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Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

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Re: Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

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Post by vikiomega9 »

curiously wrote: post #5

Well I don't believe we are in a computer simulation per say but I think there are certain properties that certainly make it seem like we are. For example, I believe that conciousness can transcend to anything. We could just be some collective consciousness. When we are born we have no memory of our previous life. When we die we have no memory of our current one. So this suggest to me that it is entirely possible tha…

Or that the biological imperative that we share is common across all animals. The fact that drugs were found by said animal implies trial and error. But then again, what constitutes a drug? In a world where drugs that induce sensation of the level of say cocaine were absent, some other milder drug would apply as a suitable substitute to relieving stress.

But really, I can't fathom how you connect collective consciousness to having no memory of a previous life or the one that follows. Apologies if I'm gravely mistaken.

Re: Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

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Post by logn »

throwaway420 wrote: post #10
logn wrote: post #6

We could be living in a multi-verse world. That's partly what the LHC experiments are trying to discern. If there are infinitely many universes then I think it would make it less likely we're in a simulation even if we are able to create our own simulation.

> If there are infinitely many universes then I think it would make it less likely we're in a simulation I'm not sure how this logically follows...why would this make it less likely?

Say there are 100 universes. Suppose each universe has 1 in 100 chance of making simulations and if they do they make 100. Your chances then of living in a simulation are ~50%. It's much different than assuming a single universe in which case the advent of simulations almost assures that you're living in one (assuming the author's line of reasoning).

Edit: in summary the pace at which new universes arise could rival or exceed the pace at which simulations could be created.

Re: Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

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logn wrote: post #13
throwaway420 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If there are infinitely many universes then I think it would make it less likely we're in a simulation I'm not sure how this logically follows...why would this make it less likely?

Say there are 100 universes. Suppose each universe has 1 in 100 chance of making simulations and if they do they make 100. Your chances then of living in a simulation are ~50%. It's much different than assuming a single universe in which case the advent of simulations almost assures that you're living in one (assuming the author's line of reasoning). Edit: in summary the pace at which new universes arise could rival…

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Re: Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

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Post by r3bl »

miduil wrote: post #7
aceperry wrote: post #4

Maybe I am. Don't unplug the computer!

Yes, but reboot the computer - updates are available. :)

Lets be honest, we all admire those servers running a couple of years without ever rebooting. Maybe our universe is inside one of them? :)

Re: Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

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Post by me_myself_and_I »

curiously wrote: post #5

Well I don't believe we are in a computer simulation per say but I think there are certain properties that certainly make it seem like we are. For example, I believe that conciousness can transcend to anything. We could just be some collective consciousness. When we are born we have no memory of our previous life. When we die we have no memory of our current one. So this suggest to me that it is entirely possible tha…

I pretty much reached this same conclusion :S I'm constantly tormented how I'm not conscious about 7 billion people's mind but I am of mine. Why it happened till now? Can it be happening infinitely? Like if you play a video, then you pause it for billions of years, then play it again. If we were able to watch the video cutting the part where it was paused, it would look like it was never paused in the first place.

Maybe life is like that. I'll die, in a couple of billions of years, or other universes what I perceive as my consciousness will wake up (independently of the body form).

If I was told to close my eyes, and I'll get some drugs to fall asleep, then during that time someone is going to make a 100% exact copy of myself, where would my current consciousness wake up? In which bed, if me and my copy are in the same room?

How someone could convince my copy, he is not the original one? (if, for example, there is no video of the procedure). Would that prove there is no real consciousness as we perceive it and we are merely a byproduct of the laws of the universe?

Why did I become conscious in the first place? What if my homosapien body had never born?

Can it be that there is just one single consciousness but every creature experiences it on their own way? (like an OS being installed in different hardware. After some time they would look different, just like we all have different personalities and experiences, etc).

There is an hypothesis that says there is just one single electron in the universe, but all the matter is a kind of representation of it in time. That would explain why a positron and electron would annihilate each other.

I'm not an expert whatsoever on physics. I'm just curious of my own existence :)

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