Happens on the 21st.... Apparently!
Do we live in a computer simulation?
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Happens on the 21st.... Apparently!
Interesting theory. When you consider that scientists are already producing simulations of the early universe (http://www.space.com/17530-universe-dark-energy-supercomputer-simulation.html) then it may be possible to do this in the far far future. There would definitely be an interest from the scientific and historical community.
This also means that the likelyhood of us being the 'original' universe is tiny. There is a far greater chance of us being a simulation in the original universe, or a simulation in a simulation in a simulation etc.
However, from our point of view it doesn't matter one bit.
This also means that the likelyhood of us being the 'original' universe is tiny. There is a far greater chance of us being a simulation in the original universe, or a simulation in a simulation in a simulation etc.
However, from our point of view it doesn't matter one bit.
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This actually a pretty potent statement. If you assume that time is infinite (disregard any inflation/expansion theories in this case) in the "original" universe and that the simulation is left running..
Then it isn't infeasible to assume that a simulation would develop a "life-form" capable of creating it's own universe simulation and that simulation creating it's own etc.
If the "original" simulation is running on a computer in the classical sense, there would come a point where these recursive simulations cause an "out of memory" error (resulting from a stack-overflow, as we might call it) causing a crash which suddenly ends all but the original.
We might then reason that if we are living in a simulation, we're probably the root simulation and it would be impossible for us to create our own, due to safe-guards imposed by the level or "original" above us.
I'd be quite happy to be in a simulation.. But please.. Can I have a better one! This one I'mnot enjoying!
The life question is going to get a lot more blurred very soon.. Organic based computers etc
People Get too hung up on how special and unique we are.. Alive isn't black and white
The life question is going to get a lot more blurred very soon.. Organic based computers etc
People Get too hung up on how special and unique we are.. Alive isn't black and white
Congrats, you've successfully quoted the most unintelligent answer in the entire thread.
And now I have too...!
I think there are super beings that are just playing a super advanced version of "The Sims"
Must be true Morgan Freeman narrating
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Must be true Morgan Freeman narrating
Sad thing is a lot of people think like that. If a nobody says that type of stuff he's instantly a nutter but slap somebody whos in a perceived position of authority in and people start taking it a bit more seriously.
wow I never knew we had so many physics experts on here
It's not really a physics question, except at the most basic level. It's asking about skepticism, which is a pretty core question in philosophy.
Well, I think the fact that the first Oxford dictionary definition of life is that it is:
"the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter"
pretty much rules that theory out
So you at saying we merly need to make organic computers, which already exist in research forms, to generate true life?
The human brain and computer both uses the few of electrons across a circuit to control, processes and responses. There is fundamentally no difference. One uses silicon and one carbon, but that is like saying a glass table is not table since it is not made of wood.
A brain is a computer and abode a machine, in all senses of the words.
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Agree completely, a few people here need to overclock their processor me thinks.