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No we are not in a simulation. This concept is always predicated on what our current level of ability to make simulations and extrapolating the ideas out to an advanced form. The very fact that this article is talking about "pixels" says the primitive version of our simulations could not be the basis for a simulation in which we live. There are too many things that happen without a "human" observing the event/change that the likelihood of those events being created in a simulation is pretty much zero. Why bother simulating a phenomenon that doesn't get observed? It just doesn't make sense to simulate a universe so vast if most of it is not observed yet has an effect on the whole. People just like the idea of The Matrix and desperately try to put reality into that context. I will never be a believer in this, especially given our very primitive ability to simulate things.
Why bother simulating a phenomenon that doesn't get observed?
Observed by whom? Simulation requires simulators which requires intelligence behind the tech. Those behind the curtain can surely observe this stuff. Plus the science behind any type of observation is fascinating. From the atom to the universe mere observation can affect the observed. Anyway some good points you raise. I'm certainly not a proponent of simulation but the concept interests me, and if it turned out to be true, it would not bother me in a bit. It could make sense of the senseless.
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[–] Morbo 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
No we are not in a simulation. This concept is always predicated on what our current level of ability to make simulations and extrapolating the ideas out to an advanced form. The very fact that this article is talking about "pixels" says the primitive version of our simulations could not be the basis for a simulation in which we live. There are too many things that happen without a "human" observing the event/change that the likelihood of those events being created in a simulation is pretty much zero. Why bother simulating a phenomenon that doesn't get observed? It just doesn't make sense to simulate a universe so vast if most of it is not observed yet has an effect on the whole. People just like the idea of The Matrix and desperately try to put reality into that context. I will never be a believer in this, especially given our very primitive ability to simulate things.
[–] Wazhappenin1 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Why bother simulating a phenomenon that doesn't get observed?
Observed by whom? Simulation requires simulators which requires intelligence behind the tech. Those behind the curtain can surely observe this stuff. Plus the science behind any type of observation is fascinating. From the atom to the universe mere observation can affect the observed. Anyway some good points you raise. I'm certainly not a proponent of simulation but the concept interests me, and if it turned out to be true, it would not bother me in a bit. It could make sense of the senseless.