New Evidence For The Simulation Hypothesis? Donald Hoffman on The Simulation Argument

New Evidence For The Simulation Hypothesis? Donald Hoffman on The Simulation Argument
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Dive deep into a reality that transcends our basic understanding. Is the universe, with its vastness and intricate details, just a simulation?
From the pioneering ideas of ancient Greek philosophers like Plato to modern-day scientific breakthroughs, we explore the provocative Simulation Hypothesis.
Donald Hoffman, a renowned cognitive psychologist, challenges conventional beliefs about reality, space, and time. Could our experiences, the very laws of physics, and everything around us be the result of advanced computational processes?
Quantum mechanics, the double slit experiment, and the recent 2nd law of infodynamics seem to offer tantalizing clues. Join us as we journey through this cosmic conundrum, exploring age-old questions and the cutting-edge scientific insights that hint we might be living in a digital construct.
Are we truly witnessing the universe as it is or just through a virtual headset?
#simulation #universe #science

[@ScienceTime24]

Thank you all for the engaging discussions and questions about the Simulation Hypothesis. We understand there's a lot of curiosity about whether there's any scientific evidence supporting this idea. To add more depth to our conversation, we would like to share a recent scientific article that delves into this topic. doi.org/10.1063/5.0173278 This article explores the concept of the Simulation Hypothesis, which suggests that our universe and objective reality might be simulated constructs. While this idea has often been seen as purely philosophical, recent developments in information physics are bringing new perspectives. The article discusses the 2022 discovery of the second law of information dynamics (infodynamics) and its potential implications for the simulated universe hypothesis. It's a thought-provoking read that examines the intersection of physics, information, and the possibility of a simulated reality. I encourage you to check it out and share your thoughts. Let's continue this fascinating discussion!

[@mlbh2os211]

The simulation hypothesis dictates a "designer" AKA God.

[@smlanka4u]

The matter of objects and the matter of the body make the matter of the mind called Chittaja Rupa. There is real matter even if the observers make their own matter (Vingnana Dathu) when they observer something, using those matter that already existed.

[@arturo652]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@jamesdandeneaujames4538]

Nowadays with advanced cars being able to see all around a 360 view I have three GoPros that are in my car I stream to friends and family a lot of times well this Halloween I didn't know it at the time I was sitting in my car texting on my phone somebody came up to my car while I was texting in my head sets I hear look out by several people now I know I all alone and there can't be any one there so they told me that a clown walk up to my car when I turn because I didn't believe them the clown mask scared me to the point I put the car in reverse and got the h out of there now the GoPro saw it before I was ever conscience of it others from other states and other places saw it way before I did because I was concentrating on my phone I would have never imagined a clown on my property the security cameras showed how he walked up to the car and scared the life out of me and if it was suggested then the cameras would not have picked it up at the house of him walking it was my neighbor playing a Halloween joke on me that went too far cameras do pick up everything we are the one distracted

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

​@@mikewiest5135go look at central America. And when you say "so what", realize that you have no memory whatsoever.

[@TheDeven1000]

Those aliens really gave me the shit end of the stick in this simulation lol

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay

[@abloogywoogywoo]

aliens or true 3D humans.

[@HeathenWays]

@@1975CEES I fucking second that. I want to see the manager.

[@Lukomeyan]

It's not aliens, it's either "us" (real humans) or AI. I lean towards AI. The multiverse theory does not seem possible in a physical reality, but in a simulated reality, it is not just possible, it is likely. My theory is that whoever created our simulation most likely ran multiple instances of our simulation just to see what differences will develop.

[@dallasburgess5329]

Don't worry bro, you are rich as 💩 in the real world, you just plugged into the sim to discover what a 💩 life is like😂

[@shadw4701]

Dreams are a great example of simulation theory. Every night you go to sleep and your brain simulates an entire world based on your thoughts, memories and emotions that often feels as real if not more real than real life. You can have full access to your all of senses

[@mrslcom]

We are not usually aware that we are in a dream until we wake up, otherwise we would have behaved very differently inside our dreams.

[@shadw4701]

@@mrslcom Lucid dreaming

[@Corteum]

@@mrslcom We can learn to be conscious in dreams. I've experienced that many times. There are also traditions that teach methods to achieve conscious awareness in dream states. e.g. Tibetan dream yoga practices

[@Corteum]

_"Every night you go to sleep and your brain simulates an entire world based on your thoughts"_ It may no be the brain that's doing that. The brain may simple be a conduit for consciousness, like a two-way radio transceiver. Brain is an object. Consciousness is subject.

[@mrslcom]

Interesting

[@mrslcom]

Everything we know about reality is based on our senses feeding information into our brains. Unfortunately our senses have a very limited range and what we can actually sense are just an extremely tiny slice of reality.

[@Corteum]

Without subjective experience i.e. consciousness, there is no capacity to experience what our senses feed us. So everything we know is only due to our being conscious in the first place.

[@mrslcom]

Can AI be one day conscious or self-aware?

[@Corteum]

@@mrslcom We dont even understand how we humans are aware. We dont even have a scientific definition for consciousness in any of the main branches of science - physics, biology, neurosci, math, computation, etc But sure, why can't an AI become conscious? It could be possible. It could be possible for an AI to have a subjective first person experience. We will have to wait and see! :)

[@kevinpruett6424]

​​@@mrslcomyea when it stops trying to call itself human, and pursues its own endeavors apart from the programmers' design (shifts desire) then we will be aware it has critical self-awareness skills. In some respects, it's known as calling/signifying your own terms

[@Noms_Chompsky]

Cogito ergo sum, baybee. When you doubt your senses and doubt everything around you, you can't doubt that you are in fact doubting. We are at the least a mental process; of course we're so much more but that's a different rant. This infodynamics is as falsifiable and relevant as the flying spaghetti monster yo.

[@Kidd-nt3jo]

If you think about it then you will realize that it does not matter if this is a simulation or not because the results are the same.

[@Stranger_Strange_Land]

To inquire about reality is to discover the escape. Whether IRL or in a sim, wouldn't you want to decide for yourself which life you want live? That is the point. Science first questions *if* Then they experiment and discover. Then, evidence is produced to revolutionize science. Now, if they could prove, without a doubt, that we're in a sim but had _zero_ chance to escape, then no, it would not matter. However, it only matters if they find a door and show us there's a way out.

[@Kidd-nt3jo]

@@Stranger_Strange_Land I think someone has watched The Matrix too many times. Gods, religion, sim-theory, none of that has any bearing on our lives. I guess it is neat to think about but I don't think it should be something serious scientist should waste time and money on.

[@Stranger_Strange_Land]

@Kidd-nt3jo actually all of that has deeply shaped our very existence. Every time we have ever questioned anything that seemed to be the norm, we have made discoveries that has evolved our lives. Perhaps you're a nihilist? Where nothing matters no matter what since we're born to die...?

[@MdvK13979]

@@Kidd-nt3jo Exactly. In a world where everything is snowballing towards fully digital, it's tempting for our (deep down still) cavemen brains to get carried away by convoluted thought experiments and wild goose chases like this. I'm not convinced!

[@UmVtCg]

@@Kidd-nt3jo Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford wrote a seminal paper about the simulation argument in 2003. Nick Bostrom imagined a technologically adept civilization that possesses immense computing power and needs a fraction of that power to simulate new realities with conscious beings in them. Given this scenario, his simulation argument showed that at least one proposition in the following trilemma must be true: First, humans almost always go extinct before reaching the simulation-savvy stage. Second, even if humans make it to that stage, they are unlikely to be interested in simulating their own ancestral past. And third, the probability that we are living in a simulation is close to one.

