What if the Universe were really a Computer Simulation?

Is the idea plausible? (Before watching the video)

Yes	25.9%	[ 14 ]
Possibly	33.3%	[ 18 ]
No	18.5%	[ 10 ]
No Opinion	22.2%	[ 12 ]
Total Votes:			[ 54 ]

[The Comrade 5000]

CuAnnan

The Comrade 5000

I've had weird experience I think the term is called glitching. It rarely happens but when it does I could be looking out of a window and then everything in my sight freezes for like a quick second before it all goes back to normal.

Last time it happened I was riding on a train.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis

That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing this. wink

[DarkSohisohi]

CuAnnan

The Comrade 5000

I've had weird experience I think the term is called glitching. It rarely happens but when it does I could be looking out of a window and then everything in my sight freezes for like a quick second before it all goes back to normal.

Last time it happened I was riding on a train.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis

That's not really what he is talking about, as this is more of a handicap of the brain.

Glitch Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2P4LjuVA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ghpyc6NDsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9GGFkxXHs

[CuAnnan]

DarkSohisohi

CuAnnan

The Comrade 5000

I've had weird experience I think the term is called glitching. It rarely happens but when it does I could be looking out of a window and then everything in my sight freezes for like a quick second before it all goes back to normal.

Last time it happened I was riding on a train.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis

That's not really what he is talking about, as this is more of a handicap of the brain.

Glitch Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2P4LjuVA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ghpyc6NDsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9GGFkxXHs

Nope.

[[.setsuna.]]

FINALLY!! I'm so glad I found this topic, I love talking about things like this.

anyway, there have also been theories that the universe is a hologram, which would fit in with the simulation theory. I think it could be possible.
Especially after experiences with acid and DMT, and you begin to see past this "illusion" of culture and society in general.
Recently I quit smoking weed for few months then got really high one day and had this strange feeling that my reality was being programmed and I started to realize this (it could have just been the effect of the drug) but nonetheless, I felt like I was in a "matrix" and this reality could very well be just that.

Also have you read theories about the universe being fractal?

[Cupcakes HD on youtube]

It was inspired by fiction, so Imma bet no.
He makes arguments which are inaccurate then changes screens quickly to distract you from disagreeing even the slightest. Cherry picked information.

Actually the bing bang could explain it comparatively. But it could very well be that the universe influenced the game, and the game didn't somehow reveal the nature of the universe.

But the idea that everything is quantized has been explored before, probably related to sacred geometry bs and pre-determinism, then philosophy, plato's solids (platonic solids).

Then ads at the end.

So, if we are simulated, there are boundaries, rules.

And this is a 'what if'- theres going to be a billion more of those that conflict with this: I cannot accept it as plausible.

And 1 simulations are imperfect when in computer form.
Such as
1. Overheating.
2. Errors.
3. Glitches.
4. Memory loss.
5. Memory capacity limits.

[Burt Cocaine]

Idk...I mean--its easy enough to cop out and say anything is possible--but my first person experiences seem real and organic--everyday for me is truely different and special--unless thats what they want me to think.

[Its A Crystal]

I'd want to learn how to use cheat codes.

[TerminalGodhead]

This is a pretty over-done philosophy question. The answer is, there isn't a way to rule it out, nor confirm it.

[Monet le chat]

Like Sims?
Then there are some screwy gaming programers out there who get off by making games controling other peoples lives.

[Lord of the Vine]

Then I better start hitting up up down down left right left right B A Start as often as I can.

[X of Castigation]

Who cares? It has no implications for us.

[CuAnnan]

Dizzy_Solace

And 1 simulations are imperfect when in computer form.
Such as
1. Overheating.
2. Errors.
3. Glitches.
4. Memory loss.
5. Memory capacity limits.

All of that is wrong.
Overheating is only an issue if the CPU is running above its safety threshold.
Likewise memory loss and memory capacity limits.

Errors and glitches presuppose that a software testing process could not occur, that there is only one possible test and if it fails that nobody will ever try again.

In our universe, we are undertaking universe simulation.
To try to describe the universe according to our observations.

We are vast approaching the point at which we would be able to undertake the simulation of a universe from big bang to whatever happens at the end.

[ChuckBreezy]

I think the Matrix already covered this.

[Cupcakes HD on youtube]

CuAnnan

Dizzy_Solace

And 1 simulations are imperfect when in computer form.
Such as
1. Overheating.
2. Errors.
3. Glitches.
4. Memory loss.
5. Memory capacity limits.

All of that is wrong.
Overheating is only an issue if the CPU is running above its safety threshold.
Likewise memory loss and memory capacity limits.

Errors and glitches presuppose that a software testing process could not occur, that there is only one possible test and if it fails that nobody will ever try again.

In our universe, we are undertaking universe simulation.
To try to describe the universe according to our observations.

We are vast approaching the point at which we would be able to undertake the simulation of a universe from big bang to whatever happens at the end.

The problem with that is at the point in time where our simulators need to simulate simulators that are simulating what its simulating while simulating the rest of the universe, it gets exponentially complex after a while and I don't think it will be accurately predicted unless we know the velocities of every particle at the start of the big bang.

With that simulation there would have to be breaks to certain components before other components need replacing, which will cause glitches more consistently til the technology improves, and even then one little nano-second of inaccurate electrical flow form some misplaced dust particle somewhere in the venting or simulator's circuits or something would ******** it up from that point onward if we want precision prediction.

But without precision prediction generally simulators are coated with animations, not that every color occurs naturally via simulated chemical reactions and such in most simulators yet. They are highly limited, such as yes particle behavior simulators can get good particle effects, then be used in something like battlefield lol, but it doesn't in that instance go down to the molecule for say chemical reactions.

And there might eventually be down to the quarks simulated, but there might be thing pre-quark and pre-prequark and it'd just get aeons to perfect it.

Look at how long its taking to simulate a brain, so far recently one guy simulated a mouse or rat brain on a computer. But I don't think it simulated its growth based on its diet based on its physical environment base don its evolution over time, based on our solar system based on our galaxy etc etc etc.

First, we need to prove we can have a self aware simulated entity inside a computer, that is not 'built from the ground up' but appeared 'by chance' via simulations of complex reactions. And we would need such a large simulation area too, or it would not work. There's a ton of ways to go wrong from code being imperfect, to waiting aeons for life to appear and for us to virtually enslave it for no ******** reason lol.


And a testing process could occur, but still even so look at videogames there are glitches all the time they still update, even one glitch would be fatal to a simulation program. It has to not just simulate, it has to replicate beyond realistically well.