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What's a definition of "simulation"? Bostrom's original paper (which proposed the "simulation hypothesis") doesn't define it properly that I can see. It's a v
by frabcus 5y ago
What's a definition of "simulation"?
Bostrom's original paper (which proposed the "simulation hypothesis") doesn't define it properly that I can see.
It's a very late C20 / early C21 computer technology phrase - because we make models and simulations, and nest things in our computers, we think it is a meaningful concept about our universe.
How would we know our reality is a simulation, vs. e.g. an "alternate dimension"? Or something much subtler that we have no understanding of?
It won't be a "computer" simulation, and I doubt it'll be running on top of a turing machine. There'll be something more interesting and complex going on - perhaps metaphorically analogous to a simulation, but a richer, more alien thing than that.
- mistermann 5y agoTechnically, due to the manner in which the mind renders reality based on crude sensory input, reality as we perceive it is a simulation, of sorts - it just doesn't seem like it because it's kind of our only frame of reference.
- anigbrowl 5y agoAll the world's a simulation, and all the men and women merely objects. They have destructors and constructors; And each one in its run morphs poly times
- lorepieri 5y agoAny complex computational machine is still equivalent to a laptop machine in terms of what it can compute, so it can always reproduced as a regular physics simulation. Something different could be a machine able to do hypercomputation.