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From: caasi@sdsu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Self Simulation
Keywords: dreaming simulation
Message-ID: <3041@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 16:55:10 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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Posted: Thu Jun  2 12:55:10 1988

In article <33245@linus.UUCP> writes:
>I was captured by the notion of self-simulation, and started day-dreaming,
>imagining myself as an actor inside a simulation.  I found that, as the
>director of the day-dream, I had to delegate free will to my simulated
>self.  The movie free-runs, sans script.  It was just like being asleep.
>
>So, perhaps a robot who engages in self-simulation is merely dreaming
>about itself.  That's not so hard.  I do it all the time.
>
>--Barry Kort

Wasn't it Chuang-Tzu who wrote:  Once I dreamt I was a butterfly. 
After I awoke, I didn't know if I was a man dreaming about being
a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming about being a man.