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How Do We Know We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation?
- wruza 2y agoWe have concluded that we likely live in a reality where simulations are impossible, yet our entire argument is predicated upon the assumption that simulations are possible. These kinds of contradictions deserve more attention and I see no contradiction here.
- pmdulaney 2y agoWell, not a computer simulation, but a "simulation" hosted in the mind of God.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoSpoiler: this article doesn’t contain the answer. It covers speculation and ongoing work, sourced from various people they asked the same question to. I’m not sure how serious some of these answers are though: > For example, Tom Campbell’s group at ColyPoly is trying to run some experiments to show that that a conscious observer is needed to collapse the quantum probability wave through a series of double-slit eraser experiments Ok this sounds interesting and serious, but the person answering only mentions it in passing. And then a few sentences later… > Stephen Wolfram is working on models which derive physical laws from types of cellular automata and hypergraphs—i.e. computation. I am not sure why cellular automata are the answer to everything. Wolfram has been trying to make them the center of science for 20+ years (see new kind of science). But the mention of them undermines the seriousness of these other explorations that are mentioned.