reply to post by merkins
So rather than discuss the subject matter you brush of my questions about the simulated reality as childlike despite the fact that we are using a
discussion forum and that you don't have the energy to continue the discussion with me! Fair enough do as you please however that would seem to me
like a child who doesn't want to play anymore when they are faced with more questions they don't think they can answer so they give up !
To that I say get over yourself mate if you don't want to continue then don't you don't have to make statements about how childlike the comments are
as if you are the master of simulated reality and discussions there of !
I would make an assumption about your ego but I will let it slide for that is no way to continue the discussion
and to add I take no offense, I'm more offended that you don't want to continue the discussion because its a great topic however had you really
intended no offense your response would have stated my questions showed "a basic understanding" yet you chose to classify my understanding as
"childlike" asserting your intellectual superiority over my basic understanding. To add I admit I know that I know little of the subject other than
what I have read and don't proclaim to hold the same level of understanding as those who excel in the fields of quantum mechanics , philosophy or
maths in relation to the simulated reality of the universe " I know I know nothing " my ignorance of the subject matter offends me ! yet I try to
understand more and ask questions.
If you feel you are wasting your time then don't let me stop you from replying to me or continuing in the discussion of the OP
My questions about simulated reality are not childlike , they are questions none the less children ask important questions too ! I'm making
assumptions about the simulation theory because its just a theory how else would one try to figure it out without at least making a few assumptions
!
The first assumption made by the scientists who came up with the theory is that our future selves would simulate their past !
If computer characters had consciousness , they would surely ask me to stop having them die repeatedly when I miss that jump , crash that car , or get
fragged by another player online.
Im sure you will agree that science and philosophy state that in order to have to have consciousness the subject must become self aware ! and as it
stands our current technology does not exhibit self awareness and neither do the characters of computer games !
@ Chaotic yeh I could see that it would be an evolutionary simulation if that was the idea of the simulation itself to see how the evolution of a
universe might occur. As I suggested though , to run a simulation of such grand imagining would require the most complex computing ever to be
conceived one that would allow each individual with a conscious in the simulation to imagine and create and ask questions! such a thing would be a
beauty indeed.
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