[FRIAM] Fwd: GMU CDS/CSS/CSI Colloquium, Friday 10/28, 3 PM: Rob Axtell: We Are NOT Living in a Simulation

Thu Oct 27 15:07:51 EDT 2022

Rob's Zoom talk tomorrow (Fri 10/28 3p ET).

See below. I would recommend Rob's talk regardless of topic. :-)
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From: Edgar Garcia <egarci5 at gmu.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 12:51 PM
Subject: CDS/CSS/CSI Colloquium, Friday 10/28, 3 PM: We Are NOT Living in a
Simulation
To: <CDS-SEMINAR-COLLOQUIUM-ANNOUNC-L at listserv.gmu.edu>

*Title*: We Are NOT Living in a Simulation

*Abstract*: 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.

*Speaker*: 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.

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: CDS/CSI/CSS Colloquium

Time: Oct 28, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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