Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!sdcrdcf!csun!sdsu!caasi 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. Lines: 14 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.