Are we all just part of a gigantic computer simulation?

Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Are we all just part of a gigantic computer simulation?

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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 662 Credit: 62,384 RAC: 89	Message 1143488 - Posted: 21 Aug 2011, 16:10:37 UTC
	Recently, on an episode of Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" about the existence of God one of the scientists talked about the likelyhood that we are all characters in a computer simulation. One of his reasons for postulating this is the projection that within 20 years computers will be advanced enough to run such a simulation. I think this is different from the situation in a story like the Matrix where there was a one to one correlation to a body in stasis to a person in the matrix. While it was an interesting hypothesis I think it is not the case. If I found out I was programmed to have the body I've been stuck with for 62 years I would be very pissed off at my programmer. ____________ Bob DeWoody
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Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 11987 Credit: 18,182,251 RAC: 56,439	Message 1143524 - Posted: 21 Aug 2011, 17:27:34 UTC - in response to Message 1143488.
	If I found out I was programmed to have the body I've been stuck with for 62 years I would be very pissed off at my programmer. The Programmer in the Matrix never designed our bodies. The code was designed to allow us to create our own through what they called in the movie as Residual Self Image. As to whether we are all just programs in some elaborately designed obfuscation device, I suppose you have to consider whether Descartes or other Marxist Anarchist or Nihilistic existentialist idealisms.
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kenzieB Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3916 Credit: 1,578,136 RAC: 674	Message 1143547 - Posted: 21 Aug 2011, 18:31:43 UTC
	Dog as a computer programmer. Actually, that would explain a lot. :P ____________
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Q Send message Joined: 15 Jun 04 Posts: 216 Credit: 329,924 RAC: 0	Message 1143556 - Posted: 21 Aug 2011, 18:55:33 UTC - in response to Message 1143488.
	Wasn’t this public knowledge? http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/earth.shtml Regards ;-) PK
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22809 Credit: 4,530,086 RAC: 5,683	Message 1143562 - Posted: 21 Aug 2011, 19:17:21 UTC
	Of course not. We were all bribed with double pan-galactic-gargleblasters to keep it quiet! Hic.
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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10331 Credit: 5,104,174 RAC: 6,269	Message 1143572 - Posted: 21 Aug 2011, 19:53:07 UTC - in response to Message 1143488.
	Could be. It has been proven that a program running on a simulator can't know if it is running on a simulator or real hardware. So we are all just different parts of God's dream! ____________
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Dr Imaginario Send message Joined: 10 Aug 11 Posts: 172 Credit: 22,735 RAC: 0	Message 1143926 - Posted: 22 Aug 2011, 17:13:40 UTC
	This story is sure like the Matrix.... Maybe this Forum is also a computer simulation.... look out for the bad guys :) I will look for trinity LOL Now, that theory is more literature based than in cientific facts
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Orgil Send message Joined: 3 Aug 05 Posts: 922 Credit: 99,886 RAC: 209	Message 1144299 - Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 14:24:03 UTC
	Some parallel universe theory hypothesizes that our universe could be holographic projection, I guess many read that. ____________ Mandtugai!
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22809 Credit: 4,530,086 RAC: 5,683	Message 1144315 - Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 15:02:32 UTC
	The other theory says that our universe is only a speck of dust in the eye of someone in another universe.
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kenzieB Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3916 Credit: 1,578,136 RAC: 674	Message 1144418 - Posted: 24 Aug 2011, 3:19:49 UTC - in response to Message 1144315.
	The other theory says that our universe is only a speck of dust in the eye of someone in another universe. A sort of a turtles all the way down theory. :P ____________
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22809 Credit: 4,530,086 RAC: 5,683	Message 1144989 - Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 14:56:09 UTC
	A sort of a turtles all the way down theory. :P Yep, but don't forget the necessary elephants .... ;-)) ____________ Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan, Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, PETA Member, 1st Childhood
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Orgil Send message Joined: 3 Aug 05 Posts: 922 Credit: 99,886 RAC: 209	Message 1145402 - Posted: 26 Aug 2011, 15:30:12 UTC
	Also another crazy theory (was that from Hawking?) suggested that our imaginable size of universe could be included in a black hole. ____________ Mandtugai!
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Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Are we all just part of a gigantic computer simulation?