RE: Simulation Theory
September 30, 2021 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2021 at 12:27 pm by HappySkeptic.)
I don't have Hulu, so can't watch the show.
The information-centric view of Quantum Mechanics lends itself to analogy with a computational system. However, the degree of computation is insanely large. The whole universe is the computer, so it isn't being simulated by another computer (unless everything we think we know is fake, and false information is being piped into our senses at every moment).
I have no philosophical problem with determinism, and that free-will is an illusion. The thing is -- we can't break past the illusion. Our minds are caught within it, and chaos theory precludes us from predicting a mind. The mind becomes its own self-perpetuating effective cause, even though it may be deterministic.
The other problem with determinism is that we have into include quantum mechanics into the equation. If quantum events are truly random (and we can't tell any different), then it is impossible even in principle to predict the future of a chaotic system. It may be fully caused by previous events, but those causes are quantum causes -- i.e. probabilities, not certainties.
The information-centric view of Quantum Mechanics lends itself to analogy with a computational system. However, the degree of computation is insanely large. The whole universe is the computer, so it isn't being simulated by another computer (unless everything we think we know is fake, and false information is being piped into our senses at every moment).
I have no philosophical problem with determinism, and that free-will is an illusion. The thing is -- we can't break past the illusion. Our minds are caught within it, and chaos theory precludes us from predicting a mind. The mind becomes its own self-perpetuating effective cause, even though it may be deterministic.
The other problem with determinism is that we have into include quantum mechanics into the equation. If quantum events are truly random (and we can't tell any different), then it is impossible even in principle to predict the future of a chaotic system. It may be fully caused by previous events, but those causes are quantum causes -- i.e. probabilities, not certainties.