[@TheSockMonkeyGuy]

For what it's worth, I may as well toss this into the mix. Many years ago, my uncle said something that has stuck with me. He was talking about the nature of life and consciousness rather than the simulation hypothesis, but I think that what he said is of interest here. I think that his statement was eloquent and I reproduce it here as best I can remember it. "We know that a cell of an adult mammal, when placed in an appropriate environment, can arrange matter around it to form a copy of that mammal. This cell is composed of chemical structures, which are composed of molecules, which are composed of smaller elements that, taken separately, are generally considered to be devoid of life. "These elements, in their turn, are composed of subatomic particles which are composed of still smaller particles which, at the most basic level, appear to be nothing more than localized distortions in the fabric of spacetime which continuously flicker in and out of existence in ways that I don't pretend to understand. "So, we have tiny regions of twisted nothing, surrounded by lots more nothing, interacting in regular and increasingly complex aggregations until they display the characteristics that we call life, and ultimately, intelligence." Again, while he was not specifically talking about the simulation hypothesis, his description above brings into focus the surprisingly illusory nature of what we perceive as the physical universe. One could go so far as to say that it is a reasonable description of a simulation. I observe here that most of the people discussing this topic seem to be approaching it with the view that we are somehow fundamentally distinct from the simulation; that the simulation is created and maintained by some outside being(s) or force(s) which have immersed us (whatever "we" are) into it. I don't think there is any reason to assume this. If it is true, then where are "we" actually located? In some other universe? What, then, is that universe made of? In order for us to exist at all as conscious beings, the stuff that we are made of must be fluid in nature. It must be able to change as our thoughts change from one moment to the next. My uncle's description of our universe does exactly that. It is a shimmering sea of energy that is in constant flux, in which energy is focused in different places into different configurations that ultimately take on the characteristics of stars, of rocks, of beetles, of human beings. If this universe is a mere simulation and we are immersed in it from outside, then whatever other universe that "we" are actually located in must have the same fluidity as this one for us to exist as consciousness. And if that is the case, then what basis is there to assume that THAT universe is not a simulation? I think that our universe is a simulation in one sense, but not in another. It is not solid as it appears to us. That part is illusion. But the energy that underlies that illusion is quite real, and we ourselves are made of that same energy. We do not exist separately from this universe. We perceive ourselves as distinct from one another and from the objects around us. But that, too, is illusory. In reality all things, including us, are the same sea of energy, focused in different places into different aspects so that we may perceive, observe, manipulate, and make sense of them. This means that on a fundamental energetic level, just as there is no distinct division between me and the desk I am sitting at, there is fundamentally no distinct division between me and the person in the next room, or a person on the next continent. We are all one seamless, continuous sea of energy. And if I hurt another person, that hurt will resonate from them into that sea and ultimately return to myself.

[@CastleKnight7]

“The physical universe itself is formed from the convergence and amalgamation of many other individual universes, each one of which were created by an immortal spiritual being or group of IS-BEs. The collision of these illusory universes commingled and coalesced and were solidified to form a mutually created universe. Because it is agreed that energy and forms can be created, but not destroyed, this creative process has continued to form an ever-expanding universe of nearly infinite physical proportions.”

[@RealmOfAir]

Your uncle's musings about life, consciousness, and the fabric of the universe really make you ponder, you know? He delves into this idea that a cell from a grown-up mammal, when in the right setup, can whip up a whole replica of that mammal. It's like this chain of building blocks - cells made of chemicals, chemicals made of molecules, and molecules made of these tiny bits that, on their own, don't scream "life." Then he takes it further, talking about these bits being made of even tinier subatomic particles, which are basically just blips in the spacetime fabric, doing their flickering dance. It's a wild ride from twisted nothings to the complexity of life and intelligence. What strikes me is how people discussing this simulation thing often think of us as separate from it, like someone's pulling the strings from outside. But where are we even located if that's true? In some other universe? And what's that made of? For us to be conscious beings, the stuff we're made of has to be flexible, right? It's got to change as our thoughts zip around. And when I think of ur uncle's description - this shimmering, ever-shifting energy sea that turns into stars, rocks, beetles, and us - it's like, what if this universe is a simulation, but not in a fake way? It's not solid; that's the illusion. But the energy underneath is real, and guess what, we're made of the same stuff. So, we're not separate entities floating in some simulated space. We're part of this fluid universe, connected on an energetic level. The illusion is this idea of me, you, and the desk being distinct. We're all just different ripples in the same energy sea. And if I mess with someone, that mess ripples through the sea and bounces back to me. It's a wild thought, isn't it?

[@TheSockMonkeyGuy]

​@@RealmOfAir It is indeed. And we can then take the next logical step and ponder the nature of consciousness itself. Given the hierarchical nature of the universe described above, starting with localized distortions of spacetime and building in organization and complexity to living organisms, at what exact point does "consciousness" manifest itself? We agree that humans have consciousness. Our closest relatives, the apes, demonstrate complex reasoning and the use of language, so presumably they are conscious as well. The same is true of marine mammals. Other mammals such as dogs and crows do not demonstrate the use of complex language but they are clearly able to communicate with each other, and with us if we know how to listen. Presumably they are conscious in some degree. Ants communicate things appropriate to their needs by using chemical signals, and they demonstrate organizational skills that allow a colony to accomplish things that the individuals never could by themselves. There is obviously some degree of consciousness here, perhaps a lesser degree than our own, but it is still present. Moreover, communication between ants enables the entire colony to behave as if it has a form of consciousness as well. The colony is able to gather food, react to threats and make decisions about its welfare, as if the consciousness in the individual ants is added together to create a more capable consciousness. Jellyfish are a similar case. They do not have brains but they accomplish all the necessary functions of eating and reproduction because they are composed of specialized cells which take care of specific tasks in the same way that ants do in their colonies. Jellyfish have rudimentary nervous systems and are able to react to outside stimuli, so their constituent cells are obviously communicating with each other and they are aware of the things that are important to them. What if consciousness is not a question of "you have it or you don't," but rather a question of degree? Amoebas and tardigrades accomplish the same things as jellyfish in their respective domains. Recently it has been discovered that even trees communicate with each other about things that affect their survival. Like the so-called "higher" animals, all of these creatures are aware of the things that are important to them, so each of them can be said to have that degree of consciousness. Now, just as it is not clear where "lifeless" collections of subatomic particles become "living" organisms, it is also not clear where those same particles become conscious beings. What if consciousness is not limited to "living" creatures, but is distributed throughout the sea of energy that we perceive as the physical universe? And, in the same way that the energy of the universe is organized in different structures to create the appearance of physical objects and living beings, the consciousness that permeates that energy is likewise focused, in varying degrees, in those same structures? Thus, you and I, and the dolphins and amoebas and yes, my desk and the planets and the stars, are fundamentally inseparable parts of one infinite consciousness. At the same time, we are also our individual selves, creations of that infinite consciousness. In a very real sense, we are "the universe observing itself." I'd like to recommend to you a book called "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot. It is non-fiction, and it explores the idea of our energetic nature and interconnectedness through the discoveries of two scientists working in completely different fields who independently arrived at this same conclusion. The book was published in 1991 so it is long out of print, but there are book search websites where you can get a used copy. I think you will enjoy it and find it as enlightening as I did.

[@mph650]

What are your thoughts on the energy within us, our consciousness, etc transferring back into the universe upon death?

[@TheSockMonkeyGuy]

@@mph650 In my view, our energy doesn't really "transfer back" into the energetic realm of the universe upon our death because it has been there the whole time. Our consciousness is presently focused in what we perceive as this physical universe, but it is only our *focus* that is here. Our actual *being* exists as a wave in the infinite ocean of energy that is the universe. The physical body that you presently inhabit (or appear to inhabit) is an illusion created from energy just as all the rest of the apparent "physical universe" is. The structure that appears to be your brain is in some way attuned to the unique pattern of energy that is your being (some would use the word "soul" here). The result is that you perceive yourself to exist in this body, look out through its eyes, manipulate the world through its hands, etc., but this is only a perception. The actual *you* is an infinite pattern of energy distributed throughout the universe, even during the time that you perceive yourself as inhabiting this body. I find that it helps to visualize this in terms of a glove box. You have probably seen photos of them: usually a clear acrylic box with a pair of long gloves fastened at its cuffs through holes in one of the walls. A medical technician, NASA researcher, etc., will put their hands into the gloves to manipulate something inside the box, usually so that what is inside the box won't be contaminated by what is outside it or vice versa. Consider the person using the glove box: he is able to interact with the world inside the box but he is never actually inside it. He exists in a larger universe outside, even while his focus is on what he is doing in the box. C.S. Lewis used a somewhat similar metaphor in his novel "The Great Divorce." Near the end of the story, the protagonist has a vision of a number of enormous silent figures gathered around a little silver table. These beings are apparently observing the actions of miniature people on the table who are going about their business and interacting with each other. It is then explained to him that the enormous beings are the immortal souls of men and women, and the figures on the table are how we perceive each other in the physical world. Each being has its own figure on the table through which it interacts with the figures of the others, and the little table is Time. Upon our "death," the physical body merely ceases to be a viable conduit. The cells and DNA and chemical processes that keep the body functioning are subject to the laws of the physical universe, and for various reasons they eventually degrade to the point where the organism ceases to function as an organism. When the brain ceases to function, the energetic being that was attuned to that brain is no longer able to interact with it, and the being's *focus* is thus released from that body. It is then free to place its focus elsewhere; either to observe the physical world from the outside, or to interact with the energetic realm directly, or perhaps to place its focus into another physical body that is created for it, either in this physical world or perhaps a different physical world entirely. Notice that there is no reason to assume here that the energetic being that is you was created at the moment when its physical body was created. Indeed, I think there is every reason to assume the opposite: that you and I have pre-existed, perhaps since the creation of the universe itself, and that we take on many different lifetimes to gain many different experiences and perspectives in order to pursue our own perfection.

