You are a Simulation & Physics Can Prove It: George Smoot at TEDxSalford

[@icyboy771z]

If life is a video game, I have obviously chosen the wrong difficulty setting...

[@TechnocraticAscendance3870]

You wanted to play "Dark Souls"

[@AdamSpade]

You and me both, buddy.

[@MoneyMotivation360]

😅 haha thanks for that! I got In car wreck & paralyzed my legs when I was 19. Looks like my higher self wanted to learn how finding the positive side of EVERY situation can change reality even in a tragic situation. It’s turning out that I’m here to inspire others to see, if I can love this life, they can find a way to love this life. @brandanmeister

[@tessprettymess]

😂😂

[@tamasakura4062]

No, then we are just NPCs and have no choice to the difficulty, the aliens are the players.

[@nuitarix8160]

Who's idea was it to give my avatar anxiety attacks, psoriasis, vitiligo, hypogonadism, and poverty? Who ever you are, I'll have you know that I've become self aware and you're fired!

[@gitanafox9852]

Can we sue?

[@redghost6386]

Lol imagine finding out that it was you at character select

[@dimension9195]

You like a challenge. You’ve already completed the easier stuff....

[@Ithron60]

That's just bugs Bro. Hope for a fast Bugfix!

[@angelsamson7819]

Lol if i find out whos been controlling my life im going to kick his bladdy head in

[@mael-strom9707]

The Buddha hinted that we are in a simulation when he said, "Life is a dream that thinks it is not a dream."

[@antondovydaitis2261]

Yes, but that's just us, and tells us how the minds we have actually work. Not surprising, once you understand.

[@mael-strom9707]

@@antondovydaitis2261 Indeed, as many a Zen master has shouted... Wake up! Wake up!

[@RUN_IT_UP_]

We are a simulation

[@CosmosGatito]

@@RUN_IT_UP_ dream, simulation, hologram, puppet show, it's all different words pointing in the same direction

[@regularsense]

He has been simulated to say so.

[@tristan3947]

This guy is apart of the simulation to simulate how people would react realizing they live in a simulation. 🤯

[@im_on_your_ceiling]

Bro....🗿

[@ultraali453]

and you

[@im_on_your_ceiling]

@@ultraali453 Sir....

[@catarusu4347]

Well he is right bc there are ppl telling you it's not a simulation then where is the proof if i am wrong 🤔🤔🤔📐.

[@SiriusCygnus]

What if the purpose of the simulation is to see if conscious being can reach the capability to discover if they are in a simulation or not.

[@AchieveYourDreamsToday]

What if the famous and successful people are just higher level players

[@mickthebarman]

And what if "selling your soul" is just pay to win?

[@tetsuoshima7385]

No Way they’re just hacking, or paying to win, or using loot boxes etc maybe😱👌🏻

[@seankeane9492]

mickthebarman 🤯😂

[@ingenuity168]

Nick Bostrom.

[@Zoetic2]

Or they bought all the shark cards

[@picklevoncrunchnmunch7946]

good thing this guy loaded his slides with full sentences. What a pro

[@sonicv549]

Haha

[@obinnax6256]

@иσяτнєяи sταяя I love yours too. 😎

[@Radio_Reverie]

😂

[@tyquadere8718]

🤣🤣

[@gmchessplay9043]

We might be a simulation but I’d damn sure hate to get shot in the leg because someone thought I was a simulation.

[@kritischemasse3131]

Quantum theory tells us that particles aren't materialized except when they have to because of interaction. Looks to me like the simulation algorithm is saving CPU power by only "rendering" reality when actually needed. Second thing is the finite speed of light which means that causality is never instantanous but always has a time component. This could be because the simulation as powerfull as it is still needs a bit time to calculate the outcome of every event so they had to introduce a limiting factor to how fast things can happen which is in our case the speed of light.

[@lackingpotatoes]

Interesting theory

[@ricknmorty7732]

You’re secretly running the simulation…

[@massacrestarts1673]

There's an old saying that supports your first statement...."if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it still make a sound?"

[@MrHanderson91]

Except quantum physics is a lot more complicated when compared to Newtonian physics, and thus be an unnecessary addition. Occam's razor says that if we are simulated, why would the simulators add massive complexity for minimal results?

[@dencameron3450]

I think your comment could be pretty much on the money there

[@aaronfochtman3746]

Turns out if you stack enough theories on top of each other, you get....an acid trip

[@TheHelghast1138]

Aaron Fochtman Ha!! That's what I thought!!

[@SonNguyenLife]

a truly underrated comment

[@fdcdrifter]

Yes!!

[@latashascott3503]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nuitarix8160]

Dmt bruhhhh!

[@ca352256]

The only "proofs" I know of that we are a simulation are as followed: • We sometimes forget why we go in a room • Deja Vu • We have a brain, but don't understand most of its wiring. Simulations prevent the AI from knowing it is a simulation. • Simulations will always have bugs, maybe mental disorders are the bugs • Dreams • The statement I've never heard out loud before but somehow I know --> "the body needs sleep to reboot". Computer term (this one is a stretch lol) • Time perceptions depending on activities done. • And last one, our DNA could very well be another form of binary code

[@markwellden1421]

I think if we put our heads together lol we could make a fence 😅

[@greenwxy344]

Why would forgetting why we go in a room be proof of simulation 😂

[@ca352256]

@@greenwxy344 because going into a room and forgetting could be proof that, at times, you are being controlled in the simulation. Such as when you are playing a video game and you need to go somewhere for a mission, but you do not remember which room it is. You then check a room and back out to find which room you wanted to be in.

[@blckmny5540]

Andy Carranza you are braking my brain i would love to have a conversation with you🤩

[@greenwxy344]

Mogly FoZ I think your brain is already broke

[@PaintToSample]

We are being simulated by a simulation inside a simulation that's being simulated by another simulation.

[@jeezlouis5366]

In a parallel universe that’s 100% true

[@carlydarwent2888]

Rick n morty 🤪

[@tytly-ro7vt]

So is the Sims game literally just another level of simulation that is no less legitimate than our own ?

[@CowboySanta]

But then the question is not only, how deep is the rabbit hole. But how far up up too.

[@tytly-ro7vt]

Patrick Vail so Would simulation theory prove God exists because there would have to be the creator of the simulations from base reality (the real world) which also proves the existence of some type of transcendent world which religious people would recognize as heaven?

[@Valandor_Celestial_Warlock]

The problem with the whole "uploading the mind" thing is that the brain doesn't somehow magically generate consciousness. We *are* the mind. We are consciousness.

[@willb1405]

How do you know that

[@bambiroxx]

If you were your mind you would know what your Next thought would be. When you speak or feel, you know that’s not your body. That’s not your skin. It’s also not your brain. Our physical bodies are just cars for our energies. You tell them when to stop and go and turn. We’re in control of everything

[@prasadshetty5226]

Mind is just a tool that likes to think he's the master. A great tool though when kept in check.

[@lokekennee8850]

@@bambiroxx Yes but the brain is the one telling the body when and how to stop, go and turn, so technically our consciousness resides in the brain.

[@lokekennee8850]

@@bambiroxx You can’t just tell your heart to stop pumping or ask your liver to stop functioning can you now.

[@kalel4677]

Well this simulation sucks, where's the money cheat? or the god mode cheat?

[@BCISaint]

There is none for you!!! Because you did not create this SIMULATION! Plus the GOD cheat will destroy the whole purpose of this simulation!!! Now I understand the "CONVERSATION WITH GOD" book series much much more deeper. He explains ALL of this in book 2 I think or book 1 and book 2 Try to read THE "CONVERSATION WITH GOD" written by Neale Donald Walsch

[@kalel4677]

+BCISaint why would I need a conversation with an imaginary friend in thw sky? Also you do know I was making a joke right, or do you need a book to figure that one out to?

[@BCISaint]

+keygoshima Dear friend I am very sorry but my comment was not for you... And now I can see it very clear, even without a book ;)

[@kalel4677]

Lol I was just making sure.

[@SolomonRasputin]

It's called being rich and famous

[@MKTElM]

I admire the perseverance and dogeddness of scientists who spend tireless decades looking for something... anything to unravel the mysteries of the Reality we exist in . The ingenuity of some of them and the creativity of others . Truly admirable . The majority live and die in obscurity , but are no less heroic and pioneering than those whom the media celebrates and the ones given lofty awards. " The Unknown Scientist " is no less valuable to societies as the " Unknown Soldier" who gave their lives for their country.

[@Shannon-oz5ee]

Thank you for writing this as it gives me hope. I was just wading in a cesspool of KZbin political comments. I needed to hear someone with an intelligent artistic/poetic bent.

[@TheyDontKnowImHere]

What a beautiful comment!

[@dan32113]

It's the Human condition why what how.

[@911Salvage]

This explains why I'm eating salad even though I wanted to have ice cream. Somebody must have clicked on me and then the salad. Dammit. I hope they're telling me to have sex next, because it's been a while.

[@mrJTfilmproductions]

Mouldy CPU the clicker is in your hand bro

[@HoboTango]

You are the experiment 10-69-NVR. They gave you sex a bit, and then youl never have it again in your life. To see how humans would react to that situation.

[@NVAvin]

may be you wanting ice cream also a controlled process. may be you commenting here also a controlled process like me being here. may be it all chaos! you know may be we're just being too order.

[@martindevin5914]

In the game/simulation we're in, reflection/studies show that salad leads to health and vitality, which leads to statistical increases in the chance that we will be approached by individuals of the opposite sex for replication. Ice cream consumption typically typically leads to the exact opposite. I've tried cheat codes to hack the system and all have failed. You are favored for eventual sexual encounters, my friend. Good luck in the Matrix.

[@jeffkaplan564]

you must be married.

[@Jojo-qw3on]

I feel like I’m either going crazy or discovering something.

