Scientists and philosophers meet at the bleeding edge of simulation theory. Because the question is so big, many experts approach it from very different angles. The weighted Bayesian calculation has a lot of assumptions built in. If real life seems like just too much, take comfort in this theo...
“theory of everything”, we cannot rule out the possibility that novel physical phenomena, not allowed for in current physical theories, may be utilized to transcend those constraints[2] that in our current understanding impose theoretical limits on the information processing attainable in a given ...
The conclusion then will be that, although we might never be able to prove it, we are most likely not simulated.Stapelfeldt, RalfFern Universität HagenSpringer, ChamConference on Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence
Screenshots from the simulation show (top) the distribution of matter corresponding to the observed galaxy distribution at a light travel time of 11 billion years (when the universe was only 2.76 billion years old, or 20% of its current age), and (bottom) the distribution of matter in the ...
Are we living in a computer simulation? Imagine if life was a video game and being ran on someone’s hard drive. Everything that exists were just a virtual reality, a false and an endless world. If life were to be a game, many will question what started all of this. Maybe one day...
It may never be possible to prove conclusively that the universe either is, or isn’t, a simulation, but we’ll always be pushing science and technology forward in pursuit of the question: What is the nature of reality?
makes use of some simple probability theory, and a section providing support for a weak indifference principle that the argument employs. Lastly, we discuss some interpretations of the disjunction, mentioned in the abstract, that forms the conclusion of the simulation argument. II. THE ASSUMPT...
To this you can give a simple response: even if the simulation hypothesis were possible (which, as we’ll see, it isn’t) and not absurd (which, as we’ll see, it is), it couldn’t be simulations all the way down. However, in many simulations we posit, the scenarios are physical...
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual—and what it means either way
My ad-hoc theory is that our very distant ancestors' ability to sense movement was far more advantageous than not seeing it, especially if a predator were lurking in the dark, so like a phone's autocorrect desperately trying to predict your next most likely word, your visual system occasional...