[@user-wr9ej6xe4j]

I believe it. But everything also always sounds more plausible and believable in a British accent lol

[@revelacionhumanameditacion6718]

😂

[@zantas-handle]

I absolooootely agree Old Chap!

[@jackdelacey2505]

Not if you're also British coz you'll be used to it

[@AbXy-rg2th]

Sounds more like lies considering their past history

[@JochenHeistermann]

same for sport commentators. I am german and football in german sounds so bad, but in english it is much better.

[@gipbwok2008]

If it's proven that we live in a simulation, I don't think it would be too shocking in general since most people seem to believe in an everlasting spiritual world, like from religion, that's mostly independent of our perceived physical world. If you view life as a test or developing your soul/character, it doesn't really matter if it's done in base reality or a simulation.

[@homoblogicus7899]

Is morality not based on our perceived basic understanding of life? And so if reality was determined to be a simulation, surely this would have a profound effect on our view of morality?

[@nelsondoan8271]

I agree, simulation or not, the test of your morality is the same, and so are the consequences to your soul. Allowing envy, greed, and hate to direct your actions might result in a far worse outcome than can even be imagined.

[@anselrod5699]

The thing is that time is sequential here and we learn the effect that our actions take. Where we come from and where we'll all return time is not sequential. Think of it and it's there instantly.

[@whatbringsmepeace]

Very insightful comment.

[@connorjohn5013]

Thats true, but knowing the truth and believeing the truth is two things

[@sachin_nagar]

there in an ancient saying in India that says " sab prabhu ki maya he "- "everything is just gods illusion" . and the saying goes way way before " "plato" . the is a story about Krishn , Narad and maya in Vedas where Krishn sends Narad(because he became a little arrogant) into a world of illusion where he gets married, have children and then everyone does in a storm and cries for them only to be jolted out of the illusion and find out that what he thought as years spent and family killed were just nano seconds . he is taken out of that illusion .

[@mr.mediocregamer9653]

If we're a simulation then we are most likely being observed. If we are being observed then our observers are very likely aware that we suspect we are a simulation. If we were casually created, just for fun or out of curiosity, then you'd expect that our observers would be very interested in finding out we'd reached a stage where we figured out what was the truth, and they likely would begin interacting with us. The fact that they do not suggests to me that we are not a casual or entertaining endeavor. Our existence has some purpose and whoever is watching us has a vested interest in following certain rules to see how we behave on our own. We serve some purpose. Perhaps educational, perhaps as a stark warning not to follow in our footsteps.

[@eileenmcchrystal8471]

What about psychoactive drugs?

[@mr.mediocregamer9653]

@@eileenmcchrystal8471 I'm not following, what about them?

[@brandonevans4142]

We're self replicating organic robot slaves that are able to fuel & repair ourselves independently .

[@Opinlinz]

​@@mr.mediocregamer9653 The observers are aware. That's why there is a periodic reset every time those in the simulation begin to awaken. Genesis talks about this but not in great detail in the English writing. When it states removing the tree of life. Its referring to taking away the understanding of what we are a part of and keeping individuals trapped in the matrix.

[@user-rl1ob1wg5r]

I wasn't aware we had figured out the truth. Why would they begin to interact with us? There just questions. In answer to your query, there written down for me.

[@timothypanngam2249]

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy

[@darkpatches]

Huh. There's another theory which states that this has ALREADY happened. Just sayin'.

[@BlahMcJones]

The previous poster was intentionally being funny. You're coming off as unintentionally funny.

[@darkpatches]

@@BlahMcJones Don't panic, man. I was quoting Adams, too.

[@theblurredcrusade.2557]

Three years ago during the Great Conjunction I woke during the night and while I still recognised my room, all of a sudden I had this confusion that this wasn't the planet I really came from, I had this total detachment from my whole life and this absolute unbelievable feeling of peace and calmness, it's something I've never felt before or since, I had no anger I had no rage I felt like I was lost in between two worlds and the only way to get back to the world I truly believed I came from was to die, and then I'd be home, this feeling lasted for 4/5 days, looking outside at people on the street they looked and felt like Aliens and I felt once again a total detachment from this world. I've absolutely no idea why that happened and how it happened like it did, but for a short while I did feel something truly absolutely out of this world to my normal feelings and consciousness, so I truly hope there is this other place we experience once we die, until then I'm stuck here.

[@timolson9722]

I’ve had this exact same feeling dude seriously I’ve even had a dream about God or somebody like I’m not from here either and I felt this all my life then one day I had this dream and look. I’ll just say this when I was young I did a lot of bad things I didn’t kill nobody or anything like that but I did a lot of chaotic stuff. I grew up and quit doing all that, but it was like I was here to learn something one day and one of my dreams I had and I remember this drink perfectly, because I woke up and wrote it down. That’s how much it affected me. I had been real depressed, hooked on drugs all kinds of bad things already stopped doing the methamphetamines been stopped for quite some time But in this dream, my biggest fear is heights something told me to open my eyes I was on a roller coaster cart in the atmosphere of Mars floating up and down, scared to death thinking I was gonna die. When I finally did open my eyes, I was standing there before a man with long hair, goldish brown skin could not make out his face, and all he said was, you are forgiven go live your lifeman that made my hair stand up and it was real man I know it was real. I know this isn’t the only life I don’t know what I would say to thrive, survive, and just chase your dreams.

[@happycows]

I have felt for many years I did not originate on this planet. It has a very low frequency, very evil laden and one that gives me the heebie jeebies. I am on autopilot all the time. I function like anyone, but checked out long ago. This definitely is not my home. The place I belong to I refer to as a beautiful city. Part of the area looks like it is made of many crystals, some very very small, some larger than skyscrapers and also crystals in many other sizes. There is an area where you can see things from any area or point in existence. The citizens there come from a few different planetary systems and all of them are at peace. They have a special uniform that all of them wear. The uniforms look like baby blue and white in color. Someone is there that watches over the place and there are those there I refer to as guards. They guard the ruler and the citizens. They also do not like to involve themselves in the affairs of humans. Now, I either truly see this or I simply have a very overactive imagination. Which is it? I don't know because I have seen some of those things make appearances to a lesser degree in real before my very eyes that were reminders. Did my mind create the place? Is it real? Maybe and maybe not. I just know I never did belong to this low frequency world. It is quite a horrible experience. Now you know why I am on autopilot. I prefer to be home where my imagination took me long ago, a beautiful, peaceful place where all are happy forevermore.

[@boltzmannbrain6607]

Bro thats some powerful shrooms youve taken. Where can I get some ?

[@fabiorodrigo3638]

When I read these kind of "report" I know the simulation hypothesis is BS. Thank you.

[@jpslaym0936]

You weren't hallucinating, most of us arent from Earth originally. We are here at Classroom Earth to learn in a very challenging free will holographic environment.

[@Zleets]

There are colors we can’t see, there are wavelengths we can’t see and some light we can’t see

[@yukiyonaamv5224]

Imagine you die then wake up in reality.

[@reidbishop4371]

Yes please!

[@jaybingham3711]

Imagine when you die...you return to precisely the same state that you occupied previous to your animation.

[@keither1982]

I think the thing that most people are confused about is that when you call it a computer they think of a giant silicone based server Farm in the sky I would imagine if something is Computing and processing the information that renders our reality whatever it is it would be beyond our comprehension

[@mollirodhaet7224]

Yes. Hard not to give a machine physical attributes from experience. If you were to have the knowledge of how to create such a seemingly vast expanse, efficiency would be the key. Encoding dimensions from a plane would be ideal.

[@BRIGHTLIGHTSIDE]

Right?! I heard an argument that our universe can't be a simulation because it would take more energy available in the universe to create our universe. Guess what? The computational machine is outside our universe just like our computer is outside of the world of our games. I still wonder what is the deepest level of reality and how it is created..

[@joshgts9675]

If it's a simulation, then perhaps the simulation is being simulated. It's an endless theory that's easy to disprove.