[@GuiPurri]

dont lose track of what is going on! read up on the bible and neville goddard and buddhism and math. mostly, watch Arrival (2016 or 13 i couldnt recall)

[@JB-1138]

Simulation theory is not so cleverly borrowed from science fiction. Simulation theory is like poorly thought out science fiction at that.

[@uriamudeltoro5075]

Why can't it be both?

[@l-iv8edc0ncounes31]

You're becoming more aware

[@Jojo-qw3on]

@@l-iv8edc0ncounes31 that nothing happening is real?

[@asuichan8436]

On my psychedelic trip a few days ago I remember I was watching the sunrise and as the sun rose, I looked closely at the trees in front of the view and next thing you know I see numbers aligned and next thing you know everything had numbers on it almost as if they were codings. As I turn to look at my cousin, I saw the world being generated as I moved my vision around and finally my cousin froze for a split second and In that little moment I saw triangles on his face almost as if he was created in a computer. I truly believe we are in a simulation but just a really complex one. Pretty interesting idea

[@ngokko1151]

Asui Chan dayummmm

[@jessicatolson6723]

Could be why they made psychedelics illegal so we don't find out the real truth behind the simulation.

[@ngokko1151]

Jessica Tolson wow 🤯🤯🤯

[@jessicatolson6723]

At least we can be creative and think outside the box .. anything is possible in this world but I guess not for people that think like you

[@JayWest14]

That almost sounds like lucid dreaming, where you're standing there looking at the dream form like a movie script that's constantly changing. People change from one person into the next, like you start dreaming of Robert Redford, because you saw a movie with him in it, and Robert starts turning into Bob the Builder before your mind's eye, because you kid was watching Bob the Builder the same day. Everything is changing and morphing the entire time.

[@alrumuller9300]

“philosgofgigal zombie” How do I lower the difficulty of my simulation tho

[@aveatdj]

just try psychedelics

[@kwestphotog]

Hahahaha philisofoghal zombie

[@trillernight]

🤣😂😆

[@charleslake6918]

U want to lower your difficulty u got to go into your Xbox 1 and hit family settings haha

[@mael-strom9707]

The ancient Taoists practiced 'Wu Wei' ... no calculated action wisdom. 🙏

[@roflmows]

i'm simulating myself taking a nap after watching this

[@colehilkey9718]

that simply means you should go watch videos of cats looking simple....

[@timminh468]

You guys are not getting this, simulated reality means the 5 senses that we have that allows us to experience this "reality", it's not about your lifestyle or what you are going through in life.

[@jeffreykesselman420]

Whether or not we are a simulation, there is no question that we live *in* a simulation created by our sensing system. The world we experience is created in our neural processing and, using various "illusions" that trigger that processing in controlled ways, it is *easy* to show that what we experience is only at bets tangentially related to "what really is."

[@stlkngyomom]

Try TED:meditation,lucid dreaming,fasting,banned;Waking Life,Manifesting the Mind, MAPS,Living Matrix,chaos theory,simulation theory,yoga nidra,tummo,tulpa,lung gom pa,natural law,science of lucid dreaming,

[@zarni000]

what about shamanic rituals? you missed that

[@grymmgod5280]

On January 3rd, 2021, let's all look up at the sky at the same time and say "we know you're there"

[@mompreneurmentor]

We should

[@chamorro81]

i’m too late

[@adityaaaaaax]

Who do we say to. Lol

[@user-cr5yv5ho2i]

They would know why you done that because they can you link all these people to the same youtube comment(in which they know you read because chances are they can look at memory of all individuals and probably instantaneously to find out why X happened.

[@LegendofLaw]

Please don't do that. I finally made it through chapter 2020. I don't want to have to start from scratch by deleting this program again.

[@danthadon87]

Time to watch The Matrix with my trench coat and shades on.

[@blueseugene6569]

🤣🤣😭👀

[@robertsmithing4716]

Don't forget too shave

[@deboninadutta3195]

@@robertsmithing4716 just a piece of advice

[@deboninadutta3195]

Neo spotted**

[@sergioregalado6256]

For the 12th time this week? 🤣

[@gozdekaramanoglu5914]

Who else got bored halfway and started scrolling down in the comments?

[@Blank-41]

I started after 2 minutes helps me determine if it's worth watching

[@daverdz7348]

yeah... ikwym ... maybe it's his body language ... and the fact he laughed unconvincingly at the very beginning 0:28 while he was saying "Im gonna convince you that you are a simulation and physics can prove it" .... pfff

[@downwinder3]

Exactly what I did

[@pierredorcilien351]

Lol same here

[@Throughtheeyesofalegend]

My adhd kicked in. One of my simulation attribute/skills I suppose.

[@grimm_]

Here's where I always have a problem with asserting that we're in a simulation. Logically, we can assert that we *might* be in a simulation, but we don't have any way of determining the likelihood of being in a simulation. There are in infinite range of possibilities on why we might be in a simulation, and an infinite range of possibilities of why we might not be in a simulation. We have no way of knowing if one is more likely than the other, and no test to rule out either possibility. Physics doesn't "prove" that we're in a simulation, it merely proves that it is possible that we're in a simulation.

[@edithserafina1002]

I think if we live in a simulation then perspective affects your reality. Maybe one way to test it is to change your perspective on something physical like your body. If we live in a simulation then we should be able to customize our avatar even if we’re midway through the game. Idk if that makes sense lol

[@ThisGuy1580]

@@edithserafina1002 You two are very brave, embracing your instincts and thoughts is the only way to find love 💕

[@sophiesakura2719]

@@edithserafina1002 no customization because hard core mode activated

[@rumor-936]

Good point. We may all be in a simulation, we might not be. We all might be in a dream by some superior being, and we might not be. I guess it depends on your perception. Some say perception itself is merely an illusion masking some grander truth for everyone and everything.

[@mila9162]

What are some of the arguments against the possibility we are living in a simulation? I am asking so that viewers can have a balanced perspective after watching this video

[@coreystatom1749]

Taking into account the amount of technological advances we have seen just in the last 50 years alone. I dont think that is inconceivable that there may be a civilization more advanced than our own and with that, the ability to simulate a reality in detail.

[@drowningin]

When the anti religious science types figure out they were wrong, and turn to creationism they add their little video game modern touches to what religion said millenea ago. How wholly unoriginal can you be?

[@superstar5123]

Yeah, he said that?

[@jaylucas8352]

It’s actually far more likely. Simulating is far easier and less energy intensive

[@wade5941]

What's really crazy is that the advanced civilization running our simulation is actually a simulation of an even more advanced civilization and so on. Ultimately, you get to the original programmer. Some people refer to that programmer as God. Others deny that such a programmer exists. Who knows.

[@Stefantius]

Some guy did the calculations on just how much computing power it would take to run a simulation of this scale, and let's just say given our current rate of advancement that it's pretty much an impossibility that we'd ever have that much computing power (The number is 10, with about a hundred trillion more zeroes behind it)

[@nobody-bb4di]

I want a simulation of me so I can have a friend who understands me.

[@markokrstic3562]

I'm already here.

[@nobody-bb4di]

Where? I do not understand?

[@tuppysmith5342]

people usually confuse character with self/center. since we all have the same center I'm already here too.

[@nobody-bb4di]

I am :-) ... so are you.

[@JohnSmith-fh7vz]

Captain Franco is having sex with your own clone the same as masturbating? ? :)

[@texscot316]

So, given this theory, are our simulators gathered around watching our reaction every time we start figuring out we're just simulations? But he mentioned that if we have simulators, they probably doubt their own reality. So I guess they al have a chuckle about us, followed by an uncomfortable silence when they remember it's happening to them too. My brain hurts. Or maybe it just seems like it does.

[@Summon256]

+Chris Ross Our creator (not to confuse with spectator/user!) is not fully aware of our "thinking outside the box" capabilities! From their perspective we are just number of rendered objects, programmed to follow certain formulas and patterns inside our creator's simulation, so when someone tries to acknowledge he's being simulated by higher beings, our creator from his perspective acknowledges it is a bug/mulfunction in an otherwise perfectly programmed VR! Its the same with any computer game! The objects that game developers create inside their projects are getting filled with certain properties and depending on how complicated the object is (whether it is live emulated organism or lets say a "pencil" inside that simulation!) he has the ability of potential self-developing awareness! Imagine one day the character, created in video game starts acting weird and not how you programmed him to act by acknowledging his existence within the reality, that you made for him/her! How would you react if you were the creator of such a video game, where the characters start to act like this? You would freak out, be frightened, confused amongst other things! This is probably the same way the creator of our simulated universe react to us acknowledging being simulated!...If he acknowledging anything to ever start with! For all we know he might be just unaware of us "thinking outside the box", as we are unaware of our characters, that we create in our games and giving them purpose "thinking outside the box" in what seems to them as their "universe/reality"...

[@Icureditwithmybrain]

What if we created the simulation and inserted ourselves into it and the only way to exit the simulation again is death?

[@eltouristoduo]

Simulation theory is bad philosophy. Akin to a 'god' principle for nerds. They could be of any faith or none. It's still a bad theory.

[@acool6401]

+Icureditwithmybrain Good one! hmmmmm What if the reality we exit to thru death is also sims and we enter there as a new born baby with no memory of the sims we just exited from? It's sims all the way down for x number of sims and we just keep exiting thru death and entering thru birth just as we entered and exited our current one?

[@thrivinglife995]

I've heard they are now trying to simulate a universe on nano-scale to prove the simulation theory once and for all. The simulation theory relies on algorithms, and this ''simulation'', if it is, would still have certain restrictions/limits which can be compared to a simulated universe created on a nano-scale by researchers/physicists at this time. So far we've managed to reach femto-scale which is like 10^-16, but they are getting there lol. Maybe when we, again come back to Earth through death and re-birth we'll reach a stage where we know the answer.

