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If you're assuming each atom is independent of other atoms then yes. But if you believe the universe is deterministic and atoms are just following the laws of p
by soheil 4y ago
If you're assuming each atom is independent of other atoms then yes. But if you believe the universe is deterministic and atoms are just following the laws of physics then you can think of the universe as nothing more than a computer with electrons instead of atoms just floating around.
- bottlepalm 4y agoIt’d be simpler to say there are no atoms, just a neural net fed into your senses making you think that there are atoms. The neural net itself is built on a much simpler substrate in an external universe.
- soheil 4y agoAnd what exactly are your senses and your brain made out of?
- bottlepalm 4y agoIn the sim theory, the external neural net tells us our brain is made of atoms.. you could theoretically feed your senses a Minecraft reality and you'd think your head is full of interacting blocks - which is still capable of performing the same NN functions as a wet brain... So I don't know, the brain could be made out of anything that fits the requirements of running the computation. That's assuming there even really is one - senses can be hijacked, just like in dreams, so we may only think we have a brain - so strange.
- soheil 4y agoWhy then program the brain to try to understand that it's in a simulation when the goal was to create a realistic simulation in the first place? That'd be a rookie mistake on part of the simulation developers.