<p>““If my memory serves me correctly, he (Tipler) put forth the premise that eventually we will all live forever since each of us will have our consciousness uploaded to a computer.””</p>
<p>One difference between Bostrom and others, is that Bostrom’s argument can bypass much of the technological details in between and still provide a logical framework toward the possibility of a grand simulation, for which the details canbe filled as technology has evolved. Whereas Tipler’s argument has gone through many projections over technological development, where deviations may derail his argument. For example, Tipler constructed his argument with a closed universe while observations of accelerating expansion would suggest an open universe instead, [Nifty50:ACCELERATING</a>, EXPANDING UNIVERSE](<a href=“http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/nsfoutreach/htm/n50_z2/pages_z3/01_pg.htm]Nifty50:ACCELERATING”>Nifty50:ACCELERATING, EXPANDING UNIVERSE) .</p>