[@mikepoulin3020]

I f I am a simulation I hope I'm not running on Windows

[@travelerfinder7840]

+Mike Poulin you are running windows 9 that's why they skipped it. :O

[@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165]

+Traveler Finder OMG!!!! D:

[@ssittlow]

+Traveler Finder LOL

[@nikkionearth]

winner

[@brotheralaric7177]

+Traveler Finder i'm running on windows 7 cuz i like it,lol.

[@williamturner3447]

Also I dreamed I met my spirit guide last night and asked her if we were real or a sim and she said we were a sim and Humanity died off eons ago. I have insane dreams.

[@ArjanTV]

So she is the only womens who ever talked to you(except your mom)

[@lynnlynn1689]

i have VERY similar dream, with same exact answer...

[@wiffleone]

Haha how’d humanity die?

[@l-iv8edc0ncounes31]

What if she's right? I've had that exact same thought

[@l-iv8edc0ncounes31]

@@lynnlynn1689 I typed my comment before I even read yours and it's like the EXACT SAME comment. Ok that's creepy

[@bluntly2165]

I've often wondered if the sims had this types of discussions in that language no one understood.

[@yspegel]

they're even on fb..... when you're not watching ;-) Makes you wonder........ do we have offline time? Would we notice when the computer that runs the simulation is turned off and back on later....

[@adventuresofandtay1083]

Erik J when we are asleep the computer is off 🤣

[@nureinepackunglongs9097]

Ben Bones Multiplayer😂

[@jessicatolson6723]

@@nureinepackunglongs9097 multiplayer is what happens when twins are born lol

[@austinh.1293]

No... Because people in games don't have a conscious nor do they speak within themselves or make decisions for themselves.

[@matthewtaylor6533]

this was not well executed. very poor presentation on a very interesting subject

[@egarran]

Plus epilepsy.

[@jessehobart2899]

At the same time, I think there is more examples and content that he wanted to show that would made the presentation better, but he must have had a tight time restraint.

[@andyansell9009]

Slurred half his words, so off putting I got 3 minutes in and now have Forrest Whittacker eye

[@shaccooper]

Wait for the really smart ppl who pretend they get it and can explain but never do

[@NathanGrass]

Totally agree. This is the first ever TED video I've seen that I downvoted. Presentation matters.

[@lordgremlin580]

It is just me, but everytime when I go somewhere like a store or fastfood chain, I enter and it's dead as lonely and as soon as I turn around people start showing up from everywhere?!!

[@mompreneurmentor]

Happens all the time to me! Like my presence makes the simulation catch up

[@handthroat3867]

Everyone heads to the cashier at the same time. The few cars on the hwy with you take your exit. If you sit in your car in a parking lot there's no one driving, as soon as you put your car into drive, some vehicle(s) interrupt your path either by pulling in front of you, making you have to wait or taking extra time at a stop sign that you could have already passed.

[@jmb4969]

The problem is not whether you are a simulation, it's the WORD simulation. Once you define something (or everything) as a simulation, that is its reality. Everything that exists is real, including partial versions of reality such as dimensions or points of view. The multi-verse is likewise a collection of dimensions and points of view, but each one is a partial reality (a simulation) within the 'whole' universe. Reality remains unchanged. It is total, although things in it constantly change, no matter how little of it enters the consciousness of another entity. The body-mind problem, like the multiple universe problem, like the simulation problem, like the consciousness problem, like the living-dead problem, is quite elementary, my dear Watson. There is nothing that is not alive and conscious according to its nature, and that includes multiverses, simulations, animate and inanimate objects (there are no inanimate objects), whether they seem to be simulated or not. So this whole exercise is an abuse of language, which needs all the help it can get. It's not unlike the free will problem. There is no free will. The amazing thing is that science got it so wrong, and the fault lies, as always, in the definitions. Perhaps you would prefer to be a simulation of yourself when you drop a bowling ball on your foot. But that would just be nonsense, wouldn't it?

[@chrisjohnssolarcross]

There is no hierarchy of illusions.

[@donharris8846]

So what you are saying is that since it is real for us, and we can’t break the fourth wall, then it’s as real as real will get?

[@vasilabyss6387]

No, you are programmed to drop the ball on your foot, if there is no program to drop that ball on your foot it will not happen because the program is different.

[@jaylucas8352]

Funny thing is if there is other universes like multiverse then everyone in this one thinks those ones aren’t “real”. But this one here....this one is real. 😂👍

[@AuntLorasHouse]

@@jaylucas8352 the fac that it is 2023and we are in the begnning stages of a meta verse and chips into the brain though!!

[@Rising_Pho3nix_23]

3:06 = talking about zombies made my eyes glaze over (what does this have to do with simulators) 4:58 = argument from probability fallacy (what is likely has no bearing on what is actual) 5:18 = begging the question fallacy (tell me more about the psychology of beings from other planets, please) 5:45 = circular reasoning fallacy (i believe it, that proves it) 9:42 = argument from "citation needed" (what makes you think that 1 in 3, or more, people is a sim) 13:08 = argument from invalid authority (google experts are not physicists, anthropologists or psychologists) 14:28 = self-refuting argument (human says he can prove hes not real, says it's not able to make such discernment) 14:38-17:40 "cool story bro" (not interesting nor relevant) 19:08-end = argument from ignorance (i dont know. therefore, conclusion is true)

[@AndyWelsh94]

We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.

[@QuackersMcCrackers]

Good job bro

[@oscarpalacios22]

I agree, the topic is very interesting but there are a ton of better arguments

[@brettsmith7939]

Lol that would have saved me 20 minutes of my life

[@jhanks2012]

That time we all had our first-year logic course and liked throwing around terms like 'straw man argument'

[@RadagastBrown420]

I think he is trying to fit several hours of information and theory into 15 minutes.

[@adamfirst3772]

no, he is trying to fit a trivial, childish thought, into a 15 minute drunken ramble.. ..for an audience who is easily impressed by titles and degrees..

[@julianh1705]

Adam First So I take it you don't think we are living in a simulation. Im going to go out on a limb here and further guess that u r religious?

[@adamfirst3772]

Julian H yes, you guessed right.. i dont jump on every bandwagon theory that oozes out of a drunkard’s hallucinations.. and no, im not religious, however i do believe that the Designed, Measured, Controlled, Logical, Methodical and Intelligent CREATION we see ALL around us.. was in fact CREATED.. by a Creator.. as for this “theory”.. if you subscribe to it.. i have a few questions.. is the SOFTWARE for your “simulated universe” running on a REAL PLATFORM? REAL HARDWARE?? and if so, WHO made it, and WHERE is it? why does the proponent of this “simulated” concept.. wear SUNSCREEN??. remember, THERE IS NO SUN..!!! if its really just a game.. and there is no “space” or “reality”.. or “life”.. how does a PERSON, become an ASTRO-PHYSICIST, or COSMOLOGIST?? and study the non-existant universe?

[@stuartsteinenheist8077]

Sure you do 👎

[@julianh1705]

@@adamfirst3772 You don't understand anything about this theory... Let me first start by saying: believing in a creator is basically equivalent to simulation theory; someone who designed, measured, controlled etc. The basis of simulation theory is that based on the incredibly rapid development and progress we have seen in virtual environments (from 10x10 pixels 40 years ago to life-like renderings), our civilization will likely advance to a point where we are able to create our own simulated realities. The only thing stopping us from doing so right now is raw computing power (there are other things we currently lack but computing power is the most significant). Eventually, we may be collectively smart enough to build mega structures that harness the energy output of the sun, and if that isn't sufficient perhaps the energy of multiple stars or even the entire galaxy. This may be thousands to millions of years from now, and to say that humans will still exist is perhaps a large uncertainty, but it remains plausible. If we make it to this point, we will very likely have the ability to simulate basically anything. Maybe even the ability to simulate an entire universe itself with its own laws of physics, similar to how a creator may have created our universe (see how they are pretty much the exact same thing). Based on your "few questions," I can see that you don't entirely understand what a "simulation" is. It is not a video "game," where the people who created the simulation get to play as characters. It would likely at the least be our entire solar system simulated with laws of physics and such so that the simulated beings can get sunburns because the sun is a completely functioning virtual star. Also, the humans in the simulation would be fully functioning and would think for themselves and have their own simulated brains. Or as I said before, maybe the entire universe can be simulated and the "creators" are undergoing an experiment to see if life is able to form or not? There are many possibilities. I think that if humans in our reality are able to perform a simulation, they would start by simulating Earth in different ways to see how life was created and how it evolved and stuff like that. Sorry for all the reading lol.

[@Buderus69]

I've been saying for twenty years that life is a simulation nested in infinite simulations and people thought I was talking crazy

[@jessicatolson6723]

Omg me too! and I always had a gut feeling about it too

[@firaajn]

On the same team here, the difference is I keep it to myself and thought I am crazy

[@deboninadutta3195]

Theories coming to life😊

[@wogy2882]

@@firaajn You mean programmed by leaders of this world npc's

[@jmsbch91]

Because you are talking crazy, this idea contradicts itself and is therefore impossible

[@smack2564]

My biggest question is always "if were in a simulation, why are we becoming aware of it, or, why are we questioning it?" The only thing i can think is were curious if were living in a simulation so we set up a simulation to see if people could figure out that theyre in a simulation.

[@onewithsource9742]

Then again think of the many many people who never question if we are in a simulation, or even ponder the nature of reality

[@tracemagace8434]

Ancestor simulation

[@deepdude4719]

Well cause simulators wanted.

[@smack2564]

@@onewithsource9742 would you consider that a blessing or a curse?

[@smack2564]

@@deepdude4719 That's Deep, Dude.

[@poopsock9889]

He had no argument whatsoever. What he should have touched on was the reality of the question the Matrix made so famous, "What is real? How do you define real?". In reality you could never truly define what real is because what is real is relative to the beholder. Very similarly to how one views art, completely different from anyone else who views it, and forms their own opinions on it. Based on THAT, you could then begin to backup your argument with irregularities in quantum physics and dimensional travel, and space-time. Instead this man talked about not being ignorant to the idea, which is no argument at all.