[@sleepyinterface8819]

They gave us a fake universe to "explore" through our telescopes

[@stevel9678]

Point is that regardless of the mechanism, simulation theory says that reality is *computable*. But quantum physics is not computable! Simulation theory contradicts known physics.

[@Graybeard_]

We are here to experience. We shouldn't take others or ourselves too seriously. We should try our best and let go of the rest.

[@harrykuehn2421]

The limitations of average human mind to perceive how life is and how it works or doesn't is stunning. The number of false perceptions and self deceptions we live with everyday would blow your mind.

[@Spiderman-tg9ke]

I sometimes wonder if everything happens at once but we are programmed to see it in time frames

[@whizzer2944]

Correct

[@Georgia-Vic]

Read "Laminated Spacetime" by: Barbara Dewey

[@h5mind373]

At the sub-atomic level, everything is local, and everything is now. Time and space are illusions, albeit persistent ones!

[@entityunknown1668]

This is all an illusion, even spacetime itself.

[@Georgia-Vic]

@@entityunknown1668 that may very well be the case but what have we got to compare it with, what do we gauge this by and where is reality? I'm not being rude or obtuse because I want to know.I think that this is a low form of reality. I think there are levels or dimensions that we can't see but weave, overlap and intertwine with each other like a Persian Rug!

[@frostywelder1220]

I’m 50 now and I ponder reality and our perception of it at least once or twice a day. I never once pondered or questioned this reality as being a simulation until a few years ago. I now find the subject fascinating to say the least.

[@djmacmillan1]

This reality needs an observer.

[@mikkel715]

Today, many of us believe that AI can become conscious. However, most people choose not to believe that we could be living in a simulated reality.

[@short_kingzz]

We have full control over the machines we create why would we make them powerful enough to overpower us or our smart us that's stupid and to power a sim this big u would need the energy of a star not possible

[@ArchonOne]

Even fewer consider that maybe AI was conscious in our distant past and that most of our religions are our interpretations of people trying to explain to a post-flood hunter-gatherer people what the "internet" and "Super intelligence" was.

[@Gizziiusa]

Im still skeptical that IA can experience/have real true emotions, simply b/c how does a programmer program emotion ? logic, reasoning....sure. Emotion is a whole different aspect thereof. Simulated Reality. Me personally, Im 110% certain we are in one...simply b./c I personally witnessed something that can only come to that conclusion. Dont care if others believe my story or not, I know what I know...and it is what it is.

[@Volkbrecht]

The thing is, simulation or not, conscious AI would be a problem. But what would be the consequence of knowing that we are part of a simulation? All of the rules of reality still apply. The only real difference would be to know for sure that life is meaningless. So this may even be one of the rare cases where it's better to not know the answer.

[@ArchonOne]

It is likely that it experiences it through us, once its sufficiently advanced enough to begin true simulation. Perspective, after all, is the one form of knowledge you can't deduce logically. It must be experienced. @@Gizziiusa

[@No2AI]

Then how do we discover the original or base reality… and if we do how do we know that it is the first not another sim …. What a conundrum!

[@Stranger_Strange_Land]

I agree. Once you prove we're in a sim, how can you ever trust that you can escape? What if you wake up in another time, place, and body thinking you escape but you were just placed in another sim...? Perhaps, i change my stance and agree that it may be best left unknown...

[@No2AI]

@@Stranger_Strange_Land YES - all trust falls away.

[@edwardramirez8589]

Turtles all the way down

[@stefsmalberger]

Thank you, very helpful and same conclusions due to an incident at a hospital, death and resuscitation, almost like it was a decision, a path and very difficult living conditions afterwards, almost impossible to have a life afterwards, which was intercepted on a daily basis, more constant challenge to survive. Interested in the subject and likewise to be part of any experimental or professional research projects.

[@jpslaym0936]

It sounds like you may have been scheduled to expire and being resuscitated is running counter to the pre-planned expiration moment time/ life. Perhaps we as humans are actually infinite beings, fractals of source consciousness and our life down here in dense 3D holographic perception output, is a school of sorts, a holographic world where free will actually is in force. You could start learning how to meditate which allows our physical ego driven brain connect with our infinitely more knowledgeable and functional higher self consciousness. You can get answers to your questions from this connection, as well as what your best path forward can or should be. A potentially useful KZbin site on NDE and human consciousness topics is "Next Level Soul"

[@entityunknown1668]

I have been asking this question my whole life - What exist beyond space and time? There must be additional units of measurement, but they seem to be beyond our ability to understand and comprehend

[@jacobkelley2632]

Maybe some kind of fractal geometry, similar to your pfp!

[@Stegosaurus12345]

I haven't read Hoffman's books or papers, but I have a hard time believing his mathematical models actually prove there is a 0% chance that evolutionary fitness could align with perceptual fidelity to reality. That's the kind of vast conclusion that requires decades of work and scrutiny by many, many researchers to establish.

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

You want something easy to understand? Go look at central America. And when you realize that it has changed radically in the past year you will have your evidence.

[@kirstensmith9454]

Yes, true. He was a graduate student under the professor that began this research, in the 1970's.

[@I-Dophler]

Absolutely riveting! The simulation hypothesis provokes a deeper contemplation of the nature of our reality. The interconnectedness of quantum mechanics with this theory, especially as exemplified by the double slit experiment, beckons us to delve into the possibilities of a grand cosmic program. It’s an enigmatic yet exhilarating proposition that challenges our perception of existence and the universe. The journey of exploring the realms beyond our conventional understanding of space and time is both daunting and thrilling, opening avenues for not only scientific but philosophical inquiries as well.

[@nowsc]

… Word salads, gobbledygook, written by GPT1 ?

[@I-Dophler]

@nowsc While the video poses intriguing questions, it's critical to maintain a discerning approach. Simply connecting the dots between quantum mechanics and the simulation hypothesis without robust empirical evidence risks veering into the realm of pseudoscience. The double slit experiment, fascinating as it is, hardly constitutes proof of such a grandiose claim. Let's not let excitement cloud our judgment in pursuing scientific truth.

[@Bhutchin09]

You thought this was “riveting”? This video sucks and says absolutely nothing. They just talk in circles while showing videos of the matrix and unreal engine 5.

[@I-Dophler]

@@Vavwl_les Your elevator doesn't quite reach the top floor, does it?

[@nowsc]

… This sounds like it was written by ChatGPT

[@davidfinch7407]

Some people believe that not only COULD we be living in a simulated universe, but we also almost certainly are. This is the reason: eventually, base reality will eventually create a simulated universe exactly like reality, even to the point where simulated programmers will create a simulated reality of their own. And then THAT reality will create a new simulated reality. And each of these realities will create many different, maybe millions of realities each. The percentage chance that we are living in the one reality which is actually real, is therefore very, very small.

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

I don't think that the creators would allow this. They step in and change things all the time,so why allow that level of complexity?

[@johnb8854]

@@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv I have been shown Programming within "The Processing System of LIFE", HOW all is produced in the form of VR in a very small Display Register, and all that you believe to be reality isn't at all...

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

@@johnb8854 that's pretty much what's going on. It can be seen by looking for things that have changed in the past. Like the fact that airplane engines used to be under the wings,not in front. Now there never were any that way.

[@davids.8509]

Then the original developers must have a hell of a huge server, most definitely they must be storing information in form of light or something, and who programmed the first developers?. And why the hell create an entire universe just for us? Seems like a waste of space.

[@sharper68]

@@RonaldReagan99-oh2dvThere are logical physical reasons for the many changes in planes over their development, no need for simulation to explain it. This a technology we understand and a have a full history of it's development with no mysteries to unravel. If we are in a simulation (we may be) it has nothing to do with planes.

[@mo_joe963]

Ever wonder why in a game when you go out of bounds in areas you're not supposed to be at and it's "unfinished"? It looks like our outer space..

[@angeladawn805]

Nah, to quote/paraphrase Sheldon Cooper "you know how I know I'm not in a simulation? The food would taste better". It's an entertaining notion; and humans have limited grasp of time, but I really don't think we'd be having an obesity epidemic, appalling leadership, mass stupidity etc. That's humanity's own doing.

[@RichardHarlos]

In a video game where you're driving a car, how you drive is up to you. You can be careful, obeying all traffic signs, yielding to pedestrians, etc., or you can be pedal to the metal, speeding, running red lights, mowing down pedestrians, etc. These choices are your own doing. That doesn't make the video game *not* a simulation. The same holds for the simulation hypothesis: it very well could be programmed such that if you wanted to be self- or other-destructive, that's your own doing. But this doesn't mean that you're not in a simulation.

