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  1. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    Thanks that is very interesting.... it sounds like another form of simulation type thing - except it is saying the desired realities were already existing rather than being created on demand.... though I'm unable to visualise anything at all - and my dreams are usually ghost-like shadows when...
  2. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    A more religious related interactive story:
  3. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    An early form of limitless simulations are these interactive stories where I used OpenAI's Playground a year ago in GPT3.5 - the bold is what I typed:
  4. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I think just about anything you could desire could be simulated or approximated in simulations in the future (or far future) assuming you had control over the simulation... e.g. Say you wanted to go to Heaven for an eternity - this would require boredom to be eliminated and eternity could be...
  5. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    I mean you'd say it is flawed or not relevant rather than say that I've rebutted your argument. I think in academic papers the writers just include summaries or short quotes of their references. Your 900+ word quote doesn't even use the term "determinism". Maybe you just thought it was relevant...
  6. excreationist

    Mark Manson's "Life is a Video Game" analogy - and the "cheats"

    So in the analogy life has 5 levels of problems that should be overcome with "solutions" rather than turning to "distractions".
  7. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    https://jstem.org/jstem/index.php/JSTEM/article/view/2513 "...40% of students in engineering do not make it through the first year, and of those who make it, 30% fail in many of the fundamental engineering courses..." When I was in a jobs fair in high school I noticed engineering once or twice...
  8. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    Well I did start university doing an Applied Maths and Statistics degree because a teacher suggested it and I was good at high school maths. Then I changed to Maths and Supercomputing. I didn't study in the second(?) year maths subjects and ended up failing them all. I wasn't used to having to...
  9. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    My strength is in I.T. related things (like simulations), not maths. see: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3135139/deriving-the-nautilus-shell-spiral-equation I'm not sure an exact equation can be found - but there are at least approximations. The problem with the golden spiral is that...
  10. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    It doesn't fit the golden spiral very well:
  11. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    When I was in high school I used "Fractint" quite a bit (which lets to explore a large variety of fractals). Later I combined custom animations of fractals into a music video. I've used computer programs where you make fractal trees and ferns and mountains. I have understood the mathematical...
  12. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    1974 and earlier? Note I have a Bachelor of Information Technology and a Bachelor of Software Engineering - what is your background? Apparently it takes about 10,000 hours to master a topic. Do you mean Python? (if you even have any idea what that is) There's no point - whatever "reference"...
  13. excreationist

    Mark Manson's "Life is a Video Game" analogy - and the "cheats"

    For me, these is the most influential set of ideas I've come across in my life. I also like how these fit into a single web page. Mark Manson is the author of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" which I found pretty interesting. I like how he includes some humour...
  14. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    Note in a computer program a particular input always results in an identical output - unless you add randomness to the code - which is considered "pseudo-randomness" (due to it being technically deterministic)
  15. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    So basically a bell curve? What about not being over time? What about generating what the individual dice rolls are? Also an example of a non-random fractal is the Mandelbrot set which has a very simple equation: Zn+1 = Zn2 + C Do you have any specific fractal formulas/procedures that relate to...
  16. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    @shunyadragon Well computer simulations are normally 100% deterministic anyway unless you introduce "pseudo" randomness.
  17. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    Would you call it a clockwork universe? That's what I'd call a completely deterministic non-random world. Well I am saying that it has no hard evidence - that's why I call it "non-obvious". "......I think ALL evidence of God and the paranormal can be explained by skeptics as coincidence...
  18. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    What about my quote from Stephen Hawking: Is Hawking wrong? Anyway my opinion which I explore in this thread is that an intelligent force could be guiding what's happening on a quantum (or larger) level even if it gives the impression that it is random or whether it acts how you think it does...
  19. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    Well Einstein also thought that quantum physics wasn't genuinely random and there are "hidden variables". Apparently the Copenhagen interpretation says that quantum physics is genuinely random. The many worlds interpretation says it is deterministic though it is random as to which world you end...
  20. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    They're not perfect predictions and I'd say this is because they involve chance. Just like dice and evolution. BTW on average a particular number on a dice comes up 1/6 of the time but it is possible for one number to come up ten times in a row....
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