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originally posted by: NorEaster
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
You gotta wonder then... if you believe in such nonsense...
Who coded the matrix?
It's turtles . . . turtles all the way down.
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. However, he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his basic work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.
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A team of physicists have come up with a test which they say could prove whether or not the universe as we know it is a virtual reality simulation - a kind of theoretical red pill, as it were.
Silas Beane of the University of Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues contend that a simulation of the universe, no matter how complex, would still have constraints
All we have to do to identify what these constraints would be is to build our own simulation of the universe, which is close to what many researchers are trying to do on an incredibly miniscule scale.
Computer simulations have been run to recreate quantum chromodynamics - the theory that describes the nuclear forced that binds quarks and gluons into protons and neutrons, which then bind to form atomic nuclei.
It is believed that simulating physics on this fundamental level is equivalent, more or less, to simulating the workings of the universe itself.
The question of whether we are actually aware of the real world is one which has been continually asked by philosophers.
One of the earliest articulations of the conundrum occurs in Plato's Republic, where the Allegory of the Cave attempts to describe the illusory existence led by most unthinking people.
Plato, regarded by many as the father of Western philosophy, suggested that the only way to come to a realisation of the real world was an in-depth study of maths and geometry, which would give students an inkling of the real nature of the world.
French philosopher Rene Descartes, pictured above right, whose works are often used as a general introduction to metaphysics, raises the problem again as a thought experiment to lead readers to a position of radical doubt.
By postulating a malicious demon who can keep us trapped in an illusory world, Descartes asks readers to cast aside all the evidence of their sensory experiences in a search for one certain premise.
He famously comes up with the argument 'cogito ergo sum', or rather 'I think therefore I am', which he uses as a indubitable bedrock from which to reconstruct a certain picture of reality.
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originally posted by: Blarneystoner
originally posted by: daftpink
I think in all honesty none of us can claim to know or define reality.
Most accurate statement I've read here in a long time.
originally posted by: wulff
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
It's easier for me to see that someone is messing with time and parallel universes. As silly as this may sound I think it makes more sense than imagining we are simply code in a computer... like someone already said "who would have done this" and more important WHY?
There are strange enough things happening these days that to reference our existence basically based on a fictional movie is really reaching!
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
You gotta wonder then... if you believe in such nonsense...
Who coded the matrix?
Maybe we did in another form?
Maybe Jesus
Maybe some dude who invented the binary code found in supersymetry back in the 40s
Maybe a supercomputer
Maybe god
Maybe various gods
Maybe angles
Maybe demons and devils
Maybe scientists
Maybe military
Maybe a secret government
Maybe the CIA
Maybe the NSA
Maybe the BIG BANG
Maybe we are programming it all the time with our desires.
Maybe some evil Red Skull type persona
Maybe some noble individual like Captain America
Maybe a group of individuals working in unison like the Borg from Star Trek
Maybe its done by the people of Hollow Earth or Agartha
Maybe its done in another universe by other versions of ourselves
Maybe it was programed to program itself
Maybe all of the above
Maybe none of the above
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
You gotta wonder then... if you believe in such nonsense...
Who coded the matrix?
Maybe we did in another form?
Maybe Jesus
Maybe some dude who invented the binary code found in supersymetry back in the 40s
Maybe a supercomputer
Maybe god
Maybe various gods
Maybe angles
Maybe demons and devils
Maybe scientists
Maybe military
Maybe a secret government
Maybe the CIA
Maybe the NSA
Maybe the BIG BANG
Maybe we are programming it all the time with our desires.
Maybe some evil Red Skull type persona
Maybe some noble individual like Captain America
Maybe a group of individuals working in unison like the Borg from Star Trek
Maybe its done by the people of Hollow Earth or Agartha
Maybe its done in another universe by other versions of ourselves
Maybe it was programed to program itself
Maybe all of the above
Maybe none of the above
What if I told you theres a doubly even self dual linear binary error-correcting block code, first invented by Claude Shannon in the fundamental nature of our reality developed in the 40s. This code was discovered embedded within the equations of superstring theory on a fluke.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
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.
Does a universe exist within us I would guess yes!
Is our counsiousness the barrier that seperates internal and external universes? Yes again I would guess only counsiousness appears as all things matrix or otherwise.
Now onto the reason the world sucks so bad that is a head scratcher there I think agent smith summed it up pretty clearly, but who knows.
Also notice the horn of helm is different in the above video which is the matrix effect lolz!
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
A little bit of history on Claude Shannon whos binary error-correcting computer code just happens to be written into the building blocks our realiy. I just find it interesting that his code is part of the building blocks of our known universe or earth. I wonder if the rest of the universe works on the same physics as the earth we live on?
originally posted by: VirusGuard
Because you can take six from ten does not mean that you can travel back in time by six years and this is where our quantum freinds get it all wrong and if they could prove entanglement then they would had produce a machine and a good profit by using this theory to send encrypted data.
originally posted by: daftpink
Yeah god is a pretty decent programmer but decoding the universe is like hacking a virtual reality game from the inside whilst not wanting to admit its just a game.