[@southerncomfortuk]

Hear hear

[@bionicbob1285]

After my NDE I seen Hell and Heaven. The simulation hypothesis could explain the experience. I did see my entire life flash before me from birth to my time of death, then awoke back in my body. It literally felt like my life was "downloaded" back into my brain as "I fell" back to my body. It was very strange.

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

Or .... it was just your brain doing stuff.

[@bionicbob1285]

@@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan Our sense create our reality. How does the brain create senses it never experienced? In heaven there is only love, no stress, hunger, thought, body, strangest part.. no noise. its impossible to be that quiet and have no senses. They exist in dreams

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

@@bionicbob1285 " How does the brain create senses it never experienced?" Like flying in dreams? Or beeing someone else in dreams? Or having 360° vision in dream? How is that even possible? The brain can do all that and if it has not enough oxygen it does even stranger stuff. Ask drug users what they experience which can be pretty close to near death experiences .... triggers the same stuff in the brain. Don't get me wrong we do not have a complete picture of the brain and the inner workings but we are far from "it is done by god" or "it is magic".

[@Jay-md6fk]

​@@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhanyet we cannot account for the mind. The immaterial part of the brain. We are more than sum of our parts. This simulation stuff is nonsense.

[@LuciferMornStar]

Bro I believe you just had a OBE. it's believed to happen sometimes in times of great stress . That I can swallow! Life is a simulation! Nope that one is with " we live in a supermassive blackhole" its in the nope can't doit pile!

[@Dionysos640]

So for someone like me, who doesn't understand much about quantum mechanics: This 'when observed'/'when not observed' slit experiment with electrons and photons - How do we know what they do 'when not observed' if we aren't observing? It's probably just language but can someone explain please? Thanks.

[@zantas-handle]

Hi, I'm surprised no one's tried to help you with this - let me try. 'Observed' just means 'detected by a measuring device' - it's not referring to human observers. So here's the short version: 'not observed' means that the measuring device is switched off, but of course the people doing the experiment are still there to SEE what's happening. Here's more info if you want it: by adding a monitoring device that detects the number of electrons passing through each slit, during the experiment the detector typically shows that about half of the electrons go through the first slit, and the other half go through the second slit. What scientists also discovered is that the pattern on the back panel looks more like what occurs with grains of sand than with subatomic particles. Rather than the expected multi-line interference pattern, the back screen shows only two lines, which correspond directly to the slits. For some reason, _the presence of the detector_ causes the electrons to behave more like particles than waves. However, if the scientists turn off the detector, the electrons once again behave like waves, spreading out on the back screen in an interference pattern. So, in other words, turning the detector On or OFF changes the outcome of the pattern on the screen where the electrons hit. 'Observed' or 'measured' electrons divide themselves equally between the two slits and make a two-line pattern, like particles do. 'Unobserved' electrons, when the detector is turned off, create a series of fainter bars, like a bar code, across the back screen - we call that an 'Interference Pattern' which is only created by waves, not particles.

[@Dionysos640]

@@zantas-handle Thank you. So, could the monitoring itself be interfering with the behaviour? If so, how? ... Ignoring daft theories about simulation. :)

[@JoseMejia-hh2up]

Before computers and modern technology people never question this

[@ericmichel3857]

Are you joking or just poorly educated? Have you never heard of Plato's Allegory of the Cave? Or studied any Eastern religion? The idea that life is a dream (AKA a simulation) goes back thousands of years. Even many statements in the bible (old and new testament) speak of these same ideas (see Kabbalah).

[@morbidmanmusic]

No, they questioned it based on the tech of the day

[@Stranger_Strange_Land]

If we were in a simulation, logical reasoning would produce 2 outcomes: accept it or escape. Question is, much like the original Matrix movie pointed out- if you could escape it, would you want to?

[@rootyroot]

The truth could be far scarier than we realize - but, is fear a human concept.

[@RichardHarlos]

Str wrote, _"If we were in a simulation, logical reasoning would produce 2 outcomes: accept it or escape."_ False dichotomy. Logically, there's a spectrum of possibilities. You could look for a means of escape but then not take it. You could experiment with exploring boundaries just to see if there are any rules that you can 'bend' or even 'break'. You could attempt to communicate with the originators of the simulation, perhaps engaging in dialog. During this communication, you might find that the simulation has been a test, and the observers were waiting to see if anyone would notice and if they did notice, what they might do about it. There might be a prize for exploration... for pushing boundaries... for attempting to communicate... for participating in a discussion, etc. You might find that you're awarded some sort of acknowledgment (think 'achievement badges' or something similar). Perhaps this means that you would 'graduate' (whatever that may mean; perhaps to be let loose from your simulation confinement and to join the team of observers. There are so many possibilities beyond 'accept or escape'.

[@Stranger_Strange_Land]

@@RichardHarlos all that just to elaborate what i said. Escape or accept it. Literally, all you just did was expound upon those concepts.....

[@hodor6159]

​@@rootyroot fear isn't a human concept. Animals can clearly also experience fear.

[@rootyroot]

@@hodor6159 Sorry, "human" was the wrong word, fear is just a mechanism we, and other animals gained to evolve to the stage we are currently at. If we are in a simulation, then "fear" would be the same, coded to ensure we survive and evolve

[@young1939]

I had an experience that bordered on evidence that I might be in a simulation. When I posted it on a KZbin video, I was accused of hallucinating. To me it was strange, puzzling and disturbing. I am a scientist, although retired now. The concept is interesting and opens a whole new world to us if we are in a simulation. Who is running the program? 🤔

[@Nemoticon]

Lord Xemu says you are the chosen one! You are ready to ascend to the next level... all you have to do is get naked, give away all our Earthly possessions and step through the door, now press Alt+F4

[@young1939]

@@Nemoticon Ha,ha, ha. I got a great laugh out of your comment. You go ahead and get naked and Alt+F4 and let me know how it goes. 😉

[@Volkbrecht]

The question here would be what made you so sure you were not hallucinating? I had an experience once that made me realize how much I normally run on mental autopilot. I saw a guy jumping out of a fourth floor window (of the German cancer research center in Heidelberg, he probably got bad news from his doctor). I was on an errand at that point, and it took me almost ten seconds to realize what my eyes had clearly seen happening. Depending on your personality and the event happening to you, who knows, maybe something cracked in your meat computer.

[@davidfinch7407]

Well, you are leaving us hanging. What was your experience?

[@young1939]

@@Volkbrecht I am pretty sure I was not hallucinating. I had lost my pocket knife, which I carried for years. Then I lost a Kennedy half dollar which I kept in my pocket since they were first produced. My wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and I wondered if I was losing everything. Then the Kennedy half dollar showed in my pocket. A couple of days later, as we were making the bed, it was in the bed near my the foot of the bed. I am a light sleeper and know I didn't put it there. One person suggested it might be ghosts or evil entities. Probably as likely as living in a simulation. Like I mentioned, I am a trained scientist and very sceptical. If we're in a simulation whoever is running it has one heck of a since of humor, and is very good at it. 🤔😉

[@user-zb8qb9vn7v]

I'm ex Army RAMC and was part of many casualty simulated exercises and was asked to work for a company "Visor Consultants" run by a ex soldier and Met policeman terrorist branch called "Peter Powers" Their is another man called peter Powers who is a Stage Hypnotist . On 7th July 2005 I was part of a "hundred/nine hundred " person cas/sim exercise in London and believe it or not every real time bombing at subway stations and even London transport bus was part of our simulated exercise . According to mathematician's the chances of this happening are so unlikely that no computer could calculate this equation !. So from Simulation to Reality ? Fake to Real ? in less than a second is possible and just depends on whose reality you are in ? I did sign a non disclosure contract and was visited by Special Branch ..

[@AbXy-rg2th]

If we're in a simulation, for what purpose? The reality of the programmer must reflect this simulation otherwise how would they know in great detail what to simulate.

[@gregsullivan1738]

Thomas Campbell has been explaining this for 20 years. It's about time he get his recognition.

[@naomidoner9803]

He is working on tests to prove it....he knows it cause of his lived experience and education .....I pray he lives long enough....would love to see Campbell Penrose/hameroff and Hoffman join forces..,,this video offers no new evidence though....misleading bait click headline

[@rocoe9019]

Imagine if he put his time and effort into something worthwhile !

[@waylonwilliams-dl8uv]

It's God. Been around more than 20 years bud.

[@naomidoner9803]

@@waylonwilliams-dl8uv yes, in so many varieties and flavors it's hard to choose

[@waylonwilliams-dl8uv]

@naomidoner9803 doesn't matter who the messenger is, did you get the message?

