Are We Just Simulations/Holograms

BoonMonkey said:
Blame us? :)



Oh btw guys, is it possible that we are all controlled in a game like The Sims and they are controlled by a game like The Sims also... When we make our Sims play The Sims we are actually playing god twice?
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No because when I last played the sims and locked my sim into a 1x1x1x1 "room" I didn't see him pull out his laptop and begin doing the same to his sims, instead he cried, peed himself, cried more and died!
 
You're not bonkers. The Holographic universe theory is one currently under investigation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_600

A similar experiment has conclusively found that gamma ray photons are not subject to quantum 'pixelation' (which is what they are looking for), and further research is being carried out to determine whether this extends to non-photonic quantum objects. This is not the same as wave functions found in quantum mechanics.
 
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BoonMonkey said:
Blame us? :)



Oh btw guys, is it possible that we are all controlled in a game like The Sims and they are controlled by a game like The Sims also... When we make our Sims play The Sims we are actually playing god twice?
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Well it would explain the floating green diamond above my head. Or why I keep feeling the compulsion to block up all my windows and doors with fireplaces and start a fire...
 
elmarko1234 said:
actually relevant post discussing the topic at hand instead of just instantly rejecting it without even watching the video/reading anything
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I haven't watched the videos yet but your post makes a lot of sense to me. I like this sort of thing.
 
elmarko1234 said:
:cool:, very interesting.

This theory implies that not even our minds exist (in reality) - odd, but fascinating.
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I thought about this when I was about 8. I asked my family whether they plug themselves in at night in case they were robots. I think, though, that it's correct to say that you can never be sure anyone else's mind exists other than your own, but you have to assume that it does.
 
It is quite possible that the universe we know is nothing more than a simulation - however most of the subject matter I've seen on it, ideas put forward on the subject or the people who have made a study of it seem to have a very limited view of the possibilities and some really unintelligent theories.

I suggest anyone who wants to study it or even criticise the possibilities goes away and does a couple of years of video game development especially world/level development as you will see the subject in a very different light and see how limited the vision of the people who make these kind of videos are compared to the likely realities if this universe is a simulation. I watched part of the series through the wormhole that was presented by Morgan Freeman on this matter and spent most of it in stitches at how childish the theories put forward were.

EDIT: I may not be making too much sense here as a lot of it you have to come to for yourself - without that however well I tried to explain it the implications would be lost.
 
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Zefan said:
I haven't watched the videos yet but your post makes a lot of sense to me. I like this sort of thing.
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Well, the theory is pretty old if I recall.

It get's very interesting if you then consider if the creator of the simulation wanted to find out about religion - as in a simulation the actual events depicted in religious scripts could have happened lol.

A bit ironic that the only way I'd consider religion as a genuine possibility would be if our entire universe was fictional.

But as somebody else here mentioned, the actual reality could have a completely different law of physics for all we know, our reality could be nothing more than a complex version of Civilisation MM :p.

But until evidence can be provided (very difficult this one) - it's just an interesting theory, but as our technology progresses it may gain more momentum (closer to the level required to run this kind of simulation, or when we are able to create the first AI with human level self awareness).

As once you can create an AI which is self aware, you can dictate it's surroundings (as it's not a physical object) - from this you can see how it may be possible to make the small steps required.

I don't believe it personally, as I don't think as a society we will make it to the technological level required (due to a conflicting theory of the Kardashev scale)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

The basic theory being, that before we obtain the technological level required to leave earth, we will have destroyed ourselves in war - which is put forward as a theory as to why we have not seen any aliens & why the universe isn't teeming with life in all corners.

Most (or potentially all) civilisations don't get past stage 1.
 
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elmarko1234 said:
But until evidence can be provided (very difficult this one) - it's just an interesting theory, but as our technology progresses it may gain more momentum (closer to the level required to run this kind of simulation, or when we are able to create the first AI with human level self awareness).

As once you can create an AI which is self aware, you can dictate it's surroundings (as it's not a physical object) - from this you can see how it may be possible to make the small steps required.
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I'm skeptical that you can create an AI with real self awareness (another reason why I think its possible this universe is a simulation and our self awareness exists outside it) you can theoretically create an AI that would react exactly like a human being would, do everything a human would but that doesn't (necessarily) make it self aware - while there may be some level at the quantum scale where self awareness can exist everything above that has absolutely no capacity for self awareness in its mechanics however complex you construct it.
 
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