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To: koan who wrote (775141)	3/16/2014 11:02:39 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573311

"Good thread. Is the universe a simulation?" so you believe in ID, do your liberal friends know

To: koan who wrote (775141)	3/16/2014 3:08:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573311

And whose program would that be? We really could be living in someone's program. Computers are analog and the universe seems analog. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29390382 Good thread. Is the universe a simulation?

To: koan who wrote (775141)	3/16/2014 3:12:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573311

>> We really could be living in someone's program. No, we really couldn't. >> Computers are analog and the universe seems analog. WTF. Just WTF.

To: koan who wrote (775141)	3/16/2014 3:27:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573311

Computers are analog and the universe seems analog. Don't you mean digital? The concept of digital physics has been around for a while. Zuse is considered to have created the concept almost 50 years ago. Greg Bear explored it in his novel Anvil of Stars.