Questions about the Simulation Hypothesis

[GenesisNemesis]

To be clear, I am NOT claiming that such simulations are possible, let alone that we are in one.

I'm just suspicious of any claim that they are provably impossible.
IOW, I am agnostic.

It's not necessarily impossible. It's just an unnecessarily complicated explanation compared to the Universe not being a simulation.

 

[Swammerdami]

(In the following "we" means Swammi along with any other humans "lucky" enough to be along for the ride!)

The peculiar claim is that, statistically,

we are PROBABLY in a simulation.​

This reminds me of the hypothesis named after Boltzmann but never seriously espoused by anyone that, statistically,

we are probably brains that arose spontaneously and randomly from cosmic dust.​

In both cases the "refutation" is the belief that there really was some sort of Big Bang.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

If we were in a simulation. what would we observe that would be different?

way more porn

 

[Bronzeage]

If we were in a simulation. what would we observe that would be different?

way more porn

That's an interesting conjecture. A simulation is not real, and porn is not real, so a simulation would have to have more porn.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Also, decently priced healthcare.

 

[Learner]

I could imagine in concept: That our universe (or simulation) broken down to it's smallest fundamental sub-divisible state, (wave, particle or whatever etc.) is like some unfathomable sized 3D TV screen, consisting of a vast ocean of red, green, and blue dots.

The most 'interesting' part would be the images formed on the screen. What I mean here is: The images formed on the screen like our universe, would appear to us as being of a physical nature. We would call this physical thing matter.

One thing for sure we do know of the TV screen is that the Images were made by a thinking process. The Images on screen have written rules to maintain various forms and shapes retaining a variety of unique (visual) properties, that distinguishes between various images with individual identities (for lack of articulated vocabulary).

 

[Jarhyn]

One thing for sure we do know of the TV screen is that the Images were made by a thinking process

Tell that to the static between the stations.

 

[Learner]

One thing for sure we do know of the TV screen is that the Images were made by a thinking process

Tell that to the static between the stations.

Yes, I will thanks.

"Static...the stations 'fine tuned', exist within you!"

 

[unapologetic]

is like some unfathomable sized 3D TV screen, consisting of a vast ocean of red, green, and blue dots.

How about about: Electrons, Protons, Nutrons?
Maybe it's a 4 dot screen: Strong Nuclar, Weak Nuclar, Electro/Magnetic, Gravity.
Is it a live picture, or a recorded program (on tape)?

 

[Learner]

is like some unfathomable sized 3D TV screen, consisting of a vast ocean of red, green, and blue dots.

How about about: Electrons, Protons, Nutrons?
Maybe it's a 4 dot screen: Strong Nuclar, Weak Nuclar, Electro/Magnetic, Gravity.

Yes, all of those things could be used as the same example.

Is it a live picture, or a recorded program (on tape)?

(Interesting you come up with recorded program (for another topic perhaps), but I used to imagine there was some relationship between 'electro magnetic fields' and people seeing ghosts or images of the past).