Arguments that the universe is a computer simulation(bottomlayer.com)
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To continue the analogy..once we determine we're in a sim, maybe the next step is to figure out if there are any paravirtualization hooks we can use to optimize our universe.
One of the things I always think about is:
Say we determine (definitively) the origin of the universe. Now what?
The following argument even works if your a theist: So lets say god, the flying spaghetti monster, some alien kid in his mothers basement, whatever, creates the universe. If the question we ask ourselves is "How are we here?" then the next logical question has to be "How is the stuff outside of our direct perception here?" And then "How is the stuff outside the stuff outside our direct perception here?" And so on and so forth forever.
It's then that I think to myself: Well then the universe must not work on beginnings and ends, human perception is inherently flawed and the universe is incomprehensible.
Thats a pretty boring answer. So instead lets think about that hypothetical first being to create a simulation of sentient beings. That first being, lets call them Omega, can never be sure that they're Omega. They could themselves also be in a computer simulation. (Thank you Church-Turing.) So even if we are over thinking it and are the only sentient beings in existence, we'll never know it for sure.
Anytime someone mentions the measurement problem I always think of that scene in the matrix when Neo meets the Oracle for the first time.
There is no spoon.