logic dictates

[Michael]

We are SIMs.

SIMs playing out a very very accurate Historical reenactment so that Historians, running the program (probably at one of the Ivory league Universities) can better understand various aspects of human history. Of course this is all happening way way in the future. Like WAY in the future. 20-30 years from now

The reason why this is so, is because it stands to reason we will eventually be able to simulate reality as in a SIMs. One universe can run 100s of millioins (if not billions) of simulations. Within these simulations the SIMs can run their own simulations. Trillions of them.

The chances you're NOT a SIM and living in a real world, are to put it frankly, pretty crap.


Michael

 

[lightgigantic]

We are SIMs.

SIMs playing out a very very accurate Historical reenactment so that Historians, running the program (probably at one of the Ivory league Universities) can better understand various aspects of human history. Of course this is all happening way way in the future. Like WAY in the future. 20-30 years from now

The reason why this is so, is because it stands to reason we will eventually be able to simulate reality as in a SIMs. One universe can run 100s of millioins (if not billions) of simulations. Within these simulations the SIMs can run their own simulations. Trillions of them.

The chances you're NOT a SIM and living in a real world, are to put it frankly, pretty crap.


Michael

and this is a dictate of logic?

 

[S.A.M.]

Nihilism sounds more like it.

 

[Michael]

and this is a dictate of logic?

following a few beers yes.

Actually it was based on something I was reading from a Professor at MIT who argues that this, or something similar, is likely to be the case.

 

[Doreen]

The chances you're NOT a SIM and living in a real world, are to put it frankly, pretty crap.


Michael

Here's a paper outlining one person's argument.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

And here is a site with a range of papers and counterpositions on the topic...

http://www.simulation-argument.com/

I don't think this thread really belongs in Religion. I can see it in Philosophy or even physics or science and society.

 

[jayleew]

Yip, this thread belongs in Philosophy or Psuedoscience.

If we are just a simulation, who cares? Why would we want it to stop? Why would we want it to keep running? Nothing really matters.

That professor from MIT is full of shit if he thinks it is "likely"

He may as well have said it's likely there is a god. Proving either case is equally difficult.

 

[Doreen]

Yip, this thread belongs in Philosophy or Psuedoscience.

If we are just a simulation, who cares? Why would we want it to stop? Why would we want it to keep running? Nothing really matters.

That professor from MIT is full of shit if he thinks it is "likely"

He may as well have said it's likely there is a god. Proving either case is equally difficult.

Did you read the paper I linked? It is actually a fairly powerful argument.

 

[swarm]

Here's a paper outlining one person's argument.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

Woot! Faq question 13 arose from a disagreement I had with a fellow about underlying reality.

The simulation argument really doesn't add to one's experience in anyway unless the ones running the simulation violate or otherwise contaminate the simulation.

If you consider the matter, you already are a simulation run on a comupter called the brain.