Are we just computer programs?

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Mar 8, 2008 9:36 PM #89014
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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Mar 9, 2008 10:18 PM #89468
I kinda thought we were in an mmo type thing.
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Mar 9, 2008 10:42 PM #89474
I don't believe one bit of that.
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Mar 9, 2008 10:44 PM #89475
Quote from Brian C
I don't believe one bit of that.


Its an interesting idea not something he's trying to get you to believe in.
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Mar 10, 2008 6:33 AM #89639
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I don't believe it!


HABEEB IT
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Mar 10, 2008 11:18 AM #89687
Twinkie House!
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Mar 10, 2008 12:15 PM #89700
U R In Teh Matrix!
Tak Da Red Pill!
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Mar 10, 2008 9:25 PM #89850
It's interesting but it can't be true.

think about it, what did you do the last time you played the sims?

YOU F[SIZE="2"]UC[/SIZE]KING KILLED EVERYONE.

don't you think if we were computer simulations then there would be ****ing meteors hitting everywhere, fires the size of countries, and NO black people?
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Mar 10, 2008 9:28 PM #89852
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It's interesting but it can't be true.

think about it, what did you do the last time you played the sims?

YOU F[SIZE="2"]UC[/SIZE]KING KILLED EVERYONE.

don't you think if we were computer simulations then there would be ****ing meteors hitting everywhere, fires the size of countries, and NO black people?


He's got a point.
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Mar 10, 2008 9:41 PM #89858
What if they realized we had though and feelings? I really doubt they would allow it to be on the market once they knew this. They would probably hire the government to keep us alive.
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Mar 15, 2008 3:20 PM #92650
no in the matrix real people could go in and do whatever they want but the matrix people were programed to do this if its true I would not be me computer programs might be super advanced but you wouldent be you
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Mar 16, 2008 9:15 AM #93200
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no in the matrix real people could go in and do whatever they want but the matrix people were programed to do this if its true I would not be me computer programs might be super advanced but you wouldent be you

O ya, :heh: is gud point u got ::Happy: U cud be a filosofer.:Ohhhhh:
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Mar 16, 2008 10:08 AM #93225
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I kinda thought we were in an mmo type thing.


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Mar 16, 2008 10:15 AM #93228
Very stupid assumption to make, I think. I doubt we'll have the technology and/or resources in 5 thousand years to make a computer that powerful, much less 50. And if anyone does run a simulation like that, how long do you think they'd monitor it? Don't you think it'd feel a little weird to be one of the programs? There's no possible way for someone to program memories into so many minds and get them all to act correctly, unless he made another program fit it all in, but that outside program would have to be equally, if not more complex than the simulation program. It's highly unlikely, as far as I'm concerned.
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Mar 16, 2008 1:48 PM #93265
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What if they realized we had though and feelings? I really doubt they would allow it to be on the market once they knew this. They would probably hire the government to keep us alive.


Ya if I was the computer dude I would kill all but one person President Bush he would die anyway.