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Post by B. on Feb 1, 2022 14:38:20 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on simulation theory?
Sometimes I disassociate so hard (since covid) that I am simply convinced we live in a simulation. There is actually no evidence against it. It's actually more comforting than depressing, though.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Feb 1, 2022 20:36:30 GMT -5
I can cite a few things against this theory. First, the immensity of the physical universe and the fact that it is apparently lifeless. I mean, why create such a massive simulation for humans to live in?
This theory is an excess of anthropocentrism: an entire universe created just to contain the human being.
Second, the high degree of microscopic detail of the universe and life. I mean, if you study a little bit about protein synthesis, immunological reaction, radioactive decay, you realize that the universe is really very complex when you think small. And if everything is a simulation, why this level of detail? As you think about how single-celled eukaryotes need a specific protein that restores telomeres so they don't go extinct, the same protein that restores telomeres in the chromosomes of our sex cells... I mean, this is a detail so fundamental but so small that most of humanity simply ignores despite being essential for the perpetuation of the species at the same time that the lack of this same protein guarantees the aging and death of all other cells... All this is evidence that physical life is sustained through well-established, not simulated, physical mechanisms.
Whenever I think about all this, I come to the conclusion not that we live it in a simulation. But I think the simplest answer is that we live in a designed environment, even though human life is not the most important subject of all. It's not as if the universe was designed for us: it's as if we were designed to live in a tiny piece of this immense universe.
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Feb 7, 2022 20:04:38 GMT -5
I personally don't believe it, but it does intrigue me. The universe is so vast and detailed that it would be difficult for even a very advanced civilization to replicate it holographically. Have to disagree about the universe being lifeless though; the chances that we're the only civilization in the galaxy, let alone the universe, are pretty much zilch.
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