: Unless you view time from "outside", as just
: another dimension in a big multidimensional matrix of
: spacetime distortions; in which case, something
: outside the universe, obeying laws not a part of our
: own universe, must have created it at some point in
: it's universal time, if its universe has time, or even
: dimensions as we know them. Could be, say, a purely
: thought-oriented system, operating entirely in logical
: and mathematical concepts, and the more complex,
: sentient programs wrote a program that defines space
: and time and has it all layed out "on disk"
: so to speak. I mean, our computer simulations are the
: same way; we created a device in our physical universe
: which defined into existance a virtual (from our
: perspective) universe of logic and math, which we
: instructed to build a program defining into existance
: another sub-virtual universe of laws similar to our
: own.
You mean, like the way the Mythworld is a simulation running on a Maraverse computer? Yeah, but you still get to ask where that "higher" universe came from. Sooner or later, something either created itself or was eternal (I'm counting a place where "time has no meaning" as eternal).
--SiliconDream
