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>>A complete simulation would require infinite means to process, memorize and exhibit. True - but a perhaps a clever simulation could concentrate it's computin
by benjohnson 10y ago
>>A complete simulation would require infinite means to process, memorize and exhibit.
True - but a perhaps a clever simulation could concentrate it's computing near the observers and approximate distant or non-observed events.
- JohnLeTigre 10y agoThat would be clever, but you would probably still notice discontinuities between the distant and close objects. But more importantly, the laws of physics would be observably non consistent.
- benjohnson 10y agoIndeed! But ff you did notice discontinuities, the simulation could reverse and readjust the simulation until you don't notice.
- JohnLeTigre 10y agoAnything can exist in that circumstance, feels like a reductio ad absurdum. I didn't go this far, so I'll have to think more about it. thanks for the food for thought.
- antisthenes 10y ago> But more importantly, the laws of physics would be observably non consistent. Isn't that what's happening during our observation of the galactic rotation curve? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve