https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/13/elon-musk-the-simulation-video-games/
“We could be somebody’s video game right now. Whose avatar are you?” – Elon Musk
“if reality was a video game, the graphics are great, the plot is terrible and the spawn time is really long.”
.. I think we lost the plot.
“Questions abound about how the various proposals intersect with anthropic reasoning and the infamous multiverse idea. The no-boundary wave function, for instance, favors empty universes, whereas significant matter and energy are needed to power hugeness and complexity. Hawking argued that the vast spread of possible universes permitted by the wave function must all be realized in some larger multiverse, within which only complex universes like ours will have inhabitants capable of making observations. (The recent debate concerns whether these complex, habitable universes will be smooth or wildly fluctuating.) An advantage of the tunneling proposal is that it favors matter- and energy-filled universes like ours without resorting to anthropic reasoning — though universes that tunnel into existence may have other problems.”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-universe-as-cosmic-dashboard/
“Perceived physicality is merely a representation of that surrounding mental environment, brought into being by an act of observation.”
“This doesn’t mean that there is no common environment; it means only that this environment isn’t physical.”
I didn’t realize this was a “thing”.. apparently it’s been happening quite a few times in the animal kingdom. While I realize that evolution isn’t exactly “random” as it’s often driven by environmental factors.. this does still strikes me as odd.
If Elon Musk could ask a superintelligent AI one question.. it would be “What’s outside our simulation?”.
A few thoughts on this..
“I would say it’s somewhere between 50 and 100 percent. I think it’s more likely that we’re in simulation than not.”
While the article doesn’t build a strong case… it does show the theory is being taken more seriously by intellectuals. It also doesn’t really answer any questions, but raises many. I hope we get at least three lives.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/physics-is-pointing-inexorably-to-mind/
“The mental universe exists in mind but not in your personal mind alone. Instead, it is a transpersonal field of mentation that presents itself to us as physicality—with its concreteness, solidity and definiteness—once our personal mental processes interact with it through observation. This mental universe is what physics is leading us to, not the hand-waving word games of information realism.”
TLDR: There is only information, the physical world is just a byproduct, and things are only “real” in our mind.
From the author of this article: The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality
“But Proietti and co’s result suggests that objective reality does not exist. In other words, the experiment suggests that one or more of the assumptions—the idea that there is a reality we can agree on, the idea that we have freedom of choice, or the idea of locality—must be wrong.”
TLDR: They created an experiment to see if two observers could get different results (based on polarized photons).. and the answer is yes. Therefore science is now completely rubbish because experiments can’t be trusted. Can this experiment be trusted?
“The click beetles in my backyard don’t notice that they’re surrounded by intelligent beings — namely my neighbors and me,” Shostak said, “but we’re here, nonetheless.”
TL;DR: We are not alone, we just can’t perceive the super intelligent beings around us, just like bugs in the backyard can’t perceive us.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/quantum-monism-could-save-the-soul-of-physics/
If I understood this correctly.. the idea here is that there is an underlying the multiverse there is fundamental reality that everything is connected to via entanglement. I think.
