X-Message-Number: 11129
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:28:18 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: artificial virtual worlds

In article: <>  
writes:
> As I recall, the
> story revolved around a team of engineers who had perfected uploading.
> However, once uploaded these engineers found that they could create
> synthetic worlds to inhabit. The operation of their simulated bodies
> in this simulated world was so realistic that they could interact with it 
in
> a manner indistiguishable from the interaction of their own physical body
> within our physical world.

In "Science of Aliens", Dr Clifford Pickover discusses the possibility that 
when all matter is exhausted in the universe after 10^100 years, there will 
still exist a "diffuse sea of electrons". Could these be arranged into 
structures to contain the intelligence of immortals left over from the age 
of matter? Could these structures simulate universes of matter that appear 
to their inhabitants to be like the universe we currently inhabit?

On the basis that most of the lifespan of the universe will be spent in this 
state, it is in fact more probable that we inhabit such a simulation than 
the real thing!

Dr Pickover speculates further about way life could survive in this 

post-matter age of the universe in "Science of Aliens". Further details can be 
found on

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=046507314X/longevitybooksA/


Incidentally the book touches on cryonics as a means of space flight by alien 
star travellers. It uses the word "cryonics" and quotes the work of AU Smith, I 
Suda, etc.

-- 
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