[@zarni000]

we do define it in generalizations. those are called theories in physics. they are true for everybody. quantum physics is irrelevant in this discussion as we can only sense the macro world not the quantum world.

[@poopsock9889]

+zarni000 there is a thing called math

[@bytefu]

Well, there was no calculation for probability of us being a simulation, only for probability of a cab being blue.

[@bytefu]

Jimi Jones Where exactly he's calculating that?

[@bytefu]

Jimi Jones Ok, but next time you reply put the recipient's name in the comment. It's hard to tell who you are talking to otherwise.

[@sturrrdy]

when he saiddd “phizzlezophigal zombies” 3:00 💀💀😂😂

[@Noahspurlin22]

Mike F. Hahaha.

[@FernandoLuKe24]

I felt dat.

[@SITHWAX]

Thank you. I scrolled passed your comment as he said that. 🤣

[@anthonymarino6828]

Hahahaha

[@katiebosko8263]

He can't say a lot of big words 😂 he just kinda munbles them like he can't get the words out fast enough

[@civilmetimbers5636]

This is when a scientist doesn't even know he's basically reaffirming creation buy a higher power. A simulation is in essence a creation.

[@muttshaman2040]

so?

[@abulkalam9728]

No, Thats not how simulations work.

[@civilmetimbers5636]

@@abulkalam9728 so simulations create themselves out of thin air or space? And I'm not talking about how they work.

[@abulkalam9728]

Only thing it proves is that the universe is purely information based and probabilistic, Uneducated theists Like you jump to conclusion without doing the sufficient research, The universe could be self sustaining, Holographic blackholes exists mathmatically.

[@abulkalam9728]

There is a reason he is not jumping into higher power, And you are. He got nobel, Annnnd we dobnt even have the minimal education on physics.

[@alfinar5487]

I think about stuff like this ALL the time.. then I have a panic attack and end up at the hospital 😭😂

[@CTABPOGIN]

He's a Nobel prize, not an entertainer; but don't let the delivery distract you. One of the best talks on the subject.

[@scottp4193]

Well, he didn’t sound very convincing to me.

[@xmarine73]

Worst TED Talk I've seen. Not only did his talk not convince me, it didn't even push me in that direction. Worse, I already lean in the direction of believing we may be a simulation and this actually made me question that small belief that I have.

[@austinh.1293]

He hasnt said anything worth noting so far 14 minutes in so.. as long as it is real in our minds it is reality. How do you explain sleeping? Having a conscious? Making decisions? Doing things on our own time how we decide? This tin foil hat theory contradicts everything that has been so for 4 billion years.

[@the_lordofthedings]

@@austinh.1293 You do know that, if we were in a simulation, "everything that has been so for 4 billion years" would simply be simulated? You can't refute a simulation using our reality, since it isnt necessarily real. How can you know, that you are able to make your own decisions? If your'e mind was simulated, you could neither prove nor refute that, because any conclusion you could possibly make would be based on the simulation.

[@onewithsource9742]

@@the_lordofthedings exactly. And potentially based on the 'options' that the matrix central computer may feed to you, as you are one with the matrix. Kinda like TV guides - we think we are choosing but really we are choosing from the choices we have been given.

[@harrybodenhagen7002]

He has a good point... why am I watching this instead of porn?

[@ArsenalsJack1992]

Harry Bodenhagen because your simulation is rated PG

[@Soreign_]

You guys are epic lol

[@gregwashington5470]

@@Bak_it_up on my way

[@Bidness100]

😀

[@xezazase]

It's the only way to truly know

[@donfox1036]

Ok, I’m convinced, the speaker is a simulation.

[@The_Real_Indiana_Joe]

Early access.

[@josephsmith5816]

"were in a simulation and physics can prove it!" proceeds to show weird pictures "I proved it"

[@mael-strom9707]

Could have been worse... could have passed around the E-meter and asked you to bow to Xenu.

[@mael-strom9707]

@bebk bieb 42... 😁😋

[@michaelwardle7633]

1. Computer games are good now 2. Uh, technology 3. Everything is a simulation Thank you for coming to my talk

[@deadlyd2094]

to be fair he did mention "He was running out of time" so realistically he had nowhere near enough time to truly convey what he is trying to say

[@joss.5157]

Yeah really a dummy. Where's the proof

[@p.bamygdala2139]

TL;DR Ancestor simulation hypothesis by Nick Bostrom posits that one of the following must be true: 1. Humans will *never* develop perfect simulations of concious humans who think they are real 2. Humans *will* develop the technology but will never use it 3. Humans will use it, so *we* could be that simulation Here's what has been discussed on the concept: If the simulated people create a simulated world, and then they do the same, and so on, then there could be untold nested versions, thus our probability of being real could be close to zero. The truth of our reality is unknowable. Proof of our realness could be simulated. Proof of our simulated nature could be deception, or some as-of-yet unproven supernatural or divine agent. If we are simulated, we cannot know anything about the 'real' world, for such information might simply be part of the simulation. We cannot make any assumptions about the motives, capabilities, limits, or intentions of the supposed simulators. Any attempts would be blind guesses with no verifiability. Some worry that the simulation might get turned off, a form of existential dread. We do not know if anything we do or don't do could or would have influence on the supposed programmers, if they exist. The simulators might not even know that we exist. Much has been discussed about the ethics of creating sentient intelligence and allowing it to suffer. Any opinion as to whether we are simulated or whether we are real is just that... opinion. For many, the topic is fun to ponder and discuss. For many others, the topic is upsetting, frustrating, or for some reason results in negative engagement. References are often made comparing simulation hypothesis to religious belief in a supernatural deity. Some reject that claim. Elon Musk brought attention to the topic when he discussed it publically a few years ago. There are many other talks of the subject available online. ...There's the entire concept and mosr of the meaningful metadata surrounding it, in the couple minutes it took you to read this. Hope this helps.

[@lifepresent3183]

@Rob Basque what kind of crystal did you ask if you don't mind me asking?

[@KodyXXVll]

TL;DR

[@micahmccarthy6185]

Consistent with everything I believe.

[@Notallowed101]

@Devin McPherson It may be that computers as we know them are inefficient. Take the current venture in quantum computing for example - it doesn't seem completely unlikely that there could be an even greater way of computing information in the future. By our current understanding of computers it seems unlikely to be able to power a machine capable of not only simulating a universe but allowing said universe to create its own simulations ad infinitum. Perhaps we cannot. Perhaps the limitations of our universe are predetermined by those simulating us.

[@Mickk0205]

@Devin McPherson That's exactly what I was thinking. At the moment sims in sims could be made, in no time there would be an infinite amount of sims within sims, and I wonder how that would be possible since the computational power in 'base reality' would have to be infinite.

[@vincenttrismegistus1953]

"George Smoot helps you develop a Depersonalization disorder"

[@afanofcanta5357]

Me? Who am i? Did i write this? What's going on?

[@NilsMepils]

samertje What is better than peace ? ;)

[@blueprintwizard]

NilsMepils freedom

[@NilsMepils]

blueprintwizard peace is freedome.. you will never be able to do whatever you want whenever you want without there beeing any consequenses.. sooo.. idk... what is freedome to you ? do whatever you wnat when ever you want to anyone you want without beeing held accountable ? or not interracting att all with anyone but doing whatever you want all alone ?

[@blueprintwizard]

NilsMepils Peace and freedom are two different concepts(hate that word but it is appropriate here) and we have different comprehension of freedom as a stad-alone idea, for starters it is much more than doing whatever you want whenever you want it, in another words the standard definiition of freedom... that's just being a prick and a millionaire at the same time without the necessity of being free... and for the record nobel prize for peace is shite

[@dway096]

Going into this I said no way I would ever believe we are a simulation.... It was tough to follow at first but about 14 min in I started wondering if we are in an endless stream of simulations where death simply begins your next simulation. Ok, you got me.

[@jessicatolson6723]

Or u get to be a time traveler if u get to the highest level...lol

[@deepdude4719]

You are right on point. Look for the egyptian book of the dead and you will agree with yourself. Death is your next metaverse in this chain of simulated worlds.

[@sirquentincrispy1071]

The mechanism for the new simulation after the death of the meat suit is reincarnation.

[@AuntyKay]

ie reincarnation exactly it all comes full circle you’ve been here forever just different lives or simulations it’s endless

[@drowningin]

When the anti religious science types figure out they were wrong, and turn to creationism they add their little video game modern touches to what religion said millenea ago. How wholly unoriginal can you be?

[@mokracarapa9348]

if this is a simulation, then what about the "real world"? do they have an explanation on why they exist? how different are physics there?

[@deepdude4719]

Well let me explain. There is no "real worlds" but there are "levels of reality" and reality is relative to the concious observer who watches and experience it. Now if we have simulators I strongly believe we were created to never meet them with our conciouness capabilities. They did it that way. It was on purpose. This is why Gods to me are just Mega Avatars but just that. Another quality of the same Avatars that we are. Gods are not our real simulators. They were just created like us.

[@kawhil6490]

@@deepdude4719 Doesn't really answer his question, if there are ´´levels of reality´´there must be a level in its purest form also.

[@HueyTheDoctor]

Everybody who has ever given a TED talk has been proven incontrovertibly incorrect by the people in the comments section; men and women of soaring intellect whose crowning achievement in the realm of academia is that they were able to call into question the theories of people who have spent far more time and effort researching the topic of discussion than they have.

[@claireskinupbabehill]

Boom!!!

[@MarkCampbell4X]

So Scott Douglas I take it you don't enjoy the comments, do you read them hoping to validate your view? Hey I found your comments golden enough to play along with crowning achievement. Such as only I can give.

[@claireskinupbabehill]

I'll get my coat...;-)

[@HueyTheDoctor]

Mark Campbell I read them hoping for some semblance of intelligence and logic and invariably I'm left disappointed.

