Comment author:jpender
19 August 2013 10:40:42PM
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Interesting new book that talks about simulated universes running inside simulated universes and how the physical attributes of universes could evolve over time, through a mechanism similar to natural selection. Simulated universes with certain physical traits would tend to survive longer and produce more habitable environments for more advanced civilizations to produce a higher number of simulated universes themselves with an increased amount of those physical traits, and so on. So, over time, there would be a tendency for simulated civilizations to reside in universes with the physics more suitable for life.
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The laws of physics in the basement level universe make it relatively easy to run lots (perhaps an infinite number) of simulations.
Interesting new book that talks about simulated universes running inside simulated universes and how the physical attributes of universes could evolve over time, through a mechanism similar to natural selection. Simulated universes with certain physical traits would tend to survive longer and produce more habitable environments for more advanced civilizations to produce a higher number of simulated universes themselves with an increased amount of those physical traits, and so on. So, over time, there would be a tendency for simulated civilizations to reside in universes with the physics more suitable for life.
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Simulated-Universes-Mark-Solomon/dp/0989832511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376689785&sr=8-1&keywords=computer+simulated+universes