What If Time Really Exists? (2008)
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What If Time Really Exists? (2008)
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#2Between modern physics suggesting time and space may be illusions, leading technologists agreeing that we're almost certainly in a simulated reality, and many ancient traditions being certain that this is all an illusion, I may have to have to go ahead and take this seriously....
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#3Title needs a (2008).
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#4Title needs a (2008).
Or does it?
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#6Between modern physics suggesting time and space may be illusions, leading technologists agreeing that we're almost certainly in a simulated reality, and many ancient traditions being certain that this is all an illusion, I may have to have to go ahead and take this seriously....
haha, I had the exact opposite conclusion: good thing it's all an illusion so I carry on laughing about it all! :P
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#7Between modern physics suggesting time and space may be illusions, leading technologists agreeing that we're almost certainly in a simulated reality, and many ancient traditions being certain that this is all an illusion, I may have to have to go ahead and take this seriously....
What is ironic is the amount of blind faith required to accept some of these things that are so completely against everything we experience. It's very nearly a religion.
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#8Time exists. It's the observed difference between two states.
Also, i am not a physicist.
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#9I take the endofunction view. plank :: u -> u
Assume u is finite. Then we are either losing information or stuck in an infinite loop.
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#10Between modern physics suggesting time and space may be illusions, leading technologists agreeing that we're almost certainly in a simulated reality, and many ancient traditions being certain that this is all an illusion, I may have to have to go ahead and take this seriously....
The simulation argument comes from the fact that there a quite a lot of physics effects that are both surprising, and look an awful lot like dirty hacks that a programmer might put it.
Quantum physics looks a lot like lazy evaluation (State doesn't exist until "observed").
The speed of light seems like a hack to prevent an n squared problem of everything in the universe effecting everything at the same time.