Bank Of America - We Could Be living In The Matrix

Phil87 said:
I don't see how this can be possible. This simulation would have been running basically forever, simulating every atom in the universe (and a lot more smaller than atoms) at an infinite "framerate", and it has never crashed, never needed to be shut down to have updates applied to it, and is 100% free of bugs which is impossible.

Of course I'm thinking of this in terms of current computers and software, which might not be relevant in the future.
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How would you know if any of those things had happened? We could have been shut down for a year and started back up again and we wouldn't know.

Framerate as well is only relevant to someone outside the simulation. Just like a character in a game has no idea what the framerate is. The simulation could be running at one frame every 10 years and we wouldn't know the difference. Do you know they have simulated 1 second of 1% of a brain's activity and it took 40 minutes for the supercomputer to do it...*

They could take backups and if there's a bug just roll back, they can make updates whenever they like.
The idea though is an advanced civilization would have plenty of time to iron out the bugs and then run many many many simulations at the same time, so the odds are you're in one of them.

Also, there is no evidence that any of the past has actually happened. Only our memories.



Besides, the universe is full of bugs, just look at quantum physics.

(not saying I actually believe any of this, it's just hypothetical)



*although I suspect the "simulating a brain" part is a little overstated.
 
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Zogger said:
How would you know if any of those things had happened? We could have been shut down for a year and started back up again and we wouldn't know.
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Good point, and I was thinking along those lines. It could be like quick saves in a game, as far as the characters in the game are concerned there is just a normal timeline even though there could have been many saves and loads.

Maybe this fits with the idea of infinite universes - each universe is a quantum computer running a simulation of a universe, and in each of those universes there is another quantum computer doing the same thing :eek:
 
A scientist said
The idea is that our Universe was created by some super-intelligence
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Another said
our Universe looks designed.
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Right... Uhm, now hold on a minute! I think some people have already had that idea! :p
 
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This matrix thing is just a modern take on superstition, a construct of imagination, nothing more. Replace the all powerful all knowing all controlling white old man with a super computer and voila, you've made the news. Boring, inconsequential claptrap.
 
I went up up down down left left right right and nothing happened.

Therefore I have concrete proof we are not inside a computer.
 
The earth, and how it all came about, is all a bit too convenient.... suspicious.


Seriously though, I hope this isn't some sort of life simulator.
 
Zogger said:
Framerate as well is only relevant to someone outside the simulation. Just like a character in a game has no idea what the framerate is. The simulation could be running at one frame every 10 years and we wouldn't know the difference. Do you know they have simulated 1 second of 1% of a brain's activity and it took 40 minutes for the supercomputer to do it...*
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With regard to framerate - the unimpeded speed of fundamental particles with no rest mass could be an indication of some limits - though as you said we'd have no perspective on how fast the simulation ran with respect to base time.
 
Well it'd certainly explain the "Big Bang" theory and everything being created from nothing. Not to mention the same fundamental patterns occurring at every scale (a ruleset that only gets bugged in the quantum world like mentioned above?).

I've always wondered about how feasible this theory could be and it seems more probable than a bearded bloke in a gown in heaven.
 
I've often wondered. If it could possibly go wrong it will, if its possible that it'll screw up your life or make it even more difficult, it will happen

I swear someone, somewhere is having a laugh.

"Yeah, thats do that to him again. Ha ha!"
 
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