Are we living in a virtual reality?

[ripthesystem]

I was reading something interesting last night about the fact of if we are 'indeed' a simulation.. and eventually we run a simulation as powerful as the one we live in, it will require so much power it would cause our simulation to crash / glitch due to the exponential power required to run our simulation within our simulated world.

Anybody heard this..?

Nope, I am hearing this for the first time. Can you link the articles? This is interesting. You can call quantum entanglement a glitch does that mean the 'thing' which is powering this/our simulation can't run it optimally and is causing 'glitches' in our simulation. Like Blackholes, they are basically deleting 'objects' to free up the 'memory' to ensure that the 'expansion' can go out smoothly. Fuck! it is making sense now.

I found this article: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

To cut it short - some physical phenomena may be impossible to simulate. The article deals with quantum physics and briefly describes issues with computational power problem during simulation of problems involving quantum Monte Carlo methods. Computational power required to calculate a simulation with an anomaly (such as the quantum Hall effect) will be impossible to obtain. In the article it was said:

"The researchers calculated that just storing information about a couple of hundred electrons would require a computer memory that would physically require more atoms than exist in the universe."

Thus simulation seems technically impossible. For our civilization, at least. If we indeed live in a simulation, I can`t even begin to imagine the power of the equipment needed to generate it.

[Thekool1s]

Dude, I've been looking for the articles since joining this topic..  sadly I was looking at it from in bed from my iPhone.. it's interesting you talk about quantum physics, unfortunately, that's something I will have to do my homework on because I know nothing on the subject.

No worries... Take your time.

I think it would be also interesting for you to look into FREE WILL and the opinion of neuroscientists who apparently at the moment don't believe FREE WILL exists..

I watched a couple of videos on the subject yesterday. I am not fully convinced yet but looks like hard determinism is winning the battle.



- Do you have free will by life noggin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMdAnU3vYzA

- Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy #24 by CrashCourse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGtkDzELAI

- Why we don't have Free Will & Why that's OK by WhatI'veLearned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0GN4urbA_c&t=1030s

- Are You In A Simulation? by vsauce3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9i_0Ty7Cg

- Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTKTTt47WE


The most interesting video was this one.

The Simulation Theory - Hacking Reality (Must See): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmZ_sNf2mE&t

The gist of the video is that we are just mere shadows of objects in the 8th dimension. This simulation theory is different from the computational one.

Mind to share how do you differentiate? I guess a game should have a certain winning conditions and, perhaps, stricter set of rules while simulation`s sole point is to reproduce/create reality without letting subjects inside  the simulation know what is actually going on.

You got it right. But there is no conclusive evidence of it being a game instead of a simulation and vice versa. You can argue it is a game. All these 'gods' were bored beings, they entered our server introduced themselves and left the server after having some fun. They may return or they may not at all. The possibilities are endless and we are clueless about what's actually going on.

I found this article: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

Lol, was this article written by a troll?

"There is a caveat to this conclusion: if our universe is a simulation, there is no reason that the laws of physics should apply outside it. In the words of Zohar Ringel, the lead author of the paper, “Who knows what are the computing capabilities of whatever simulates us?” "

[FilesFM_Announcements]

Ill check those links out! I must state though I can't stand the Vsauce guy, he pulls too many weird and wonderful facial expressions for me.. to take anything he says seriously.. I always picture him in a jester suit.. also his tempo is a little too fast for my phonological dyslexic mind..

I think simulation theory doesn't just explore the idea of us being a simulation for the sake of being a game, but maybe an ancestral history of what we humans were as a society maybe 100 years ago. Perhaps this simulation is only a few days old but in our time millions of years have past by...

Maybe god made earth in 7 days due to it being a simulation.. Jesus walking on water, feeding the 5000 with a loaf of bread.. etc etc..

maybe our 'guests' have on occasions logged in to immerse themselves in our reality and been 'god like'

who knows... maybe we are just a fancy ornament above the fire place of an eccentric alien or human being, which they can see what's happening at any time by zooming in..