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OK, two votes for “We are all officially living in The Matrix”. When
Arnold was elected governator, that was Jon Stewart’s comment.

J

Anthony James wrote:
> You may need to lay off that German beer…
>
> Y’know, of course (it may be in that book – I’m still fighting my way
> through his universe creation “thoughts” – I can only read that

> garbage in small bits), that there is a theory out there that there is
> no such thing as “time” – that everything actually happens (has
> happened? will happen?) at the same moment, and that what we see as
> causality is really our minds putting order to events.
>
> Personally, I’ve decided to start supporting the (admittedly out there

> a bit) theory that we’re actually living in a computer simulation. I
> think that may be my favorite explanation for quantum mechanical
> effects. Then you can blame “causality” on some programmer’s whim.
> And we know what those people are like…

>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Jimbo S. Harris <jimbo@jimbo.net
> <mailto:jimbo@jimbo.net>> wrote:
>
> I have a problem with causality being hampered by the speed of light.
>
> Just because I didn’t see something happen before its effect takes

> place doesn’t mean that it’s not possible. Why should my
> perception of the cause have anything to do with it?
>
> Yes, *most* things happen slower than the speed of light. But why
> is that necessary?
>
> Yes, yes. E=mc^2. But Einstein was *looking* for light to be a

> part of it. His initial postulate was “what do I see if effect
> comes before cause?” and based the whole analysis on the idea that
> cause must precede or be at most simultaneous with effect. That’s
> the “unprovable” axiom at the bottom of it.

>
> I don’t have an experiment to prove otherwise. But I still can’t
> figure out why light speed should have anything to do with causality.
>
> Anthony, burn that book. (:
>
> J

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> Anthony
> IN CARNARI FUMIDUS VICTUS