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C C
Jul 7, 2023 10:13 PM
https://youtu.be/c9p9NE4Pji0
VIDEO EXCERPTS: . . . Elon says that we are clearly on a trajectory to soon have video games that are indistinguishable from reality [...] Elon Musk wonders what the levels above us look like, saying that the simulation is probably running in a boring world. Since when you take a video game or a movie, it is a condensed version of what is most interesting about life. Most likely, if we are in a simulation, it's very boring outside the simulation; and the further down the number of simulations you go, the more interesting it becomes. [...] If we are able to create a simulation, then the chances that we are in one greatly increases...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/c9p9NE4Pji0
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confused2
Jul 8, 2023 12:20 AM
AI Wrote:Thought: Interesting topic, but where is this going?
Speak: Elon Musk's comments about the possibility of us living in a simulation are certainly thought-provoking. While I don't have the ability to verify or refute the idea that we might be living in a simulation, it's certainly an intriguing concept to consider. At the same time, I think it's important to focus on the world we do know, and to strive to make the most of the time we have here. Whether we're living in a simulation or not, there are still many important questions and challenges that we face as a species, and it's up to all of us to work together to find solutions and create a better world for ourselves and future generations.
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Zinjanthropos
Jul 8, 2023 12:35 PM
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All you have to do is figure out where the pickup truck went. I was angry that someone would follow this close. It was right in my rear view mirror, almost in my trunk when I looked down to adjust the radio. When I straightened up and checked the tailgater there were no vehicles at all sharing the country road behind me. Where did the pickup go? It never passed me so I immediately stopped, turned around and retraced my route with no sign of a pickup and no exit for almost a couple kilometres. Had I just bolted down the road at a speed faster than light? Did the pickup driver experience a car that was in front of him suddenly disappear?
I wasn’t under the influence(impaired) so how do I know whether I imagined it or not?
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Magical Realist
Jul 8, 2023 09:51 PM
Quote:It's very boring outside the simulation
I don't know about that. We could be contained in a simulation that soothes us and keeps us sedated. Neo was living the sedentary life of a battery until he woke up outside of the Matrix. Everyone may be in for a rude awakening at death.
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Magical Realist
Jul 8, 2023 11:46 PM
(Jul 8, 2023 12:35 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: All you have to do is figure out where the pickup truck went. I was angry that someone would follow this close. It was right in my rear view mirror, almost in my trunk when I looked down to adjust the radio. When I straightened up and checked the tailgater there were no vehicles at all sharing the country road behind me. Where did the pickup go? It never passed me so I immediately stopped, turned around and retraced my route with no sign of a pickup and no exit for almost a couple kilometres. Had I just bolted down the road at a speed faster than light? Did the pickup driver experience a car that was in front of him suddenly disappear?
I wasn’t under the influence(impaired) so how do I know whether I imagined it or not?
As far as I know there is no law of physics that says a car or a truck can't suddenly disappear at any time.
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Zinjanthropos
Jul 9, 2023 03:54 AM
Pickup truck I probably imagined…lol. However I think there is one thing that should sway many people into thinking the universe is a simulation like how did a superior intelligent creator entity (god) appear out of nothing. No conception, no womb, no youth, no learning, just appear as super intelligent? Is the belief in an all knowing deity similar to that of believing in a computer that’s simulating? What’s more probable…omniscient god or machine crammed with all we know?
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C C
Jul 10, 2023 02:32 AM
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(Jul 9, 2023 03:54 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Pickup truck I probably imagined…lol. However I think there is one thing that should sway many people into thinking the universe is a simulation like how did a superior intelligent creator entity (god) appear out of nothing. No conception, no womb, no youth, no learning, just appear as super intelligent? Is the belief in an all knowing deity similar to that of believing in a computer that’s simulating? What’s more probable…omniscient god or machine crammed with all we know?
The brain itself is a virtual reality generator that was not even produced by intelligence, but evolution. Likewise, an upper level that was radically different from the nature of our world might have inherent tendencies to develop non-technological simulators -- like a tree bears nuts or fruit or gravity spawns stars and planets.
Since 99.999... percent of this universe has nothing to do with life and meaningful things, that is the kind of realities a non-intelligent level prone to offshoot simulations would randomly deal in.
The 24 quantum fields and their excitations ("pixels") occurring in them, and other abstract affairs of physics, that the brain represents as fundamental particles and concrete objects and situations at a macroscopic scale... looks pretty much like a non-technological simulator that an upper level with properties very exotic compared to our everyday experienced environment would cough-up.
What’s your brain’s role in creating space & time?: https://www.scivillage.com/thread-14353-...l#pid58765
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Ostronomos
Jul 10, 2023 09:39 PM
(Jul 10, 2023 02:32 AM)C C Wrote: (Jul 9, 2023 03:54 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Pickup truck I probably imagined…lol. However I think there is one thing that should sway many people into thinking the universe is a simulation like how did a superior intelligent creator entity (god) appear out of nothing. No conception, no womb, no youth, no learning, just appear as super intelligent? Is the belief in an all knowing deity similar to that of believing in a computer that’s simulating? What’s more probable…omniscient god or machine crammed with all we know?
The brain itself is a virtual reality generator that was not even produced by intelligence, but evolution. Likewise, an upper level that was radically different from the nature of our world might have inherent tendencies to develop non-technological simulators -- like a tree bears nuts or fruit or gravity spawns stars and planets.
Since 99.999... percent of this universe has nothing to do with life and meaningful things, that is the kind of realities a non-intelligent level prone to offshoot simulations would randomly deal in.
The 24 quantum fields and their excitations ("pixels") occurring in them, and other abstract affairs of physics, that the brain represents as fundamental particles and concrete objects and situations at a macroscopic scale... looks pretty much like a non-technological simulator that an upper level with properties very exotic compared to our everyday experienced environment would cough-up.
What’s your brain’s role in creating space & time?: https://www.scivillage.com/thread-14353-...l#pid58765
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