Neologism Tuesday, Oct 17 2006
random 8:24 am
Recursiverse - noun.
1. A universe with so many nested simulations that no one remembers where the basement is.
2. The phenomenon on transhumanist mailing lists and forums, whereby those who discover the idea for the first time excitedly share it with the community, and the process repeats itself in a recursive fashion, ad infinitum.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Hey gang, check out what I’ve just discovered! I was reading Michael’s blog and he’s come up with a new word called ‘recursiverse,’ which is the phenomenon where someone discovers an idea for the first time and excitedly shares it with the community, and the process repeats itself in a recursive fashion, ad infinitum.
October 17th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Dude! Like, what if our reality was a simulation running inside ANOTHER simulation, and like THAT simulation was inside another simulation? And what if the process repeats itself in a recursive fashion, ad infinitum?
That would be cool.
October 17th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Droll…very (meta)(meta)(meta)…(meta) cosmically-droll…