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My impression is that anything you can simulate via a program could just as well be the fundamental laws of physics -- and vice versa. The idea behind this lin
by tylerneylon 14y ago
My impression is that anything you can simulate via a program could just as well be the fundamental laws of physics -- and vice versa.
The idea behind this line of inquiry - which I hope is continued - seems to be assuming that, if we are simulated, then we are simulated using a similar computation model to our own, and using data structures that we would have come up with ourselves. I don't have better suggestions for which model to use, but it's good to keep in mind that even if one model of a simulation fails to match our physics, then there may just as well be another that does match it.
- electrograv 14y agoIt looks like for a long time we've suspected this strange relationship between our own mathematical inventions (a computer simulation is just a machine that applies a discrete mathematical model), and the universe itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_... It certainly is a mystery. I persnally believe this mystery is logically equivalent to the question "what is existence?" Whether this question is answerable or not, I can't say.