If we do live in a simulation, then presumably it is one of many, and therefore constraints will be involved. There will be physical constraints: Time – while our time could be sped up versus the time of those who run this, there will be limits to how much time can be sped up, an...
You don’t believe we all live in a simulation? Come on, use your noodle: that’s exactly what the simulation’s architects would want you to think!
20 years ago, futurist Nick Bostrom published the first draft of his groundbreaking simulation argument, which asks, "Are you living in a computer simulation?" Public figures like Elon Musk and Neil deGrass Tyson have also broached this line of questioni
The article discusses the possibility that the universe may be a digital simulation. Scientist Melvin Vopson argues that the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy in an isolated system can only increase or stay the same, contradicts the observed constant or decreasing entropy in ...
Here’s Proof We Live in a Holographic Universe Is the Universe Just a High-Def Hologram? That’s a mouthful, but it’s easy to understand if we think about a decidedly human-invented simulation: the virtual machine. If you have an Apple MacBook and want to run a PC program, you mig...
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...
Are We Living in a Simulation? Zohreh Davoudi We live in a vast universe, on a small wet planet, where billions of years ago single-celled life forms evolved from the same elements as all non-living material around them, proliferating and...
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The notion that we live in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many. Searching the term “simulation hypothesis” (模拟假说) returns numerous results that debate whether the universe is a computer simulation — a concept that some scientists actually take seriously. Unfortunately, this is...