle
-- and, as in games, randomness would be used as a
fudge when precision limits were hit-check: quantum mechanics."

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