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originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
You gotta wonder then... if you believe in such nonsense...
Who coded the matrix?
originally posted by: Konduit
Study: German Scientists Believe Reality May Be A Simulation.
A study out of the University of Bonn in Germany suggests that the Universe itself may indeed be a simulation.
The theory states that according to Moore's Law, computing power doubles approximately every 2 years. Eventually computers are going to become so powerful that they will be able to artificially create a virtual universe that is indistinguishable from our own, and suggests that this may have already happened.
originally posted by: Konduit
Physicist Silas Beane - The idea that we live in a simulation isn't science fiction.
"There is a famous argument that we probably do live in a simulation. The idea is that in the future, humans will be able to simulate entire universes quite easily. And given the vastness of time ahead, the number of these simulations is likely to be huge. So if you ask the question: 'do we live in the one true reality or in one of the many simulations?', the answer, statistically speaking, is that we're more likely to be living in a simulation."
The major premise that underwrites Putnam’s argument is what he calls a “causal constraint” on reference:
(CC) A term refers to an object only if there is an appropriate causal connection between that term and the object
Putnam thus stipulates that all sentient beings are brains in a vat, hooked up to one another through a powerful computer that has no programmer: “that’s just how the universe is.” We are then asked, given at least the physical possibility of this scenario, whether we could say or think it. Putnam answers that we could not: the assertion “we are brains in a vat” would be sense self-refuting in the same way that the general statement “all general statements are false” is.
originally posted by: circlemaker
About code showing up in particles... this doesn't surprise me a whole lot. Some patterns are designed, some are emergent. Also, sometimes you have to create something to discover that it was already there.
The universe so far appears to be emergent, but that doesn't mean that someone or something couldn't have tampered with the flow a bit. I personally believe that the universe (including past and future) is dynamically updated with the creation of new information, regardless if new info is created by accident or intention. That alone would cause quite a few "huh" moments for those who notice, such as the changing variables that Philip K. Dick mentioned.
The matrix or simulated universe may exist in infinite layers inside and outside the one we currently perceive. Hell, we might even wake up in a slightly different one every day without noticing. Does a universe exist within us? Is our consciousness the barrier that separates internal and external universes? If so I wonder who the douche is that I'm inside of cuz this place sucks.
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
but then who matrixses the matrixmen?
originally posted by: Turq1
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
but then who matrixses the matrixmen?
*crickets*
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
You gotta wonder then... if you believe in such nonsense...
Who coded the matrix?