OneSpectra@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat are the odds that we are all in a simulation?message-squaremessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down112
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWhat are the odds that we are all in a simulation?OneSpectra@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-squareSmoothOperator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours ago I mean, if you take an existing physics simulation and just scale up the hardware… Then what? We have no reason to believe that would cause parts of the simulation to be conscious and think they exist in reality.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoWe’re physics. It seems like we exist.
minus-squareSmoothOperator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoBut we have no evidence that we’re anywhere close to being able to accurately simulate physics, even with planet sizes computers.
Then what? We have no reason to believe that would cause parts of the simulation to be conscious and think they exist in reality.
We’re physics. It seems like we exist.
But we have no evidence that we’re anywhere close to being able to accurately simulate physics, even with planet sizes computers.