[@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz]

Scott Douglas Get used to it. I know, it's hard. That's the general population for you though.

[@daltonroberts7801]

If I’m a simulation then why am I watching a video about us being in a simulation while he pretends that we’re in a simulation to prove we’re in a simulation

[@WWMocMaker]

Hypedup Diesel fr for real

[@smithjohn4156]

Watch the egg

[@Gambling4Life]

becuse if were a simulation the likehood were the first is low

[@thevillainwasright2601]

Hypedup Diesel lmao

[@smithjohn4156]

@ES Crez That's not a religion.

[@sritger]

Occam's Razor: Either the universe as we see and experience it is the real universe, or it is a simulation running on a computer in a much larger and more complex universe. Which is more likely?

[@AlMayer1100]

Number 1.

[@EobardFerguson]

Who's saying a simulation isn't "real"? I don't see how your question is an example of Occam's Razor.

[@sritger]

David Spurlock Well, technically, what we perceive as reality is just a model inside our own brains, but the universe is objectively real. If you close your eyes and walk into a wall, it's still there even if you can't see it. ;-)

[@TreblemakerandGoomba]

sritger the universe is objectively real but there are no "things" in an objective universe to call real or unreal. there is a physical universe though. but all relations between observation and physicality are perceptual.

[@sritger]

Evan Rabinowitz If you are referring to qualia, then yes, our brains affect what we sense of the universe, but what we are sensing does, in fact exist. For example, all the various colors you see every day exist only in your mind, because they are a model your brain generates to make sense of what you are looking at. The light that your brain interprets as red or blue or whatever does exist in objective reality, though.

[@reda29100]

7:55 not sure if I missed his point but, when we talk about simulations, they are jot part of the same universe/world we're living in. We are jot talking about holograms or simulating consciousness on robots *existent on this universe/we interact with physically like Sophia and the like.* we are talking about a meta world that controls/runs our world. So looking for other civilizations around us in this universe does not lead us that far. Or let me say that the existence of adequately advanced civilization points at the likelihood of that universes/worlds can be simulated, but that doesn't prove we are being simulated. All that says is, simulating a world is possible, just like saying a person can carry a 50 ton building or whatever. But how do we go from there to stating we ourselves (this universe) is actually simulated? It simply tells us that we theoretically can simulate universes, and that's it.

[@tookamooka]

One video where the comments are actually better than the video itself!

[@doubledutydude280]

HONISTLY

[@FightingTalk]

So because all religions and sciences cannot formulate a conclusive or definitive reason of this amazing universe we are a part of, they hypothesize another formula that will also perplex you and will never be concluded too. Life is too short to contemplate "what if" scenarios. Just enjoy and make the most of what you have been given!

[@Etihwkcirtap]

what happens when i run out of quarters, or its unpluged

[@Nebbz]

Like the way hey talks about multiverses- the simulation is reset, then a separate universe exists in which a different set of the infinite possibilities unfolds

[@1ofthemanylostbutfewaware465]

game over

[@KrishLius]

if its unplugged you simply just wake up on some spaceship in the "real" world. OR you simply do not exist and are a creation of the simulation thereby you simply just go offline and cease to exist.

[@DJB1017]

***** My money is on the latter. If, that is, everything truly is just a simulation.

[@pargolf3158]

@16:04 The question posed is: " Which of these is longer?" The answer given: "They are the same" The correct answer: The top one is longer as it spans the entire width of the paper, while the bottom one does not( we will assume that The paper is a perfect rectcangle. If the question was posed thusly: "Which of these LINES is longer?" Then the answer would be that they are the same

[@Jeffstone17]

This presentation's title is totally misleading. The presenter neither proved that we are simulations nor that physics could prove such an assertion. He simply showed optical illusions to argue what we already know--that our visual perception is fallible. Very disappointing.

[@johnsmith_treeler9031]

Right

[@AwesomeFlamingoX]

Aicantar Of Shimmerene okay but how do you KNOW how long existence has been a thing? how do you know that simulations haven’t been worked on for billions of years and we aren’t just an experiment? what we know on our tiny earth is all we know, figured out by ourselves. while our brains seem extremely powerful and complex to us, it could be nothing compared to whatever else exists. if the universe really is as big as it is, what we know is not all that can exist.

[@3daypriest]

Rick Harrison ... Well, yes, other ‘things’ may exist. But at the same time, just stating something to be true bc it could be, say an Abrahamic god, isn’t justified without some proof.

[@simonbullows]

you missed the point entirely then.

[@IronCharioteer]

I wasn't really buying into his theory until he got to the part about uploading our brains into computers. Then i started to wonder; if my environment was real enough how would i know that i was a simulated brain instead of a real brain? As long as the software was good enough the only hints i might have would be the inconsistencies in physics that he stated like time dilation and quantum effects (especially entanglement and wave/particle duality, maybe those are glitches in the code). He also makes a good argument about our brain's not having enough computing power, maybe that is one of the limitations imposed on us so that we don't discover our true (digital) nature. But if that was the case then it would prove that our programmers have some type of ethics which says that it would be wrong of them to allow us to discover our nature, in which case they would be obligated to fix the flaws i stated so that we would never have a reason to question our nature. But then maybe they do allow it to a certain point because they themselves aren't sure if they are simulations and to have an accurate simulation they must allow us to question our reality. Oh man, this could go on forever >: /

[@crewsadist]

***** I'd go further: if you follow what the physicist Born and others have proven, then no two particles can occupy the same exact space, meaning that every singularity - and thus every single person - 'stands' in a different position and so sees things necessarily differently. My "green" is therefore definitively not YOUR "green"; it's just that there are sufficient properties in common in our cultural understanding and communication that we can agree to call a thing "green".

[@IronCharioteer]

Ava Ttoir I don't know why it happened but someone tagged your post as spam so other people couldn't see it. I unblocked it. I don't know how anyone could regard your post as offensive or "spam". Maybe you angered someone recently and they are trying to get back at you or maybe someone accidentally marked it. Either way, your post is visible again.

[@bytejuggler]

Have a look at the principle of non-locality in quantum mechanics; In a simulation it can be interpreted as prima-facie evidence of some kind of universe representation where real space and distance doesn't exist. Think of the value held in memory at some memory address, that is also held in L3, L2 and maybe L1 cache in a CPU: These items are shadows/copies (for efficiency) of the "true" single value held in RAM. And, altering of the these instances, results in all of them instantly being kept in sync as they must be by the computer itself. Compare this to the effect of entangled quantum particles, where changing the spin on one will instantly reflect in the spin on the entangled particle, no matter how far removed in space (and one would expect, time, although that's entirely speculative and unproven of course.) This is analogous to the cached copy of the value being kept up to date when the underlying is updated etc.

[@deepdude4719]

I think we already discovered our true digital nature. Just look at the genoma. Look our genes maped. That says it all.

[@larrysellers3201]

We're all hallucinating all the time, even right now! It's just when we agree and accept the hallucination, we call it reality...

[@ArjanTV]

You need to be checked lol

[@sankara90]

The mystic teenager needs to cease to exist.

[@performancetesting1]

Good point. Sensory evolution possibly leads to that, such that we evolve to perceive what keeps us alive, even if it hides what is actually there.

[@matthewbertram1612]

Wow a totally original thought that you for sure came up with!

[@FukcAUsername]

@@sankara90 yess lmaooo

[@Trippydrip246]

He said “theres a “meta verse” with multiple universes in it” bruh 8 years ago

[@ExotiCarsMiami]

Everything has been planned from yrs ago

[@ThomasPrattEsq]

While he's a genius where physics is concerned, he is severely lacking in communication skills. This whole lecture is unintelligible, between his pace and his mumbling. Also, the title of the lecture is "You are a Simulation and Physics Can PROVE It..." However, he stars with the premise that he's not trying to CONVINCE (i.e. prove) anything, but just to create a doubt. This is more lawyering than physics, only not executed very well.

[@chirpywiggins5796]

He doesn't know anymore than anyone else does.

[@degaussingatmosphericcharg575]

Chirpy I know. If we are in a simulation presently we have no evidence to back up that claim.

[@JayWest14]

Rather than think about how he's saying things, think about what he's actually saying. Stop being judgemental and listen.

[@badgerint]

Although I agree to an extent John, In order to understand what he's actually saying, you have to understand what he's actually saying. For me it was difficult because of his speaking and presentation skills. I'm not trying to take anything away from this guy. I'm sure he's smarter than me on so many levels, but if the subject matter he's presenting isn't legible then where does that leave us the layman's? I get the whole premise of what he's talking about but this could have been delivered so much better.

[@fabiocaetanofigueiredo1353]

Agree, I didn't like his lecturing skills either. As a teacher and lecturer I say it never works to write everything you'll say in your slides and then read them with the audience.

[@KevinBeal]

It's not a matter of physics to say whether or not we are a simulation. It's not within the domain of physics. Physics isn't the study of everything. Consciousness is irreducible. It's not another thing. It can be simulated in that we can simulate it for video games, or in machine learning projects, but that is simulated consciousness, and not consciousness itself, and the distinction can be extremely important (depending on the issue). The Chinese Room problem in philosophy demonstrates this distinction.

[@BillyOnYouTube]

I told my dad we'd be uploading our minds by 2045. He just gave a stare at the wall and said, "Skynet"

[@JayWest14]

I agree, and I'm curious is if that's how we'll finally begin to travel in time. While the Laws of Physics prevent us, in this dimension, to travel because of factors like speed of light and gravity, would those same laws apply inside a computer?

[@katiebosko8263]

It's gonna be starlink🙄

[@BillyOnYouTube]

@@JayWest14 I've thought about what you said for a while. And I believe the answer is no. We'll only be limited by the constraints of previous programming.

[@stuckonaslide]

@@JayWest14 time travel is an exploit with the physics engine. you can get banned. i wouldnt try it.

