Name:
Paul Anderergg
Description:
Here are a couple
dozen links about simulation.
http://www.bottomlayer.com/index.html
That would be this site.
http://www.bottomlayer.com/bottom/argument/argumentframes1.html
That would be this site's early synopsis of the argument for a
computation-based universe
http://www.edge.org/documents/analog_digital.html
http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/
Edward Fredkin's home page, with collected papers.
http://www.peterussell.com/Reality/realityart.html#Mathematics
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/thematrix/
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/computeruniverse.html
Jurgen Schmidhuber's discussion of how a universe should be
computed
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/everything/html.html
Jurgen Schmidhuber's home page
http://root.novylen.net/writings/musings/proreligion.text
http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/2002-June/012387.html
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020527/020527-16.html
http://www.simulation-argument.com
Nick Bostrom's exposition of why logic implies that the
universe is a computer simulation. Kinda similar to Tipler's argument, but
takes it to its logical conclusion.
http://www.pericson.com/writings/simulation.shtml
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/07/01/MN108224.DTL
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_argument
An on line encyclopedia entry, based on Nick Bostrom's
arguments
http://www.provide.net/~dougklim/PhysSim.html
http://fips00.physik.uni-kl.de/fips/teilnehmer/newsticker/history/02-06-05.html
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~eet23/computer.html
http://www.asklepia.org/chaosophy/chaosophy21.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech_pr.html
Wired magazine's excellent survey of Fredkin/Wolfram/Zuse
thinking, December 2002 issue.
http://www.junklight.com/greymatter/archives/00000050.htm
http://www.ctraces.com/Circuit_Traces/CT1_4/physics.html
http://www.textfiles.com/occult/artilife.txt
http://home.epix.net/~tcurtin/eternal.htm
http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2000/09/000028.html
http://clawww.lmu.edu/faculty/tshanahan/HN-TiplerTXT.html
Omni magazine's interview with Frank Tipler, and review of his
1994 book, "The Physics of Immortality." Contemplates a future
where the universe will be a computer simulation, but neglects the possibility
that the universe already is a computer simulation. According to Wired
magazine (noted above), Tipler has since recognized the possibility.
http://www.honors.org/AHR/97AHR/hutch.html
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html
http://www.provide.net/~dougklim/PhysSim.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/08/21/ecfqed21.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/08/21/ixconn.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=109562
Description:
Karl Svozil, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna. 20 years of papers posted. Highly recommended for technical and philosophical content. Svozil the physicist takes seriously the game/player scenario for computer-generated universe. Dualism is not to be feared, but considered.