A giant thought form playing out in matter. I agree that perhaps 'imitating' is not the most appropriate word.
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Simulation
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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If it IS a Simulation, wouldn't that mean everything in the Universe could be potentially resolved utilizing mathematical equations?
Maybe there is one grand unifying equation that underwrites Reality.
firedragon
Veteran Member
A simulation in my understanding is not an imitation in this particular case. The words definition could mean an imitation as well but a simulation is when you create a model or a design that you wish to show as a showpiece, but it may not be the real thing. Everyone knows a simulation in a driving institute is a computer game, its not a real car on real roads. It can also be a spaceship which doesnt exist. It could also be a planet that never was. I could Salma Hayek.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's a hackers greatest challenge....
Eureka? Naww... eh.. no.
But it never stops a person from trying, or at least thinking they hacked the simulation.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Do God use PlayStation,Xbox or Switch to play the simulation of earth
Do God use PlayStation,Xbox or Switch to play the simulation of earth
No. Of Nirn. Mostly in Tamriel.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
WUT is dat
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
Personally, I can see the usefulness of simulation- and digital cloud-parables when speaking to atheist - especially nowadays, when so many grasp such concepts so well.
However, I do emphasise that though there definitely are similarities between the idea of simulation and that of a physical expression of an otherwise entirely a-physical reality, I do not consider worldliness an actual simulation. Much due to what your OP points out: there is unlikely anything physical to simulate and if there were, there would be no reason to simulate it.
Humbly
Hermit
I'm replying on the basis that you're real.
I'm not sure of the limits of what you're suggesting, so I'll just mention that simulations can be based on totally imaginary situations, as in many computer games.
If we can imagine it's a simulation, we can also imagine what it's a simulation of, no? There don't appear to be any rules.
Though I'm reminded of the end of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the Vogons destroyed Earth to build a freeway, but fortunately Earth had been created as a supercomputer program (to calculate the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything (after the earlier answer "42" was deemed unsatisfactory) so there was a backup program of Earth.
What reasons are there in support of these theories?
Heyo
Veteran Member
Does a hypothesis count as a reason in support of a claim?
Heyo
Veteran Member
No, but the facts that lead to the hypothesis. Maybe it wasn't clear enough in the article so here is a rephrased version.
Fact: we have computers.
Fact: computers get more powerful over time.
Fact: we run simulations on those computers.
Projection: if things continue as they are, we will run sophisticated simulations on powerful computers.
But that means we could be in such a simulation run by our descendents.