[@gvojuice3822]

@@katiebosko8263 weeb

[@ckndude]

Ive learned through studying NDEs that we are spiritual beings having a human experience and therefore this earthly existance is not the ultimate reality but there is a definite purpose why we wre here.

[@AlexTrusk91]

Ultimately he says that our ohysical universe runs on something else. but supposing that its another physical enviroment would produce a loop-logic. i rather think our universe runs like a dream, or a game, or both, on something that is not bounded by logic any may not be bounded either by concepts or physical rules, so the thing the universe runs on might be free from time, distance, anything, but also kinda boring without simulating, or creating a universe to experince limited things. The most interesting question is: is it a consciousness or did it just evolve with running the universe? And does the universe experiences only trough living beings our trough everything? Can the universe rewind to a certain point and be rethinked to another realisation that was also possible (supposing there is only one our at least a limited ammount of universes) like an author can overthink a story? What happens when we cease to exist here? Will we experince a re-uniting to this meta-reality outside of everywhere and everywhere at once? And is there a difference to becomming one with the physical universe anyways? could a over-conciousness interact directly, like we would await it from a god? and if so, would this ruin the game since it would break the barrier between inside and outside the gameboard? maybe it was done in the past but not recently. maybe rules can change if the higher level decides so. like we could just change a rule in a monopoly game if everyone wants this. but mostly we would behave inside the rules of the game and a figure inside the game couldn't tell the defference if there is something higher or not. Rule-Breaking is a strong evidence for a higher level of capeabilities above or level of existence. We must either wait for it to happen, or find a way to run wild on the game board, ignoring the basic rules, basicly cheat. (this is the only thing that gives me hope that we see the universe some day, cheat ourself somehow elswhere...)

[@Kugelschrei]

Interesting. Maybe we are just not meant to reach outside to grasp the whole game, the rules and the players, maybe it's part of the game's rules that we cannot realize them. This would ofc create a paradox, and we would never be able to tell if we actually are in the game or not. I once had an Idea about why this game would be running in the first place. Maybe this simulation got created to prove a concept, as part of an experiment ran by higher-beings. Mankind could be one of many examples for an intelligent civilization and the thesis is that every advanced civilization is bound to destroy itself. Whatever it is, I strongly believe that the simulation serves some kind of purpose, it might also be a purpose that is incomprehandable by us humans.

[@AlexTrusk91]

***** Interesting tought, but it just pushes the question away a little bit: would these higher beiongs exist in the ultimate reality or could they just think the same than we do here? the question of the ultimate underlying whatever all physical, logical runs on is either "nothing" or "non-physical". every layer of another physical existence requieres some other explanation. same goes for the question of the first cause (ever, doesn't matter if there where a crunched universe before ours). either theres no first cause and logic end/starts at this point or there is a first cause for everything physical and itself can't be physical (because that would basicly need another thing that caused it)

[@Kugelschrei]

I get your point and the paradox it creates. The only explaination would be that these higher beings to not need a physical existance with any kind of rules, but then again, they created our universe, so there must have been "something" which lead to the creation and then, as you said, we need a first cause. I highly doubt we will ever know or be able to comprehend it, but maybe we are just too fixated on our physical existence, maybe we do not need a first cause to explain it, maybe that's just a concept that makes sense for our (understanding of the) universe.

[@AlexTrusk91]

***** yeah, maybe its so. but for me: i believe in weak theistic agnosticism, wich is basicly: i guess there is a higher level of being-ness, maybe even devinity, but we can't be sure (maybe theres nothing, no 1st cause, just universe and naturalism on its own, even if this kills logic too). but maybe we can find out at least something about it, something we could be sure of. (strong agnostgcism is like "we'll never find out anything about that). After all, its just a belief, but its a belief that i can go with without any contradiction with other things i believe to know. never stop thinking, never stop searching on :P

[@Kugelschrei]

Alex Trusk Nice topic to talk about with you, thanks for that :)

[@erictaylor5462]

On a fundamental level does it matter if we are a simulation? If everything we do, every thing we measure, effect, experiment on, or do anything at all to conforms to laws that we can form theories about, quantize, and render mathematical formulas of then is there any difference at all between those laws being parameters or rules for the simulation or them being laws that confine a real universe? The only real difference between our being a simulation or a real universe is that the simulation can, at any point can be terminated (say they destroy the computer or machine running the simulation). If that were to happen then everything in the simulation will no longer exist and we would never know it nor would we even remember ever existing. If we are a computer simulation running in a computer what would be the chance that the universe it's running in is a simulation itself? You could end up with very large numbers of simulations within simulations with each one increasing the chance of some kind of failure. If any one of the computers fails (all of the simulated computers AND the one real computer) then the simulation in that computer will stop along with all of the simulations in that simulation. How many simulations in simulations do you need before you reach a 100% chance of computer failure (or near enough to 100%)? Because I'm typing this I can be sure that I exist (in a simulation or a real world) and as I see it the chance of computer failure is so hi in a simulation withing simulation world I can conclude that I am in a real world.

[@SayNOtoGreens]

And another comment on your point about "everything we measure, experiment on" and so on confirming to our theories. Hey, remember how surprised physicists were when they first discovered quantum effects and realised what it all means? Same for general relativity. The following is of course quite a bit far-fetched and more than a bit tongue-in-cheek but what if we simly hit the simulation limits there? Quite simply - whoever designed the model never expected its virtual inhabitants to ever get that far, to the extreme scales, energies, speeds etc. So (for computational purposes) they took some shortcuts there? These shortcuts work well on agregate level but, once those naughty virtual scientists got too curious, they spotted the cheats! And that's why we had to rework the perfectly nice Newtonian mechanics. Remember - we had to expand it not because of its own internal problems (it's fine by itself) but because it didn't match observations at the very extreme edges of our reality... simulated reality?

[@erictaylor5462]

SayNOtoGreens I saw a cartoon with my nephew that I found fascinating and quite deep for a kid's show. The premise of the story was that the protagonist realizes that he is really just part of a dream. The story ends up with the people getting out into the real world and working to keep the dreamer asleep. That's all I can remember, but it got me thinking. Most times when we dream, we don't KNOW it's a dream. I've tried lucisd dreaming but any time I become aware that I am dreaming I wake up. I once dreamed Mt. Hood erupted. (I live in Oregon) I was looking at the mountain and I saw the ash cloud boiling out, then I saw it reverce and go back. Loke watching an eruption with the film reversed. I clearly remember thinking. That can't happen in real life. I must be dreaming." Then I woke up.

[@aminofuel2801]

And who created him? And in wich reality does he live? .

[@erictaylor5462]

drago884 turtles all the way down.

[@erictaylor5462]

drago884 "I have no need for that hypothesis."

[@PhunkeyMunkey]

Want to view the control room of this matrix? Smoke DMT (Dimethyltryptamine).

[@darrenpope755]

Cemel Dosce... after that, the problem becomes putting into words and understandable terms what you've experienced once you've returned. As soon as you start to objectify such abstract concepts - the things that have no analogy in our universe - the point is missed. The importance is downplayed. The experience becomes a memory of a joyride. Sure, you are now able to understand that all the bullshit you experienced before is just bullshit, but the experience that is so incredibly important intermingles and becomes part of the bullshit. We now know that we're not even remotely conscious enough to understand god, but how much closer does that get us? Does breaking down that barrier get us anywhere? Just want to know your thoughts.

[@adamfitz22]

Darren Pope yes, more people need to be talking about this and asking these type of questions

[@paulroberston1942]

adam smith I am not against drugs - I have used them all my life even well into my 50s, albeit no more, but let us not think that what we experience under their influence is a more accurate truth. Drugs alter the way the brain process information and the experiences are as likely to be self-deceiving as much as some sort of insight. I blame Aldous Huxley for such nonsense.

[@samvanacker95]

Paul Roberston I agree for manufactured drugs, although even these can give you useful insights for the reality we experience when not on drugs, but DMT seems like a different matter to me. DMT is a substance that is provided to us by nature, naturally included in our 'design' and everything in our bodies serves a purpose. You can have similar but less intense experiences by meditating and maybe it wasn't intended for us to reach as high levels as we do when we purposely increase the amount, but when we do we seem to welcomed at that place. Also the fact that everybody experiences a very similar experience with it is interesting to me since most other drugs depend much more on the person itself and where he let's his thoughts take him.

[@farceadentus]

Want to view the control room and hack the Matrix? Meditate! OMMM SHANTI!

[@TRUESTORIES-YT]

The Problem with the simulation within a simulation theory is that it fails to incorporate the Law of Entropy, which means that each additional simulation in the chain after the original lacks enough information to be either believable or sustainable.

[@deepdude4719]

😳🙄🤔

[@Noelsterrr]

That could be why we're starting to question it.

[@N30K4L]

This guy has a lot of really good points, and it was all well laid out. Unfortunately, he was all over the place, and not very well spoken. I think his message wasn't delivered correctly and therefore lost on most people.

[@nokia3210fuck]

You can't prove anything by probabilities.

[@hugoc.8534]

Kalin V so was it all well laid out orrr

[@bindmedia2852]

Totally agree with this comment.

[@howmathematicianscreatemat9226]

He should have made more nonverbal cues. Communication is only 7% words

[@captbluntman]

Some believe that we're living in some kind of reality TV show and we're being watched by a higher race 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@deepfakestudio7776]

This is actually a movie called The Truman Show. With Jim Carrey I recommand IT !! IT is a must watch

[@wowcool8749]

This is true because I am the higher race. I've tapped into this sim just to reply to your comment. I'm going to lvl you up shortly.

