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Clever optimization by our simulators, Big up
I've always wanted to read (or write?) a book about us determining we are in a simulation, but we find subtle flaws like this we're able to exploit in weird ways. Kind of like breaking out of a VM through register flaws or something. Anyone know of a story along those lines?
This is of course extremely interesting and probably important for understanding our universe—but how is it helping anyone to say something like, "...with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured." The statement is like a distraction at a magic show, drawing the reader to the glittery 'reality' and 'exist,' which are totally undefined so the reader's imagi…
"Maybe this is really just a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about motion of particles or information transfer in the universe." Check out this TED talk on just that subject. http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as... Here's the punch line, space, time and matter are components of a user interface produced through evolution. We don't take the desktop and icons of our computer UI literall…
If I'm standing here, all the stuff that the atoms in my body could conceivably interact with have to be backfilled for me to interact with them according to this experiment, but since I'm not special to the universe, atoms three billion light years over, they are still interacting with each other, just not with me. So am I decohered to them? Is this like a divergent timelines theory such that coherence is defined as…
goes over a lot of them without getting to messy in the math. Other interpretations of QM are in the book as well. There are many:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...
Clever optimization by our simulators, Big up
I've always wanted to read (or write?) a book about us determining we are in a simulation, but we find subtle flaws like this we're able to exploit in weird ways. Kind of like breaking out of a VM through register flaws or something. Anyone know of a story along those lines?
In the time of Empiricism, the philosophers George Berkeley and John Locke proposed something similar. I believe it was called it immaterialism, or the idea that nothing exists without being perceived. Berkeley went further saying that objects only exist in the mind, or something like that.
It seems sort of unfortunate that physicists would call these quantum probabilistic behaviors "not reality", because they are just as real as anything else.
Lazy instantiation.
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> What does it mean to exist? A thing exists specifically when it affects something else. What is measurement? It's a reciprocal affecting. All that's starting to sound an awful lot like Orthodox Christian theology about the essence of God…
Can you elaborate on the similarities? I took a course on medieval philosophy and theology (Anselm, Aquinas, Avicenna, and so on) so I am earnestly interested, but the connection isn't jumping out at me.
Clever optimization by our simulators, Big up
I've always wanted to read (or write?) a book about us determining we are in a simulation, but we find subtle flaws like this we're able to exploit in weird ways. Kind of like breaking out of a VM through register flaws or something. Anyone know of a story along those lines?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Maybe this is really just a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about motion of particles or information transfer in the universe." Check out this TED talk on just that subject. http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as... Here's the punch line, space, time and matter are components of a user interface produced through evolution. We don't take the desktop and icons of our computer UI literall…
Fun to think about, but his argument is a non sequitur.