Re:The Death of Richard Dawkins: A short story by Steve Yegge
by pshc on Monday May 18, 2009 @04:08PM
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It's along the same lines as "A programmer's view of the universe, Part 2" post about MarioKart.
The point of the whole Dawkins/COMA bit is to show that the universe is yet another embedded system from which data can flow in and out. The two human boys being teleported into the virtual tour is akin to Luigi's kart being "zapped" out of a video game and into some other process space. The odds of either occurring are astronomical, but the singularity, being a sufficently smart programmer of the universe, intervenes to make the former happen.
If there is a main point I guess it would be that what lies beyond the boundary of the universe is unknowable and stranger than human imagination.
The point of the whole Dawkins/COMA bit is to show that the universe is yet another embedded system from which data can flow in and out. The two human boys being teleported into the virtual tour is akin to Luigi's kart being "zapped" out of a video game and into some other process space. The odds of either occurring are astronomical, but the singularity, being a sufficently smart programmer of the universe, intervenes to make the former happen.
If there is a main point I guess it would be that what lies beyond the boundary of the universe is unknowable and stranger than human imagination.