<div dir="ltr">Rob's Zoom talk tomorrow (Fri 10/28 3p ET). <br><br>See below. I would recommend Rob's talk regardless of topic. :-)<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">Stephen.Guerin@Simtable.com</a><div>CEO, <a href="http://www.simtable.com/" target="_blank">https://www.simtable.com</a><br><div>1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505<div><div>office: (505)995-0206 <span style="font-size:12.8px">mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Edgar Garcia</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:egarci5@gmu.edu">egarci5@gmu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 12:51 PM<br>Subject: CDS/CSS/CSI Colloquium, Friday 10/28, 3 PM: We Are NOT Living in a Simulation<br>To: <<a href="mailto:CDS-SEMINAR-COLLOQUIUM-ANNOUNC-L@listserv.gmu.edu">CDS-SEMINAR-COLLOQUIUM-ANNOUNC-L@listserv.gmu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-1256201024697453967">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#212121">Title</span></u><span style="color:#212121">: We Are NOT Living in a Simulation</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#212121">Abstract</span></u><span style="color:#212121">: Interest in the question of whether we are living in a simulation has grown in this Century. Philosophical arguments and physical measurements have been brought
to bear on one side or the other. In this talk I will first summarize some of these perspectives and relate them to older debates about realism in representations. I will then survey what actually goes on inside a computer during a run of a simulation model,
in order to suggest that the flow of information on today’s hardware (von Neumann architectures) is sufficiently complex (and peculiar) as to have little in common with reality as we know or experience it. I will briefly speculate about alternative architectures
that could reduce this disconnect but will argue that such machines, were they to exist, make the question of whether we are living in a simulation even less interesting. In any case, guesses about the capabilities of future technologies, while interesting,
are an insubstantial basis for claims about the nature of reality.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#212121">Speaker</span></u><span style="color:#212121">: Rob Axtell is Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at George Mason. His research focuses on using high-performance computing to model
economic processes at large-scale. He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Topic: CDS/CSI/CSS Colloquium</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Time: Oct 28, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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