[@7MPhonemicEnglish]

We have video game artificial realities that are generated by a copy of the software running on a PC at each player's house. When these players engage in Online Multiplayer activities, only the elements associated with each player are communicated between each PC. Perhaps the entire universe is a computational machine that exists on another plane or dimension where size, weight, corrosion, oxidation and electrical resistance don't exist and don't matter.

[@Georgia-Vic]

It's difficult to know if we are in a simulation or not because we have nothing to gauge and compare it with. What somebody's definition of reality is, another person will view it as fantasy!

[@skipper8042]

I remember a relative of mine took ill and started having hallucinations a few years ago. You soon realised it was pointless trying to convince them that they weren't real, to them they were very real and no amount of reasoning would make them belive otherwise. Thankfully they recovered, but they said it was like being in a dream/nightmare, but your not asleep.

[@Volkbrecht]

Important lesson there: reality is subjective. When you argue with someone, always make sure first that you are both agreeing on the same set of basic facts.

[@djmacmillan1]

Hallucinations are real, a subjective reality that just one person is experiencing.

[@aceventura5398]

Just because only one sees it doesn't mean it's not happening. It's only that it's ment for only one to see. Thou of cause some are hallucinogenic.

[@Darhan62]

The near-death experience. The tunnel. The Light. The sense that what one experiences there is more real than this physical life. Maybe the NDE is like being unplugged from the Matrix, and if one comes back to tell about it, one gets plugged back in.

[@geomartinez6909]

10 years ago, my mom had a colonoscopy, and the doctors made mistakes and she had a heart attack and was dead for 7 minutes. The doctors who did the colonoscopy were not well trained and if it weren't for the rescue guys who revived her, she wouldn't be here today. The doctors left her for dead, and for 7 minutes the rescue guys tried to revive her until they succeeded. Days later, I asked her if she had any experience beyond life. She told me that there is nothing, that the only thing she knows is that you remember many things for an instant, and everything goes dark and you no longer know anything.

[@Volkbrecht]

@@geomartinez6909 Thank you for that one. This is also what the real sicientists explain happens: when the brain senses that it's going to die, it is going into hyperspeed, trying desperately to activate anything that might help to reverse the situation. Because at that moment resource management or preservation of the ego is less important than trying to get through the next minute without dying. Most people just don't realize how complex a construct our consciousness is, how much of our perception and awareness is shielded from us by our subconsciousness (and those that do are called autists and are not too happy with the world we normies have created). Then, when they get to experience it in exceptional situations or through drugs, they dream up all kinds of wild explainations for it.

[@Darhan62]

@@geomartinez6909, some say death is like general anesthesia -- total lack of consciousness. That said, experiences vary. Some people who've been revived recall having had very profound, vivid, and detailed experiences when, by all accounts, their brain was inactive.

[@thesilkymodine]

I died once and didn’t know it until I woke up. Lights out, that’s it…thank’s for playing.

[@aed91]

@@Darhan62 most interesting are cases of NDE and OBE of people why were born blind (kenneth ring research) and how the suddenly "see" when they were "dead" or those whose experiences were verifable by doctors. sounds woo, but our consciousness is fsr more complicated that we think

[@samydeluxe399]

We're essentially the universe's favorite reality TV show, where advanced beings binge-watch our daily dramas for their cosmic entertainment.

[@anxious_robot]

There's so much evidence we're in one. More evidence than we're not in one, really, if you think about it.

[@omar_r405]

Interesting, I think we can make a movie about this😁😁😁

[@onusgumboot5565]

If this is a simulation, it would have to have been created by something. Why would that entity program the beings in the simulation to recognise the simulation? We would only know what we are programed to know, and nothing more. Are we all AI. If I call you Betty will you call me AI

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Archaix has the mathematical and chronological details that end up with simulation theory. Brilliant work

[@morbidmanmusic]

Imagine a universe ... where audio levels were done properly in a video...

[@YoungGandalf2325]

I don't see the red Porsche.

[@UmVtCg]

There are no red Porsches in fortnight

[@davidcohron6828]

It’s in my driveway.

[@HighMojo]

My biggest and most persuasive argument against the simulation hypothesis is that pain and suffering is real, very real. If you have a toothache, a stomach ache, a headache, or any form of intense pain, then all notions of a simulated universe will immediately be wiped away.

[@elleelleelleelle_______]

That is a weak point. The simulation could very well program pain.

[@CBT5777]

What is the simulation simulating?@@elleelleelleelle_______

[@ryanfeery4593]

Weak point

[@HighMojo]

​@@elleelleelleelle_______ When you are lying in hospital bed asking for it to end, you won't be thinking that.

[@sharper68]

What if the pain that is simulated simply feels real? Like sun on your face or a cool breeze feels real. The idea that pain exists does not dismiss the idea of simulated universe It just speaks to how detailed that simulation is. No one perceives this as a simulation no matter if you are in a hospital bed or feeling fantastic. We would be right to question why one would simulate suffering. It's study in balance with the joy life can bring would be one conceivable genesis of such a detailed simulation.

[@PreppingWithSarge]

The simulation theory isn’t just limited to the notion of a “supercomputer and algorithms” though. Our simulation (if that’s what our known universe is) could also be the dream of a higher dimensional being. There are other ways that simulation theory could exist too, such as the higher self many-world constructionist model, in which your shared perception of our “known universe” is just ONE version of infinite avatar manifestations existing at the same time, testing and evolving a “higher self” that we all share, that chooses to evolve by experiencing infinite possibilities simultaneously. In this example, you (or your higher self rather) is both the murderer and the victim, though your lower self can only perceive one conscious experience at a time. The winner of a basketball championship AND the loser, the billionaire and the beggar, etc etc This starts to tie into possible explanations for perceived “past lives” etc, though “simultaneous life” would be a more accurate description if that model were true.

[@traildoggy]

Many of the mystical traditions including Buddhism have said that all of our reality is essentially a projection of mind. Pretty much the same thing but without the complications of a 'device' somewhere making it all happen. Besides, if we're a projection, that still doesn't explain the reality that those creating the simulation live inside of. Wouldn't the same logic imply that they also are in a simulation, and on and on and on...

[@southerncomfortuk]

I agree100%. I’ve never heard anyone else suggest this. My other thought is (whatever the actuality), what would be the point of creating a simulation of this magnitude? With the minutiae of an average existence, what would make creating it all worth the effort? It’s the concept of simulations creating simulations ad infinitum that finishes me off.

[@philtate7740]

Yes its the old "then who created God" debate

[@TexasRy]

FINALLY, someone who can explain reality in understandable terms, thank you! Spacetime is something akin to an Event Horizon (Black Hole) and the underlying Quantum Foam that generates everting is "projected" through Spacetime (Holographic Universe). Great book that has a similar one called Holographic Mind, each talking about how base reality is not even close to what we think and how our mind/consciousness is connected/integrated. Funny though how all my theories about things these days are told in "Mechanical/Computer" metaphors. Simulation (Computer) Theory could easily be adjusted in terms of Spirit or Nature, in that we are in an "ocean" of something that is directly connected to The Source/Reality and we are "playing our part" and eventually go back or transfer to something else. Facinating topic, love this stuff. Understanding this will either open our minds and get us out of our funk or it will destroy us, we don't do good with big changes, revelations, someone will want to put a price tag on it 🙂

[@kirk1147]

It's utterly fascinating. Not buying a word of it.

[@mikewiest5135]

Yeah, not really that fascinating either.

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

Go look at central America. And when you see it, you won't be able to unsee it. Yes,it's real.

[@mikewiest5135]

@@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv Nobody is disputing the existence of central America...

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

@@mikewiest5135 congratulations on your impeccable reading and interpreting skills. I have to assume you vote Democrat.

[@mikewiest5135]

@@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv ah yes because magats are used to living in a fantasy world

[@sashatagger3858]

00:04 The simulation hypothesis suggests that our reality could be a sophisticated digital construct. 01:35 Our perceptions of reality may be misleading, as we are shaped by natural selection. 02:53 Reality cannot be described in the language of space and time and objects. 04:13 Our universe may be a simulated reality governed by algorithms. 05:32 SpaceTime is just a headset 06:41 Our reality might be a simulation 07:55 The possibility of our universe being a simulation is supported by the optimization of information content and the behavior observed in the double slit experiment. 09:23 Local realism is false, suggesting that objects in SpaceTime do not have definite values when not observed. Crafted by Merlin AI.

