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I’ve always felt that the universe is the simplest representation of itself. As such, ‘twouldn’t seem to add much to require it be a simulation.
There is much more to know in physics (given that we cannot explain dark matter, dark energy, and the whole quantum multiple state problem....to list a few things popping around the professional mags nowadays.
We appear to be at a similar situation to that at the beginning of the 20th century - when it appeared that only a few i’s had to be dotted and t’s crossed in order to explain life, the universe, and everything. Turns out the answer then was 42, and drat, the darned number was not even prime. Bummer.
Trippin’ hard aren’t they?
Hmm...I think that Occam’s Razor nullifies this thesis. Isn’t a robot overlord explanation more complicated than a loving, sentient, creator of whom we are created in His image?
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Amazing...the contortions some people will go through to avoid God, and the idea of standards to live up to...or face personal judgment.
But each to his own, right? (For a little while, yet.)
If you think about it, the Universe is like a giant processor full of randomness, optimizations and logic.
Then add “self-aware” beings and the process goes to an entirely different level.
One of my theories is that WE ARE a processor for something that we cannot comprehend
It’s not inconceivable that you can feed “data” into the Universe at one end and come up with an “output” at the other end based on all the logical laws/properties (time, matter, gravity, energy, etc).
The process seems slow to us, but to another observer a billion years may be like one nanosecond!
Behold the Void, it is not the void of nothingness,
but thine own intellect blissful and shining...
This would explain that bit in Revelation and Isaiah about the heavens being rolled up like a scroll.
If we were a computer simulation we would observe glitches in reality analogous to those found in computer games.
So our world is just some robots ant farm? Does that mean the robot is God?
well... that was 5 minutes of my life I will never get back
Amazing that there are almost no theories that are considered too ridiculous to even consider. Naturally, I have to qualify my comment with the word “almost” because there is no way that many scientists would ever give ANY serious consideration to an intelligent design theory to explain the creation of the universe.
Just ask them, and I’d sure they’d say “God forbid ... um, er, I mean - no way.”