Brain Cells and the Universe

[Zone]

I don't think there's a Christian denomination which covers that. We'll have to start our own if Martin Savage and his team find any proof for the simulation idea.

There are no Christian denominations that cover God entering his own "simulation" in human form as his own son?

[Confused Ape]

I don't think there's a Christian denomination which covers that. We'll have to start our own if Martin Savage and his team find any proof for the simulation idea.

There are no Christian denominations that cover God entering his own "simulation" in human form as his own son?

I don't think there are any denominations which say that God built a computer to run his simulation on.

meh, it's jut a fractal....

I think there's a 99.9% chance of you being right. I'm wondering how long it will be before someone uses this to say that the universe is a giant brain so consciousness is definitely the ground of all being.

[pocaracas]

There are no Christian denominations that cover God entering his own "simulation" in human form as his own son?

I don't think there are any denominations which say that God built a computer to run his simulation on.

Let's register computerology at the patent office and make a ton of cash off the gullible nerds!

meh, it's jut a fractal....

I think there's a 99.9% chance of you being right. I'm wondering how long it will be before someone uses this to say that the universe is a giant brain so consciousness is definitely the ground of all being.

Hasn't someone done that, already?
I'd find it odd if we were the first to think of this, given that I'm always late to the party.

[Confused Ape]

Let's register computerology at the patent office and make a ton of cash off the gullible nerds!

It would cause too much confusion because the word is currently being used for something else.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...puterology

Computerology is the science and knowledge of computers.
He knows everything about computers! He took 5 years of Computerology in college.

Hasn't someone done that, already?
I'd find it odd if we were the first to think of this, given that I'm always late to the party.

Tod Siler might be claiming it. (See post 5 in this topic) I can't be sure because I'm still trying to figure out what he's talking about. I find his style of writing somewhat obscure.

[JDFlood]

Maybe that's the real answer to whether we're living in a computer simulation. The universe itself is the computer.

You've seen the movie 13th Floor, right?

[Zone]

Let's register computerology at the patent office and make a ton of cash off the gullible nerds!

I was thinking you could just work it into Christianity to make it seem more modern and believable. Say Jesus was the AI of the computer Matrix. Instead of something supernatural it's proper scientific, sort of.

[Confused Ape]

Maybe that's the real answer to whether we're living in a computer simulation. The universe itself is the computer.

You've seen the movie 13th Floor, right?

No I haven't. But after wandering around the internet and seeing all kinds of ideas from consciousness is the ground of all being to we're living in a some kind of virtual reality like in The Matrix it wasn't hard to come up with it.

[Angrboda]

[Anomalocaris]

Somewhere, probably in the notes that I lost last fall, I had a reference to the idea that as the universe evolves, because of the effect of expansion combined with the nature of gravity and the distribution of matter, travel between clusters of intelligence (presumably intelligent civilizations) will come to be constrained along filaments like the axons and dendrites in neoronal substrates, leaving vast expanses of space completely dead, save for a constant river of information traveling two and from the clusters on these filaments.

It would be interesting to contemplate whether, over periods of tens to hundred, or even thousands of billions of years, the universe as a whole would come to exhibit some emergent property on a very large scale as a result of advanced -therefore powerful - civilizations exchanging material and information along there filements, in a manner vaguely analogous to an organism exhibiting emergent behavioral properties as a result of information flow along its nerves.

[JDFlood]

With respect to the similarity of cosmology and brain. When I was studying geology I was struck by the amazing and perfect relationship between the underlying atomic structure and the shape and relationship of all the crystal faces.You can look at the atomic structure and predict exactly the crystal structures that will form, at billions of time the scale. So, it should not be surprising to see selfsimilarit at vastly different scales. Really cool pictures. JD