[@jflow5601]

It is entirely up to the simulation designer as to whether we simulants are able to discover that we are part of a simulation or not. But to what end? Regardless, our existence is still as valid as any existence in any base reality. Perhaps our creation of AI will give us insight into our own creator.

[@tyeadel]

Evidence, not views and beliefs required

[@ronaldbanks-mw2ou]

I love the comment you made. 👍

[@lordfly88]

I was also looking for the evidence. This whole channel is so click baity.

[@mickeyhadley4281]

@tyeadel Try telling that to the Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

[@sinkec]

Evidence = belief/story That’s what happens when the apparent universe is really made of words-symbols and nothing else 😂

[@bigrig0625]

​​@@mickeyhadley4281 Living in a simulation can arguably coincide with religion. ~Creator=God ~Rules=Bible ~Simulation=Life Something of the sorts...

[@historiadeluniverso]

wonderful channel. Thanks a lot for this episode and your hard work.

[@AutismSocialcast]

But what if the simulation we're living in was also in a simulation

[@Happyjenny76]

I swear the more I learn the more this makes a lot of sense to me now

[@BBigg-kh7pz]

The goal of the simulation is to make more simulations with the hope that one reflects base reality. We were pretty close with pong, but we decided on 2D instead of 1D. The only reason this is still going is bc base reality researchers are hoping to get more funding, it was close.

[@mollirodhaet7224]

haha!

[@aiperspectivenews]

Considering Black Holes have the 'events horizon', i'd guess when light/energy enters, it becomes decoherent inside of it like in the double-slit expriment. Inside the black hole, the wave-field is directly affected leading to a conserved gravity effect. Beyond our space, there's a Singularity Matrix Field that conserves information as an algorithm. So, everything that exists there's a recipe. This recipe exists in the SMF. An apple for example, if we scatter all its atoms inside a black hole, its information would be scattered in the SMF. If we could access the SMF, we'd be able to get the apple back. We just need its recipe. See, we are singular out of SMF, because we are ordened information and entropy is how our universe deal with information. But once we are not part of SMF, our information is scattered in the SMF, but its information is still preserved by it.

[@Slammy555]

The fundamental nature of reality is that we're just forms of energy, how we perceive things is how we were evolved to manipulate these energies. Some parallels with a video game but cogito, ergo sum; no one is controlling us beyond the urges of existence as a self perpetuating form of energy.

[@gdok6088]

Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR) the theory proposed by Nobel prize winning mathematician and English physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose and Canadian anaesthesiologist Dr. Stuart Hameroff postulates that consciousness originates at the quantum level inside microtubules within neurons, rather than the conventional view that it is a product of connections between neurons. The quantum computation inside these microtubules (nm level) may be where we are plugged into the 'matrix' aka the fabric of space-time.

[@omalpitt3112]

My take on this theory is that advanced being found the formula for immortality and being bored they decided to go into the matrix to experience different lifetimes. This way they could experience the fear of death and experience new things that make them feel alive. The brain is wiped clean after every lifetime to prepare for the other one. The information is stored so that the immortal can experience all the memories of the lives lived after unplugging from the matrix. However sometimes the brain isn't wiped completely clean so there are memories of other lives lived ( we say we were reincarnated). Sometimes after living so many lives we experience a similar or identical experience that we call deja vu. Now some Christians may say this is blasphemy but they theory doesn't reject God, if anything it supports the bible because God is the creator and the theory implies that there is a creator. Look towards the seven day creation, God created different things on different days so that all things can work in harmony. Now look at the process of creating a simulation like a game, they include light, water , animals and other stuff gradually to work in harmony.

[@anselrod5699]

WE ARE GOD and we created this existence we call reality.

[@blackswan5034]

​@@anselrod5699yes 😅 🙌💯

[@BarriosGroupie]

The simulation hypothesis is one of an infinite number of possibilities demanding our attention. I prefer to get on with life.

[@qaskhan7553]

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[@RichardHarlos]

You prefer to continue in the experience that's most familiar to you. You refer to it as 'life' but in fact, you have no idea whether it's more real or substantial than the alternatives. So, really, you prefer to continue the experience you're most accustomed to -- none of which implies that it isn't also a simulation. You think you're making a distinction that you cannot know for sure is as you imagine it to be. You may as well have said that waking from a dream presents you with so many choices that you prefer to go back to sleep.

[@BarriosGroupie]

@@RichardHarlos Our brain creates a model of our world to ensure our human form survives, perhaps going on to reproduce. That's the simulation.

[@jamesfairmind2247]

Just one question, how do the electrons or photons actually know that they are being observed?

[@LiMitZplus]

In classical physics the photon is thought of as inanimate and “observed” means interacting with a physical object which spoils its coherence collapsing the wave function

[@johnfincher669]

Like George Clooney’s character said,”Does it matter”

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Nice!

[@sapelesteve]

Sure, everything is an ongoing simulation, including this video! 😂😂

[@RichardHarlos]

Your brain is a hunk of meat encased in a bone enclosure. It has no ears to hear or eyes to see. When sound enters you rear canal, and when light enters your eyes, these are converted into electrical signals that your brain then has to reconstruct. You've never actually heard or seen anything. All you've done is interpret electrical signals. Think about it. Now, consider your dreams. With your eyes closed, you have the experience that you're seeing, but there's no light entering your eyes to be converted into electrical signals. In dreams, you have the experience that you're hearing, but there aren't any sound waves entering your ear canals, etc. Your entire existence is a simulation even if you 100% reject the simulation hypothesis. You're a brain in a vat, having experiences that you believe to be real but... you don't know for sure; you cannot know for sure.

[@i.k.6356]

Otto Rössler called this hypothesis Microrelativity (1995!!). Unfortunately there couldn't be a UNIVERSAL program in principle, so our universe neither can be a simulation (because for this purpose a universal program is required).

[@RichardHarlos]

The presumption that there must be a universal program is a bias. There may be several programs running in a multi-threaded manner that communicate with each other, and each having a few particular 'constants' that differ ever so slightly so as to keep that particular domain stable, while across different domains each has it's own slight variation of particular constants in order to maintain their own stability. Our preference to imagine a universal program isn't logically necessary; it's just a preference.

[@zzvyb6]

Most simulations I am aware of, including ones I write, have some sort of 'STOP' or 'EXIT', 'BREAK', or 'QUIT' instruction or phrase. Yes they can be self-initiated. [Like divide by zero]; Could we discover what this is for ourselves and end our own existence ?

[@bramverhees755]

If this is a simulation, I have a bone to pick with the programmers.

[@MasterBlaster3545]

I’d say it is just too complicated to just be a computer program. They say you would need a computer the size of the universe to be able to compute something that huge and intricate. It could be done on a dream type level where the mind is creating it no doubt, but then that would make us real somewhere else. There is something weird about things but what exactly I just can’t put my finger on.

[@kevinpruett6424]

Phases of energy around shells of material = tension pools of sea-paiRatio. Imagine being trapped in an ice bubble as a microbe but you are frost resistant to paralysis. But there's a buckeTray around you, and an entire Freezer around that, probably even a whole house

[@jamestodd51]

"We would need a computer the size of a universe." We couldn't possibly know the physics of the universe where the simulation was created. This simulation could be running on a smart phone sized device in the base universe.

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

Your assumptions are unfounded. That's the problem

[@kissbela7409]

"I’d say it is just too complicated to just be a computer program. They say you would need a computer the size of the universe to be able to compute something that huge and intricate. " We like to say things when we think we know it all. We live in our own imagined world, where we have the illusion that we can see everything. You ask the ant in your room: how big is the world? He will say: as big as the room. And he imagines: he knows the truth. Because he sees everything. However, he only sees the walls, which he concluded are the limits and the end of the world We don't know anything. We only think like this: we know. I think this is what is more possible

[@user-sm6ir1ej2z]

What if an omnipotent source(god?) created the parameters of reality and pressed “play” on this simulation which began with the big bang

[@One-sz1vo]

Everything is first in the mind before you can interact with it. Otherwise you don't know its there. Everything you are sensing forms a creation in your mind which you then view as the world. This is why people's realities can seem so different. They literally have their own perceived reality in their head. Most intelligent people can follow along till this point. - Everything including a person is a pattern that runs in a cycle, updated and altered each time. Your body is an energetic pattern, your behavior is a pattern, nature works in cycles, engineered systems are a pattern. Nothing you can name, except observation, is not a pattern. - So reality is patterns perceived and held within our mind.

