Do you think we are living in a computer simulation?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

There are 3 possibilities.
1) All civilisations throughout the universe die out and go extinct before they can become technologically mature enough to simulate a civilisation/universe.
2) At some point on the path to technological maturity, humanity will lose interest in simulations.
3) We are almost certainly in a simulation.

3 requires a bit of explanation. If civilisations don't go extinct, and don't lose interest in simulating universes, then our universe (whether real or virtual) can spawn multiple universes (virtual). Each of those virtual universes, could (in theory) spawn multiple universes. And each of those could spawn multiple universes. Almost immediately, the number of potential universes races towards infinity. Most of them, virtual.

In any cosmos, with such an increasing number of virtual universes and only one real universe, the statistical odds that YOU would find yourself living in the real universe and not one of the many simulations, is vanishingly small.

I personally believe the Great Filter (option1) applies.

TheorionMage · Accepted Answer

NOT a computer simulation but instead... the Deity's 'day dream'.

The Christian Bible affirms that we are 'made' in the image & likeness of God...
and further, as God, God creates from literally NOTHING!

We, AS God's creation... in OUR 'reality' can gather, ... assemble, ... manufacture
from EXISTING raw materials BUT... THE ONLY PLACE
where we 'CREATE' and populate entire worlds, FROM NOTHING, is in OUR imaginative 'day dreams'.

Have you ever stopped to consider WHERE those occupants of YOUR daydreams GO when YOUR attention is required elsewhere?
Is their existence 'paused'? ... Or do they ephemerally 'cease to be'?

The vaunted Catholic "Baltimore Catechism" has a Q &A section,
wherein the question is:
Q: "What would happen to me, if God stopped loving me?
A: "I WOULD CEASE TO 'BE'..."

Need we say more?

amyismyname · Accepted Answer

If we are someone needs to call tech support about last year

Screenwriter · Accepted Answer

Only if someone is making me sandwiches could that be true.

Sonorous · Answer

I think that we'll never fully know or understand what we are or what our origin is.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Well basically with physicists giving up on classical models and pursuing the holographic principle. . . it seems very likely.

It is incredible to realize that the most information you can put into any region of space is a black hole. And that the description of what lies within a black hole is written on the surface.

I said it before. . . and I will say it again. . .

A black hole does not increase in size in proportion to its volume. It increases in size in proportion to its surface area.

N192K001 · Answer

Not really.

As @CuriousMufuxka mentioned, any computer with current technology (as known to the civilian-world today) would have crashed a long time ago.

'Life is complex.' would be an understatement. All the factors to take into account for an ever-increasing number of people would overload any system.

Unless there's some hyper-advanced technology out there never announced to us and/or there's a massive network/ecosystem of hyper-computers of ultra-high capacity being endlessly up-scaled with unending upgrades, refits, expansions, etc. this seems unlikely.

Yaaten · Answer

Not a chance. The entire concept is based upon nothing more substantial than pure speculation, extrapolation (i. e. guesses) and unfounded assumptions about what we may be capable of in the distant future, IF current trends in computing technology and A. I. continue.
Then of course there is the belief (and that is all it is, just a belief) that consciousness is nothing more than complex computation, and can therefore be simulated, but this is clearly and patently absurd. If it were true then our pocket calculators would be sentient. They are not. Ergo, consciousness is so much more than just the ability to add up and divide.

ZackBan · Answer

Well we definitely live in a 'simulation' not necessarily made by computers as we know them but the concept is similar what we refer to as a higher power and often kill yeachother of how to worship it is the equivalent of a computer, something that generated this world in such a functional state, gave us what we call laws of physics and made us it such complex creatues that what we mold this world into is unpredictable and spectacular.

ImSparkly · Answer

I’m more inclined to think our universe is some bad 3rd year aliens science project that got put on a high shelf for perpetuity.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

'Simulacron 3'' (1964) is a novel about this.
The idea is very plausible, but it's not necessarily about computers.
Where: our own (present) reality is the only one we have for now, and so 'simulation' is perhaps an incorrect thought.

MCheetah · Answer

No. Simulations are more fair and structured than real life. They also rarely make mistakes, and our reality is nothing but one big giant mistake after the other.

KeiaYamada · Answer

Absolutely not. Though with all the strange shit going on lately, I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.

Dontaa · Answer

I don't think that, but if we actually did that would make me feel a whole a lot better about my life. I wouldn't be stressed as much knowing all of this is just a simulation.

AllThatSweetJazz · Answer

Maybe, but the important thing is: would it even matter? You should just assume that it is and learn to live with it.

Unit1 · Answer

Definitely not. No system glitches like the same black cat appearing twice on the same spot. No folks turning into Mr. Smith or whoever.

Josh4206 · Answer

How else does the Simpsons predict everything that happens years earlier?

blondfrog · Answer

No but it is possible that the concept of god is just us living in a dream waiting to wake up from the rea world.

loveslongnails · Answer

Well if we are, it's full of viruses and needs to be cleaned and re-booted.

Massageman · Answer

No. Computers don't stay functional for about 70 years - I have!

OddBeMe · Answer

no way prove or disprove solipsism. but the fact that we all interact and follow some common rules makes it purely redundant to argue.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

It's impossible to tell. Even if our simulation isn't perfect there is no way we would know that because we have no frame of reference.

DiscomfortZone · Answer

Wow. Do you have enough tin foil for that big head of yours? :)

treehouse90 · Answer

No, real life is too random and unlogical to be coded in any kind of computers.

ItsjussZack · Answer

I don't know if anybody has ever thought about it but y'all know this use to be a free world like no jobs, currency, school or nun

electromagnetic · Answer

If I were, I need a reset.

KimmyKimchi · Answer

A simulation wouldn't be so boring ;(

Lyndsielee666 · Answer

Thinking about this gives me extreme anxiety tbh

_no_one_ · Answer

If yes then where are the glitches? 🤔

Soremain · Answer

Definitely not. Especially not computer.

jshm2 · Answer

No. Computers aren't that great.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Nah. Any computer would have crashed years ago.

vald9inches · Answer

In the end does it even matter? Lol

SuccessfulHornDog · Answer

no because it would have been rebooted by now

msc545 · Answer

Hard to know for sure.

Joker_ · Answer

We are living in your mind

ChefPapiChulo · Answer

Sometimes it seems like it.

Aurora1010 · Answer

No. That's gay

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

Alterdeep lol

Anonymous · Answer

Noooo what does it have to do?

Anonymous · Answer

What is the purpose of the universe?

Waldoe · Answer

time to reset...

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