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Just as we can create simulations using software, it's possible some other entity has created a simulation that contains us. A running process thinks the real
by baumandm 9y ago
Just as we can create simulations using software, it's possible some other entity has created a simulation that contains us.
A running process thinks the real world is constrained by CPU and memory and hard disks, but that doesn't mean it's true. Similarly, the universe is the "real world" from our perspective, but it's (currently) physically impossible for us to know otherwise if that is the case.
- sssilver 9y agoThe caveat here is, even if we are a computational (or some other) process in some system, that doesn't mean that process is a simulation of another process. Just because there's a system A that "wraps" system B, doesn't mean that system B's processes can be called "simulations" -- simulation implies that there's a process in system A that the process in system B is trying to mimic.