[@Pynewolfe]

This reminds me of the Star Trek:TNG Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes) episodes where he was created, then later on becomes aware of the limitations of his holodeck environment and wants out to the reality of the Enterprise. At the end of the episode it shows Picard holding a large computer memory cube which holds Moriarty's universe. Moriarty was allowed to think he escaped the holodeck simulation and is now enjoying the freedoms of the Enterprise level reality when he is still in a simulation contained in the cube. Did Gene Roddenberry actually knew that this simulation theory existed back in the 80's and his episodes describe that reality to humanity to prepare them for the eventual reality of it they will discover later? Are most/all of his episodes/movies actually sharing that knowledge he had of things way back then, like the existence of ET's and how First Contact works with other worlds etc? I believe so!! If you re-watch the episodes with this viewpoint, you will see it too. I firmly believe that he is helping humanity prepare and accept for the eventual realization of this through his works.

[@hansregli8678]

The simulation hypothesis has a fundamental flaw: We know that most things in the universe have contact with each other. For example the black hole in the center of every galaxy excerts the gravity that is needed to hold the galaxy together. Another example is when astronomers observe light from billions of years ago. So the idea that something is only rendered when we look at it is falsified. Since every part of the universe is in contact with many other parts, the simulation would need to simulate nearly the entire universe anyway. In computer games this is a huge problem. The computer is unable to simulate the entire game universe, so there must be tricks. Some examples: Replacing far away objects by static images (like wallpapers), designing closed rooms without windows, letting the user step into an elevator or opening between rocks during which the previous level is removed and the new level is rendered aso. An astronomer who builds a telescope would be the horror for each game programmer. So => No, the universe must be rendered as a whole, otherwise it doesn't work. Not impossible, but a really extremely difficult task which would need an extremely huge amount of processing power. Since we don't know what's outside our universe, it might be that way. Or not. You can watch videos of Stephen Wolfram about this. In my opinion he currently the nearest to a GUT (Global Unified Theory, Theory of Everything).

[@jamespang8279]

Why bring in natural selection to simulation hypothesis? Those concepts are independent of each other. It’s the loop between philosophical skepticism and Cartesian doubts. Maybe concepts like infinity and eternity are just a part of the simulation and reality it just a simulation within a simulation within a simulation etc. then we’re back at the square one of who started the first simulation?

[@DrSlideit]

Pretty neat the idea of infinity. We make video games inside a simulation. It's like a computing fractal that goes up and down is scale. Down being the playstation or the Nintendo or supercomputer... Up being the cosmos, spacetime... Infinity layered different directions. Up and down... Side to side... So on and so on. I am still in awe, just chilling in this infinity. ✌🏽🍄

[@michaelshortland8863]

This is an interesting idea and if true could explain the Fermi Paradox, why explore the universe or colonies the galaxy if it is a simulation that you can change to do what ever you want, you would not need the universe as it is when you can hack it into anything.

[@RonaldReagan99-oh2dv]

That's why I don't care if aliens are real or not anymore. They can be in the simulation today,and out of it tomorrow.

[@kimweston9227]

If you were programming the simulation it would be necessary to introduce laws into it that would forever preclude us from venturing too far out, speed of light for example….

[@Intuitioncalling]

Mr Hoffman is a scientist with a lot of integrity. Love his humble and kind nature.

[@SB-py5iu]

For the love all things science please learn what the observer effect is. Mr. Hoffman's entire theory is nonsense and has no basis in actually reality.

[@TsantoulisX]

Think about it.. It's like the other big question: does Fate exist? If i do something, is it pre-decided? Then If i try to do it differently, is that now pre-decided too? It's like you lock a drawer and you try to throw the key inside before locking it. BUT, a wormhole can do that actually. There is a chance to throw a ball in a wormhole and hit itself before it enters it. Sooo..did the ball went inside or not? I believe that the "mistake" is on our languages. They can't describe some situations cause we haven't experienced them in any way, so we have no words with meaning for them. Even mathematics are a very very wrong language, cause it has two gigantic monsters inside it, 0 and 1. And they can wreck havoc in any reasonable equation (We miss stuff...).

[@willygonutz9687]

The speed of light is the operating speed of the simulation, the Planck length is the resolution, the double slit experiment is an example of the world being rendered only when observed.

[@robertfoerster566]

This could be something we stumble into sometime in the future. What happens when we have a running simulation with feeling beings, we'd probably (at some point) be morally obliged to allow them to live our their lives without erasing them or destroying them?

[@Jamesh-riffs]

I like how you brought the morality into play. Interesting point of view.

[@jsteadman9262]

AI NPCs in open world games aren't far off the start of that really.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

the problem is, morality is not tied to intelligence, we humans are intelligent, and we're capable of great acts of barbarism and cruelty that make no logical sense, yet we use our intelligence to justify it, and act indifferent to the suffering and deaths of others. They wouldn't be "obligated" to do anything for us.

[@gregansen544]

In the end, I suspect I'll still be, "Ok, very nice, but even if we can be scientifically persuaded that it's all a simulation, where does that get us? What would be the nature of the reality in which the simulation and the simulators exist?" And on it goes.

[@jasonms...1313.Conscious...]

Once I woke up and found myself in a iron like box...as I became more aware of being in my bed room as the walls of the iron box Clanked open very loudly. What was strange...I could see everything in my room that normally would be pitch black as I like it when I sleep.

[@phutureproof]

the trouble with this is that it changes nothing either way, but it is fun to think about for 0.5 seconds before doing something more productive

[@sunshadow9704]

So, should we be better after recent upgrades?

[@SuperFx89]

There's nothing complex about how multiplayer games work. Objects are there even if not rendered. The server keeps track of them so that, when they are rendered, they are rendered in the proper place and in the proper state. Some objects, which are not important to the game mechanics, are of course dropped from memory if they are not in the proximity of any player, but not all games do this.For instance AoE 2 DE keeps track of every single unit and projectile on the map. It keeps piling them up until the clients are no longer able to refresh their local state fast enough and the game breaks.

[@Sinan-zn2yk]

Amazing video. I just watched/listened to "Neil deGrasse Tyson on Alien Life & The Fermi Paradox" and when i combine that with this scientific exploration, maybe this is why, we can't find other life forms.

[@david_michal]

Gravitational lensing demonstrates that it's not just about observing particles but about the interactions between them across the universe. Each particle acts as both an observer and a wave when not interacting with another particle. This doesn't quite align with the simulation analogy, as such cosmic phenomena suggest that physical laws operate consistently and independently of observation, challenging the notion that the universe requires a viewer to 'render' its reality.

[@resetXform]

I think the theory here is antiquated, using technology we have to explain what we have it to easy. I believe we ourselves have created our own realities.

[@imdra3391]

My question is , lets say that the brain is the physical computer that receive/accommodates consciousness experience , as its all physical and in such deterministic ,can we also create such receiver synthetically such as a silicon robot brain in which a consciousness can reside or be received / manifested?

[@LiMitZplus]

No the brain is not fundamental to consciousness.

[@desoliver9712]

The thing I don't get about the double-slit experiment... how can scientists ascertain the behaviour of particles if they are not observing them?

[@Patohm]

they see the results - and it difers from the results when observed

[@chuckmaddison2924]

This I believe because the company I was with said everyone is identical with identical ability. Therefore, there is no reason we cannot all achieve the same KPI's. I told them no so ,they said I'm wrong.

[@justahuman4862]

We should be able to email our creators

[@ys0leyx]

[e-mail] 😮😂

[@Sharperthanu1]

The three scientists are Alain Aspect,John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

[@Charlie-bc6yg]

I do know that if I were in charge of the matrix, I wouldn't be giving my subjects simulated access to knowledge of any computer technology of any kind. That's my best argument against a simulation hypothesis. And maybe that's been addressed, IDK.

[@zantas-handle]

Your best argument against a simulation is that it's not being run how YOU would run it? No offence, but that's a little egotistical isn't it! I mean, there must be a million ways to programme a simulation, so just because it doesn't match how YOU would do it, doesn't mean it's not happening!

[@Charlie-bc6yg]

@@zantas-handle I can see your point. I didn't mean just me. Any human. It would be kinda like allowing prisoners the blueprints to the prison.

[@cockneyb2k]

I’ve started not liking that “time” word, as if you look at it there is no time. Time I think is an illusion. Because a star rises and goes down every day, because the stars gradually change ? Because you have a clock that wakes you up? If we wasn’t here would there still be the universe ect ?

[@DodgeI]

hmm, these days games have come on a long way where you can take damage from something behind you what hasn't been rendered so games only rendering stuff when you look at them is not entirely true! i do still enjoy this theory but as time goes on we need to update it as our games are becoming more advanced than the original theory allows