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"We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft"

Nice move, then we can all move to Minecraft, when we are finished with this planet and have used it up.

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I just finished Egan’s excellent Permutation City, which has a fun and CS-heavy take on this.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Permutation-City/Greg...

I presume you mean Computer Science, not Counter-Strike

Maybe we can. If you assume the mind is the constant in our reality - opposite to the traditional view, in which the physical world is supporting the mind - then we should be able to move into a virtual one. Maybe we're just layering worlds on top of each other, and old ones can become irrelevant, forgotten and disappear. Our current world could be just a virtual one, built on top something long forgotten, and will in time vanish when we move into Minecraft.

I'm not sure about that. Spending any decent time in nature has a wholeness to it, it can feel "attuning" to some weird sense of self and how we fit in with it, maybe having to do with an evolved response?

Why would this not work in the traditional view? I have a hard time imagining a mind that can only operate in one specific reality, even in principle. How would you condition on it?

I was thinking more along the lines of the show "Upload".

Edit: https://youtu.be/0ZfZj2bn_xg

Now I get all the metaverse hype

You beat me to it! :)

Can't say I've seen anyone being hyped about it other than that guy whose last name starts with Zuck and ends with berg and like 3 weirdos online that work for him.

There are open source projects: https://github.com/M3-org/awesome-metaverse

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