Posted on 04/07/2019 4:28:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
>>Tyson adds, “We don’t think of ourselves as deities when we program Mario, even though we have power over how high Mario jumps. There’s no reason to think they’re all-powerful just because they control everything we do.”
When I was in engineering, the ROM BIOS developers saw themselves as gods.
One of my favorite authors, and his book
The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky
is Fantastic!
And although quite a few years old, the book is Very Timely!
A radio program from years ago was telling how a missionary flight from Earth went to save the souls on a distant planet. A planet native said, “Yes, we know your salvation story. On our planet, Adam and Eve said, ‘No.’”
Marvin Olasky =
He became an atheist in adolescence and a Marxist in college, ultimately joining the Communist Party USA in 1972. He left the Communist Party late in 1973 and in 1976 became a Christian after reading the New Testament and a number of Christian authors.
To know that God can (and does) dictate the velocity and location of each sub-atomic particle in the universe is humbly reassuring.
That the Creator God is also concerned (and in love) with each person He created is what's really mind-blowing.
And Marvin Olasky's publication "World" magazine is a real gem - if you haven't read it, give it a try.
we’re living in the matrix?? how can i hack the program and get more stuff? a ‘66 ferrari Daytona would ne cool
“I think, therefore, I am”, Descartes.
Does anyone believes that “Mario” in the video game is saying the same thing? If they do, they are insane.
Billions of galaxies. “In my Father’s house there are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you”....comes to mind.
Simulated Universe. An infinity of Alternate Universes. The Universe popping in and out of existence. The Multiverse.
All wrong. There is one Universe.
Well worth watching for SciFi fans IMHo.
Consciousness is a simulation.
Everything we experience is a recreation inside our heads, including our perception of the Universe.
“We in this universe can create simulated worlds and there’s nothing remotely spooky about that. Our creator isn’t especially spooky, it’s just some teenage hacker in the next universe up.”
In that case, who created the universe in which that teenage hacker lives?
CS Lewis’s Space Trilogy has much the same starting point.
The reason I don’t accept that the Universe is a simulation is closely related to the reason I don’t believe it is the work of a supernatural intelligence. The demonstration of quantum entanglement and its proof that the observed behavior can not be attributed to “hidden variables” means that any simulation would need to be able to transmit information faster than the speed of light. Since the simulation would also be subject to this limit it would be impossible to simulate. The other part of the argument is that quantum behavior like radioactive decay is truly random in time unlike any other deterministic behavior like coin tossing whose randomness is really just due to our ignorance of all the forces and initial conditions that preceded the observation of heads or tails. God would of course know whether the coin would come up heads or tails but even He could never know when a neutron would decay in a radioactive material. If there is information in the system that is beyond even God then He can’t be the supreme being and the creator of everything. There would have to be higher laws or principles that even He was subject to.
Kinda makes me think of Aquinas’s 5 proofs of God, at least some of them!
‘It takes omniscience and omnipotence to create a universe almost unimaginably huge, with billions and billions of stars.’
yeah, and be sure to add a generous measure of pixie dust as well...
I personally find the possibility we are in a simulation to be extremely distasteful but I do see the depressing “logic” of it: since the number of simulations is likely to be vastly greater than the number of real universes, basic probability puts us in a matrix.
There are only two ways out of this “logic”:
1. God created the universe. Period. End of story. Nothing else needed. Except, of course to have a relationship with and/or understanding of God, as much as is possible.
2. There is an infinite Multiverse. Not just a Multiverse but an infinite Multiverse, such as a Type 2 Multiverse discussed by Mac Tegmark or a string theory landscape Multiverse with all variations of the landscape repeating an infinite number of times. The key word here is infinite. Infinite erases improbability, specifically the improbability of not living in a simulation, also the improbability of not being the first sentient species in our galaxy and the improbability of not being at an early point in human history.
So to me, there’s either a god or a Multiverse (and maybe those aren’t mutually exclusive).
——There is one Universe.-——
For each star
I’ve always thought of our 3 spacial dimensions as a playpen that keeps our sin from poluting the higher dimensions
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