Archived I'm a computational scientist, ask me stuff about computer simulations! (whatever)
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Archived I'm a computational scientist, ask me stuff about computer simulations! (whatever)
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[–] kittysaysmeownow 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Do you think we might live in one, do you think that's a viable theory?
[–] The_Cat [S] 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
It's not impossible. But it's also not very relevant. Even if our universe is a simulation, that doesn't make it any less real for us who live in it.
[–] 8931125? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
This is the most pragmatic way to view this question.
[–] goatboy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
It matters for those of us who want to turn ourselves in to computer viruses. If this isn't a computer simulation, then we'll be wasting our lives in the pursuit.
[–] 8985629? ago
Well, if you know it's a simulation, you know the rules don't have to make sense. Presumably the "real world" has to make sense. I think the most relevant place this matters is: A simulation can be set (in order to save resources) to only properly simulate a certain area, everything else is just assumed until it needs to be rendered. Presumably, reality doesn't have this constraint.
So whether things happening in distant places are real until that information is called upon or not (a tree falling in a forest where nobody's around to hear it, so to speak) is pretty relevant. How big that area of rendering is (bigger than our planet? our solar system? our galaxy?) is also relevant.