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      matt kuykendall on 21 Aug 14
       
      Excellent integration!  Amazing linkage and connection! 
  • I also believe it to be fundamentally flawed.
  • that could not possibly be attributed to a mere simulation,
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  • Bo Burnham named ‘A Letter from God’, he implies (from God’s own perspective – if there is such a higher power) that our lives are just a bizarre ‘game of Sims’
  • numbers themselves only first came about with the introduction of language to our society
  • mean that the imagination is the most trustworthy Way of Knowing: if we all believed every single word that came out of a child’s mouth, we would all be constantly dodging lava seeping through cracks in the sidewalk, and checking for dragons under our beds before we fell asleep. Perhaps the imagination is a window into another dimension, but without proof of this, there is little that could possibly convince m
  • emotion and perception.
  • am a firm believer in standing up for the things I believe to be true - despite being willing to change my perspective when it is blatantly obvious that I am wrong.
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Is photography art? This guy says no - 0 views

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tok art

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    "Peter Lik's hollow, cliched and tasteless black and white shot of an Arizona canyon isn't art - and proves that photography never will be"
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Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [1 of 3] - YouTube - 0 views

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tok

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    awesome lesson plan for math! see training notes!!!
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Is the Universe a Simulation? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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TOK universe cosmology

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  • This may strike you as very unlikely. But the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom has argued that we are more likely to be in such a simulation than not. If such simulations are possible in theory, he reasons, then eventually humans will create them — presumably many of them. If this is so, in time there will be many more simulated worlds than nonsimulated ones. Statistically speaking, therefore, we are more likely to be living in a simulated world than the real one.
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Is the Universe a Simulation? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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tok cosmology

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  • Its truths are objective, necessary and timeless.
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      True? Or No? 
  • Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom
  • nd yet there are many mathematical concepts — from esoteric numerical systems to infinite-dimensional spaces — that we don’t currently find in the world around us. In what sense do they exist?
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  • The great logician Kurt Gödel argued that mathematical concepts and ideas “form an objective reality of their own, which we cannot create or change, but only perceive and describe.”
  • According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it. Thus when we discover a mathematical truth, we are simply discovering aspects of the code that the programmer used.
  • Do they exist somewhere, a set of immaterial objects in the enchanted gardens of the Platonic world, waiting to be discovered? Or are they mere creations of the human mind?
  • tatistically speaking, therefore, we are more likely to be living in a simulated world than the real one.
  • In a recent paper, “Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation,” th
  • Are we prepared to take the “red pill,” as Neo did in “The Matrix,” to see the truth behind the illusion — to see “how deep the rabbit hole goes”? Perhaps not yet.
  • he possibility of the Platonic nature of mathematical ideas remains — and may hold the key to understanding our own reality.
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