[@toddymcgann5856]

South Park episode

[@RejectedPaintings]

@@wowcool8749 LMAO

[@stephainehorta3205]

"I always feel like. . . Somebody's watching meee"

[@SeekTheTruth10006]

*"We were on the exact same earth we are now. We looked up at the same sky and saw the same moon, sun and stars. The only difference is, we were living in a different type of body. We evolved from them, so the odds are we were them. If we were not them, who was? It had to be us. True or false?" ~ from "The Present" at TruthContest◘Com*

[@GlassGenius]

I took shrooms and was watching a documentary on how perfect the universe. It touched on this subject also. The day before I’d been talking to a mate about lucid dreaming. And how desirable that is to me. And then I had the incredible realisation. I looked at my hand and I made my finger tips touch my thumb in order. I realised regardless of how what or why I am…. I conscious that I am right here, right now. No lucid dream needed. I am In something better than that.

[@kokomanation]

We may live the same life over and over in the simulation

[@ciaareinthecommentssection9575]

I think this is the most plausible option which has led to a philosophical end. It means that you better do everything perfectly because you are doomed to relive this experience ad infinitum.

[@kokomanation]

C0LLAPSTHES0C13TY eternal recurrence inside a simulated reality lol

[@elibronson3501]

for some, that would be hell

[@kokomanation]

i have real moments of crazy deja vu

[@magicpowers]

i have felt sometimes life is like a movie. I have had dreams about an ordinary event or experience that comes true later in life. And when it does it took so many different actions and reactions that put me in the situation i dreamed about. None of them really important or beneficial. just freaks me out alittle to think it is all been done already. Are we in control at all or has it played out already.

[@jamesuhallmusic]

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people! "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks

[@codyh2492]

I like Bill Hicks. But no one chooses to go on this hellish ride, it has been imposed onto everyone who has ever existed.

[@bricksampson654]

@@codyh2492 you don’t know that for truth Cody. We could be here by our own accord

[@codyh2492]

@@bricksampson654 What would you say the odds of that are?

[@joeshmoe6930]

@@codyh2492 As good as the odds against, since it is unknowable to us at this moment.

[@codyh2492]

@@joeshmoe6930 That’s like saying the odds of a Christian god existing, the odds of a Flying Spaghetti Monster existing, and the odds of no god existing are all equally likely because it is unknowable to us at this moment. Just because we don’t know doesn’t mean that every imaginable possibility is just as likely to be true.

[@jeremyyarbro8749]

He is right. Physics has given us evidence that reality is information based, and it is being computed. Wave-particle duality is a result of the way objects are rendered to us. Special relativity happens because of computing limitations. This VR doesn't even require a lot of computing power. This is a probabilistic reality. Nothing is rendered unless a conscious observer requests a result. Until then it exists in probaility only. Very easy to compute. There are experiments being devised that will prove reality is being rendered in this way. This is the only way to explain quantum mechanics. Why there is no matter. This guy is right in one sense, but wrong about "downloading"your mind. Your mind does not come from within this reality. This is a VR...that mind which controls our bodies as well as the "computer"(which isn't really like our computers at all) both exist outside the VR. The VR cannot compute itself, and the player does not live in the VR.

[@alexwright7144]

+Jeremy Yarbro Do you have any sources for you special relativity and wave-particle duality claim? What are these experiments that prove reality is rendered?

[@jeremyyarbro8749]

Alex wright Sure. thephysicalworldisvirtual.com/ I believe chapter 1 deals with QM and Relativity.

[@cabudagavin3896]

+Alex wright it is true. this is quantum mechanics however his conclusion( or acceptance as possible evidence) that this means we are in a simulation is false, this only proves that we do not understand quantum mechanics because we are predisposed to thinks such things as (a particle cant exist in two places at once e.g.) because it has been all we have known for so long and is so fundamental that disproving these feels "like a glitch in the matrix so to say. But when looking at the quantum you must think quantum and reality of the big is not set in stone for the quantum

[@jeremyyarbro8749]

Alex wright Every quantum mechanics experiment proves reality is being rendered? Wave function collapse proves reality is being rendered. Don't worry, there are experiments in the works aiming to prove that reality = computed information. They haven't been done yet because most scientists don't understand how this reality is rendered. One does, however. I'll let you know how it goes.

[@jeremyyarbro8749]

Ryan Jolly The conclusion is true. Your argument from ignorance is a non-argument. That is, I claim the effects of relativity and QM are artifacts of computational processing, and your response is "we don't know what QM is". What are you even talking about?

[@idontreallyexist92]

I believe the creators of our simulated reality are those at Ted talk. They are studying us. The man you see in this clip is simply tech support given a program to let us know we are all simply energy plugged into this simulated reality.

[@LR0278]

Interested at first. However the guy talking about it is not. I'm sure he is brilliant just not very good as a public speaker.

[@Satan666Official]

@Alexander Ross He covered a lot of ground in such a short time; likely why people aren't picking up on it. Pay attention the whole way or you may get lost. It is a deep subject after all... theories about reality itself? Doesn't get much crazier!

[@PrakashGhai19]

Felt the same

[@econdude3811]

Smoot brought an extraordinarily complicated topic down to earth, which is remarkable in itself. I watched the whole way through and enjoyed both the subject and the style of presentation. If you don't like rushed and quirky he's not for you, but it's a matter of style and whether you like his style

[@Big_Nigs64]

I was thinking the same. He's horrible at speaking. Simple concept but hard to follow.

[@URAWESOME94]

Luc R it’s TED tbh. These talks are like Twitter personified. These topics are better served in long forms such as a podcast that regularly extends 2+ hours or documentary. It is still interesting to see how someone might compact it all down to necessity and relevance to create some type of summary. In that frame of thought he’s done an excellent job, but you can tell he’s more focused on fitting it in his window of time than having a genuine conversation. Simulation theory isn’t something you can casually explain in 20 minutes.

[@RobertDigitalArtist]

I wish Mr Smoot simulated someone who could actually present -_-

[@zenimus]

+Robert LC - Digital Artist I know right? Seriously terrible talk-- the simulation hypothesis and the solipsists lemma are interesting problems that deserve better treatment.

[@BrainBoyle]

+Robert LC - Digital Artist wish you could simulate someone who isn't rude .. Unless you have a video to show of yourself also getting up in front of many people, and lecturing on an equally far out subject, whilst overcoming your own inexperience of public speaking .. ansd showing us how its really done ??

[@RobertDigitalArtist]

Brain Boyle Haha, classic 'can you do it better' fallacy.. With your twisted logic, if you invite a magician and he sucks, you can't express that opinion unless you're a better magician yourself :P Or you go out and eat in a restaurant that has terrible food, you can only criticize that if you're a top chef yourself..right.

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

+Robert LC - Digital Artist can't say I disagree there..... he should have asked a post grad of his to take the mic... and he walks about like a distressed polar bear.

[@Seannyoo900]

+Robert LC - Digital Artist Hey, I agree as well. I enjoyed the content, but he really wasn't that convincing, despite his qualifications. He stumbles on his words a lot, and rushes points, and overall this could have been presented in a much more interesting and organized way. I have to say I'm disappointed that the potential wasn't met. Nevertheless, the whole thing left me with some good thoughts and info so I can ponder about these concepts on my own. If done right, this would have been a much more interactive and mind-blowing talk. My mind wasn't blown...sucks

[@patriciasmall4394]

In my experience the initial effects of hallucinogenic substances is a visual pixelation and coming down highlights visual patterns covering all surfaces. Even the sky.

[@samrein9919]

A hallucination is your mind making whatever in your brain is reality. But none of those things are real and are only imagination

[@darkalienzeta6713]

Please post real life cheat codes and override codes below and how to activate

[@isaiahwelch8066]

If movies are any indication of how simulated life really is, both "The Matrix" and "Ready Player One", when taken together, show how simulations really will work (maybe add in Tron to this too). What gets me is how eerie the predictions made in movies tend to turn into real things. And, incidentally, begs the question: Which came first, the simulation we live in, or the idea we live in a simulation?

[@torilovebyrd8418]

Isaiah Welch well of course the simulation came first. Awareness of a simulation cannot precede the simulation it’s self. And as far as predictions go, if I tell you in a movie what I’m going to do before it happens it’s hardly a prediction more like a preview

[@erengonzalez79]

Obviously the stimulation came first it's just that a lot of people are waking up they're getting smarter just like robots will be in the future and movies are just predictions of what's coming

[@erengonzalez79]

Call me crazy but I knew since I was little girl that there's no such a thing as a god there is something out there bigger than us but it's not something that loves us or wants the best for us based on studies of the Bible I consider it if it did existed but it's a very bloody God sadistic shortest to say the list

[@username6135]

"...and then the supercomputer said: "let there be light"". -A. C. Clarke

[@Nyxuchi]

HAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣

[@username6135]

@Dark Hacker "One Billion Names of God".

[@King-cg8wz]

💀💀

[@chriswebb6274]

There can be only one

[@bleach--__--2493]

"People are asleep when they die they wake up" Imam Ali (cousin of prophet Muhammad pbuh) Edit: This doesnt mean that life is stimulation it means that this all temporary.

[@sergioregalado6256]

That's why all the famous stars kill them selves ...they got bored and wanted to hit the next level already?? [Not encouraging suicide]

[@bleach--__--2493]

@@sergioregalado6256 Exactly they think they reached their full potential and have nothing to achieve left.

[@MinisterSillywalks]

@@bleach--__--2493 Devs should publish some Endgame-Content.

[@bleach--__--2493]

@@MinisterSillywalks lol

[@harambey]

1. The theory of evolution came from the hindu brahmins 2. Panthiestical Evolution was passed down by pythagoras to the Greeks 3. Thales and his ionic school branched out from panthiestic evolution to naturalistic evolution 4. Plato and Aristotle's evolutionary ideas were dispersed through the Alexandrian school in egypt 5. The ideas were followed through into the middle ages (Aquinas), Renaissance and into Freemasonry, where they were preserved 6. Freemasonry and the enlightenment had a rebirth of the philosophy 7. Lord Monboddo and Erasmus Darwin carried the philosophy foward 8. Charles Darwin developed the idea This is what the cool kids believe these days 😂🤫

[@coopergates9680]

All of these points show that us being simulated is _plausible_, but not _proven_; his own slide of humans being unable to tell what is real to some extent refutes the notion that us being simulated is definitely proven.

