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Related: About this forumElon Musk thinks we are most likely living in a Simulated Reality
"there is only a one in a billion chance that we are living in the "base reality". He postulates that virtual reality will become so realistic that we will soon be unable to distinguish it from the real thing. And, the Simulated Reality will continue making another Simulated Reality and so on...
Nitram
(22,768 posts)no way of knowing. The guy may be smart, but he obviously has his limitations. The odds are a trillion to one that Elon Musk is right about this.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)My belief though, is that any simulation as complex as this one would have to be would be pointless.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)sagesnow
(2,824 posts)Here's another video with a good overview of Quantum science behind this hypothesis:
Nitram
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of its existence.
Nitram
(22,768 posts)this universe. Can't be proved, can't be disproved. Just a belief.
Me.
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(11,411 posts)Loyd
(309 posts)PJMcK
(21,998 posts)With everything wrong in our world, I have only one question:
What idiot dreamed up this version?
sagesnow
(2,824 posts)mutually shared simulated experience in order to learn and evolve. According to this Biologist and Physicist:
sagesnow
(2,824 posts)"You create and perceive the world simultaneously. Your mind does this so well you are not even aware of it." Dom Cobb in the movie Inception.
PJMcK
(21,998 posts)After all, the ending is basically, "and then I woke up."
Great special effects, though.
sagesnow
(2,824 posts)If I recall, Dom was trying to get an idea into a wealthy businessman's subconscious to get him to sell or dismember his father's company. I had to do some research on the web to understand it all:
http://www.thisisbarry.com/single-post/2015/09/15/Inception-2010-Explained
LunaSea
(2,892 posts)But now researchers say they've sussed out the whole situation for us. Theoretical physicists Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Korvizhini, who are based at Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University in Israel and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, claim to prove the concreteness of our reality in a recent Scientific Advances study.
To understand what they found, it helps to first recognize what a computer is: it's essentially a machine that performs calculations. In order for a computer to simulate reality, then, the machine would need to have enough power to actually create the phenomena that we experience within its simulated environment. What the researchers discovered, however, is that storing the information required to simulate certain behaviors of even a couple hundred electrons would take more atoms than exist in the universe. For better or for worse, this world is real. Probably.
https://www.popsci.com/quantum-hall-computer-simulation
"Physicists have pointed out that quantum physics makes this incredibly unlikely, given electrons and atoms aren't tiny balls whizzing predictably through space."
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-complexity-rules-out-our-universe-as-a-computer-simulation
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)because they can out-argue people who might talk sense into them, so their dumber ideas don't get checked.
That said, I think Musk is more on the ball than, say, Mark Zuckerberg about what we have to watch out for with the development of AI.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)point out that what each of us sees as reality could be "merely the dreams of giant yellow slugs swimming in the seas of Jupiter."
He then went on and taught us how we could not disprove this.
You need drugs?
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)For instance, if I were a member of a cult which taught that people like me have genuine subjective consciousness and feelings, but people like you just act out similar behaviors without being conscious of them, you would have no way to disprove it. There's a long list of philosophical positions such as that which are utter crap but not disprovable.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Especially when it has no utility.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."
sandensea
(21,604 posts)I always tell her she's imagining things.
paleotn
(17,884 posts)Elon.....please go have a chat with Occam about his razor. He will clue you in to the law or parsimony.
I hope he's not going all Howard Hughs on us.
tclambert
(11,084 posts)That explains how this universe got so screwed up that Donald Trump could golf his way into the White House.