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The Egg (2009)

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Re: The Egg (2009)

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walden42 wrote: post #7
spindritf wrote: post #5

How can you bootstrap such a world with only one soul? (I know, not the right question.)

One soul manifests itself as endless possibilities, including you, me, and the world. That's the core of advaita vedanta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta

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Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by thenerdfiles »

kordless wrote: post #151
thenerdfiles wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do souls have cryptographic hashes?

Assuredly they do. It's intriguing you replied with this comment to the guy that will probably bring that to pass for all software processes.

I know exactly who I asked this of, and that's why I asked it of him.

Re: The Egg (2009)

#155

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thenerdfiles wrote: post #154
kordless wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuredly they do. It's intriguing you replied with this comment to the guy that will probably bring that to pass for all software processes.

I know exactly who I asked this of, and that's why I asked it of him.

That would imply we're all thinking the same thing then. That continues to be interesting to me.

Re: The Egg (2009)

#156

Post by thenerdfiles »

thenerdfiles wrote: post #154
kordless wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuredly they do. It's intriguing you replied with this comment to the guy that will probably bring that to pass for all software processes.

I know exactly who I asked this of, and that's why I asked it of him.

whom*, you baboon.

Re: The Egg (2009)

#157

Post by thenerdfiles »

kordless wrote: post #155
thenerdfiles wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know exactly who I asked this of, and that's why I asked it of him.

That would imply we're all thinking the same thing then. That continues to be interesting to me.

That we could all be considering a concept that has, even if true, a statistically insignificant measurable signature?

    God: Oh yes, yes! Souls... I remember those. Great idea at the time. Yeah, I wrote those a loooong time ago. They're causally insignificant now, I'm pretty sure. Obviously it's all automated by now.
Or something Stephensonian, like the protofestering of a fledgling clan of digital spiritalists secretly brooding over the core belief-set of Hackerdom as it is scripted?

Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by jholman »

ngpio wrote: post #37
dhughes wrote: post #18

Another good short story similar to this is Asimov's "The Last Question." http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

And "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer. And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're short, provocative scifi. Here's my list of favorites: * Ted Chiang - Understand - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm * Ted Chiang - Exhalation - http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te... * Ted Chiang - Hell I…

I've taken my time, over the past week, savouring these, and I must now come back to say thank you very much!

Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by LJG »

falcor84 wrote: post #126
ngpio wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer. And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're short, provocative scifi. Here's my list of favorites: * Ted Chiang - Understand - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm * Ted Chiang - Exhalation - http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te... * Ted Chiang - Hell I…

* Robert Heinlein - All you Zombies - http://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Heinlein--All%20you%20zombies.h...

Thank you. It is a very good one. The ending, especially.
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