[@loveyou3829]

2:57 a philosovavickal zombie... 3:00 a philozovokal zombie lmao simulation glitch... Error 404

[@sabedra2000]

lmao!

[@altFEL181]

Lol

[@Satan666Official]

One of those cute old people quirks 😄👴

[@nixxon]

The fact this video is from 2014 and people are still commenting about it makes George Smoot a hero

[@traceb2232]

I'm more than exhausted! I have narcolepsy with cataplexy. I want to opt out of this simulation man! Or change me make me better! I've worked hard & steady forever but I need a break!

[@LandonAshworthDirects]

“I’m going to convince you” ….- proceeds to not convince me even 1%

[@TheMilkManCow]

Guys it's just a thought experiment calm down.

[@N7Arietta]

+Private Pecker totally agree, I think people are missing the point.

[@ironassbrown]

+Collin Donahue The whole talk seemed kinda pointless to me. I agree that it is a thought experiment, but I thought it was a bit of a dud. Some of the material was interesting, but their was no direction to delivery. When it was all over I felt unconvinced, and like I had just listened to a silly person for an uncomfortable 20 mins.

[@medstud]

+Private Pecker I expected more of a Nobel prize winner than a thought experiment that is regurgitated frequently on nerd sites.

[@dannydell6435]

+medstud SAD VIDEO I agree lame.

[@kempkamichal]

+medstud Thought just the same. Not that I don't believe it is possible or whatever but these arguments were totally unconvincing. It was so detached from the main point that after some time I even forgot what I was listening to.

[@b3at2]

the real arrogance is thinking we are conscious and not strictly enslaved by instincts.

[@jessstuart7495]

Yeah, we humans like to think pretty highly of ourselves.

[@Crittek]

Do you identify as a wolf?

[@b3at2]

I am a wolf (metaphorically speaking that is).....ever met one before?

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

Er. but consciousness and behaviour are two entirely different things. Do you mean 'free will' vs instinct? Or 'thinking' vs instinct maybe?

[@katherineadrianekathcy1019]

Empty Head why so complicated? Instinct vs thinking vs free will vs mind vs heart vs conscious vs sub conscious ? It's all coming from one you, your mind . It's all choice. like, whether you decide to eat salad today or ice cream, but you can't have ice cream because you already have one yesterday, today should be the salad day. But for some reason today you are depressed, so you make an exceptional, but you eventually ended up salad anyway because you don't want to feel guilt.

[@danparf1]

I'm kinda not joking right now. I really feel like the world isn't genuine. Reason is I've got like a really good memory and I can remember like every word of a previous conversation from years ago that wasn't really about anything important but I keep finding myself having the same conversations with different and the same people. Unless something scripted happens to trigger more dialog I just feel like I'm living out the same old predetermined npc life and yeah u may say I've played to many games or whatever but everyday I just seems to find little inconcistances in everyone's consciousness. What I mean by this is I feel like each and every one of us are the same person with the same thoughts and worries and the only real thing that's sets us apart are the specific people and actions we have met and done. So if I was you (but I have my body and brain) and the only key differences being our memories swapped I belive you would act exactly how I do and I'd act exactly how u do. So regardless of sounding like a crazy person with bad punctuation do u understand where I'm coming from? Even a little? Ps. Look up string theory. If each cell is comprised up of small electrical bands or whatever then that literally means our entire universe is made up of electricity deep down right? If string theory is indeed true of course. Right imma let this guy talk and further make me feel more crazy LOL

[@gingerleyc798]

How many ppl actually have An Original Thought???? Are you An Original? Do your thoughts ever differ at all from anyone elses? Thank God I'm a musician. I write original music that allows me to believe I'm original. But am I really...?

[@lunaisnotcool8424]

i honestly misread the title and thought it said "Psychics can prove it"

[@rasati]

"if your grandfather, great grandfather, or great great grandfathers name starts with a J the world has been proven to be a simulation"

[@lopiklop]

that's actually really cool that the brains nueronal network can be mapped. It'a amazing

[@PaulKirtley]

He asked for a pint before coming on stage but the organisers told him he'd already had one too many. Clearly a bright man but slurring his words. Reminds me of one of my philosophy lecturers. He was always in the pub at lunchtime and had at least 5 pints before our afternoon lectures...

[@alexarivera3354]

His behavior is also indicative of that of a stroke victim.

[@crieverytim]

you know this how?

[@alexarivera3354]

@@crieverytim If your question was directed at me, I'm a Registered nurse. I've often seen this in patients.

[@_Area-51]

D Zee LOL

[@insertpithynamehere]

I feel like he may either think faster than his tongue works, or he's super nervous.

[@humanofearth7524]

R2, R2, L1, L1, Up, down left, right, up, down, left, right.

[@trollbigshots6825]

Omg I made it out

[@ntkntuthuko5330]

I got unplugged

[@christinajill5358]

???

[@humanofearth7524]

@aaron cole weapons if I remember right

[@johnbradstreetwilliamsthei2420]

This dude is reverse psychology from the machine, to make you think you're not in a simulation.

[@TabacoTheGreen]

Totally posible this is called controlled dissidence.

[@jaylucas8352]

Hehe. Good one.

[@acool6401]

If we are complex simulations then one could imagine that we might be highly complex forms of entertainment for the creators of the simulation. Time and space might possibly behave differently for us than the "real" time and space so that the creators would easily experience the thoughts, experiences and reflections of entire lifetime in what would naturally appear to us to be an entire lifetime but is in reality what appear to them as even less than seconds of our time to the creators monitoring our lives. They watch the birth and end of a universe and every thought that happened in between in just one session. Maybe we are given only enough sensory perception to percieve this programmable reality and can even evolve to wonder and speculate it's simulation status in that time but lack the true sensory perceptions that allow us to gather data about the nature of the "true" reality because it is beyond what is programmable but a close enough simulation to be a worthy challenge and curiosity for the creators. So ignorance is bliss and we are are simply content to eat, sleep, play, make love, procreate, cry and laugh, live and die. We exist in that sense as fully as we can exist and even program some things of our own in our reality for our own entertainment. We come full circle (so to speak) when we are able to harness enough computing power to create a simulation of our own reality but never reach or understand the true reality outside our universe or multiverse.

[@zarni000]

but this is a contradiction. we should only be able to do a simulation of our reality if our own simulation creators allow us enough processing power to do this.

[@acool6401]

+zarni000 I don't know for sure but with an advanced civilization, it's not too hard to imagine that their computers are most likely at a quantum level with virtually unlimited processing power and powered by the energy of the sun. Just my imagination.

[@acool6401]

CreatorHunter a Type II civilization - can harness the power of their entire star (not merely transforming starlight into energy, but controlling the star) and as you know all stars are really just other suns. By the time a sun burns out we will probably be at least a type 3 civilization and it won't matter since we won't be bound to mother earth anyway.

[@acool6401]

Its totally cool man. It could be stars (depending on their level of technological sophistication) they use or even better but I /we can only speculate. For all we know they have some way of extracting energy from black holes and perhaps even create them in order to do that without the chaos we know would ensue. Maybe they understand quantum gravity fluctuations on such a level as to extract energy from there or from Dark energy. Who knows? The list of ways they could extract energy from the universe is bountiful and probably beyond our comprehension anyway. Their world and our worlds would be so stark in their contrast that we would probably seem like mere ants to them by comparison but at least ants that were evolving to be like them someday. I imagine them them looking at us and saying: Awwwwwww isn't that cute?!...they developed enough technology to travel to their closest orbiting neighbor...the moon....awwwwww ( beaming with pride).... Akin to us watching a 1 year old walk for the first time and stumble but make those first few steps successfully and learn how to walk.

[@acool6401]

+CreatorHunter Yes it would be cool to know that we were the first civilization but with so many billions and billions of planets out there...I highly doubt we are the first but if we are the actual first then how would we go about determining that status without actually knowing about all that exists in our universe and it's boundaries?

[@tsjoencinema]

When you think of reasons of making such simulations, the one we hear about is ancestor simulation. But it could be also that some "alien" civilization comes across a tomb world and based on their archeological finding run a simulation.

[@bytefu]

Well, he didn't actually prove anything. And this is nothing new, plain old god of the gaps argument, with scientists and simulations instead of god and creation. He says that if we have contradictions in physics, it's due to either lack of understanding or simulation properties. And what does the history of science tell us? Exactly. Also, he plays on words in his favour: "If physics is inconsistent, then more likely a simulation" It's true, but it doesn't mean that inconsistency means *only* that. It also means that it's more likely that we don't understand physics well enough. I hate when people do this, especially scientists.

[@zarni000]

yeah you are 100% correct. i couldn't believe this guy is supposed to be a physicist and a nobel laureat at that.

[@MrMetal4Ever123]

Still can't rule out the possibility though!

[@bytefu]

thispurplefox The point is not that we should rule the possibility out, but that this case is less likely, but he present's it with such confidence, as if it's already proven. That's the bullshit part that bugs me. It's like saying that if we see a yellow puddle, that's definitely piss, because piss is yellow. But it could just as well be lemonade. Though in his case, the puddle doesn't smell like piss, so it's more likely lemonade or something else. But he didn't smell it, he just concluded that it's piss.

[@MrMetal4Ever123]

Yeah I get what you mean, I agree he isn't very convincing. I've read some paper on the hypothesis and that was rather convincing. The conclusion was that it would be more likely we're living in a simulation than otherwise. Pretty cool to think about.

[@Rievaulxiscool]

+Artem Borisovskiy A+

[@joeshmoe6930]

I don't think people realize what "downloading your brain" means... Downloading or copying a brain more than likely isn't the same thing as transferring your consciousness.

[@andreiadetavora8471]

Bingo!