NDRU said:

a simple yet thoroughly adequate solution. brilliant.
what is birth then? a new game? a new game within the game?

NDRU said:

hey! we quicksave the same way...only with far less messy results.

evenstar3 said:

the juice is the data, silly.

that's why you're more careful in life - less quicksave opportunities.

Spookymuffin said:

birth is just what it appears to be. It extends the game when parts (and possibly the characters themselves) get too old. It keeps the game fresh, but maintains lineage and, thus, familiarity, continuity.

NDRU said:

I wonder if the computers ever crash and we all freeze. of course we wouldn't be aware when it happens. what would happen if the computer rebooted?

I am real! The rest of ya'll are figments of my imagination!

coolcat said:

i hate to say this, but you are not a cool cat. you are a racist, homophobic, neo-fascist cat.

Spookymuffin said:

hmm, natural catastrophe?

Get out of my head, you little cunt.

NDRU said:

Surely not. Everything would spontaneously reset back to the beginning, or back to the last save - including the world. We might all suddenly become children again; of course with no recollection of the past that would now be our futures.

Number23 said:

I hate philosophy and theology with a horrible passion, but every now and then I must divulge in it in order to clear up the mess inside my head. Join in, pass comment, and please avoid the tosh you tend to write. I like concise messages.

Spookymuffin said:

You better watch it or I'll imagine you out of existence!

coolcat said:

just try, and watch your reality implode before you as I stay here.

Spookymuffin said:

Are you still there?

coolcat said:

yes.

Spookymuffin said:

Damn it!

coolcat said:

enjoy reconstructing your reality.

Nope, nope I'm pretty certain that it's the water reflecting off the sky.

Spookymuffin said:

well, yes, assuming it is a single game

I suppose I was thinging of us as just one of many programs, though. Natural catastrophe would be the "cause" of any lost data

You guys should read 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan... Consciousness is periodically backed up in case of biological death... In case someone dies... the consciousness from the last backup is put in a new body... The stuff that happened after the last backup is lost...

NDRU said:

deeeeep.

Did you see that one thread with the guy with the ugly scrotum? And the nail?

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Saved that pic for laterrrrr.

Cool alter accounts spooky... as for the matrix theory, I'm totally into it. Each time humans create machines to do the work for them (by Newtons 3 law of equal and opposite reactions) the computer also becomes part human in the sense that it does work in a way that mimics the human. So each time we create an alter identity, we are basically trying to mimic another person/character/machine.

I wonder how the idea of God evolved from allocating responsibilities to the inexplicable..

slicksight said:

From lack of knowledge, evidently - without any logic or rationale, humans created with their imagination a divine entity to suit their needs. There is a clearly illustrated link between the arrival of sun worship and the evolution of the human imagination.

Spookymuffin said:

is he hot?

slicksight said:

So machines are, to some degree, "created in our image?"

NDRU said:

and if you think about it - of course they would be. Their logic patterns mimic ours.

ZombieKitten said:

Can I film you at it?

Spookymuffin said:

And to them, we would seem like gods, YES GODS!!!