One practical differance, if this is indeed a video game, is that we might be able to create a virus within it that enables us to do just about anything: Change a primary law of operation, modify the code of a pile of junk to create gold, perhaps change our body structure? Many very practical uses, assuming we don't get deleted by creating the virus.
It is completely possible that what we know as physics is really just a program of some sort. Those of faith (who make up a significant portion of human population) seem to think that some force beyond our comprehension is controlling us. I cannot imagine so many people to be stupid enough to have faith without any reason... so it is possible evidence for the theory.
Perhaps we are not a computer though... we are reffering to highly intelligent beings when we hold the premise that we are a simulation: computers may be outdated for such creatures.
The 'big bang' isn't overly complex and unnecessary (What does frugality have to do with this?)??? Just as that is a theory, with only a little observed evidence to support it (to my knowledge), string theory is also one, and that has even less observable evidence to back it up. THe fact that more than 3/4ths of the worlds population seem to think there is some sort of creator i veiw as far more full of value than galaxys moving away from us. THey are probably wrong too... but isn't skepticism to not believe anything fully without it having being proven beyond all reasonable doubt?
I do not say it is likely that we are a computer simulation... i do however, believe it is possible.
It is completely possible that what we know as physics is really just a program of some sort. Those of faith (who make up a significant portion of human population) seem to think that some force beyond our comprehension is controlling us. I cannot imagine so many people to be stupid enough to have faith without any reason... so it is possible evidence for the theory.
Perhaps we are not a computer though... we are reffering to highly intelligent beings when we hold the premise that we are a simulation: computers may be outdated for such creatures.
The 'big bang' isn't overly complex and unnecessary (What does frugality have to do with this?)??? Just as that is a theory, with only a little observed evidence to support it (to my knowledge), string theory is also one, and that has even less observable evidence to back it up. THe fact that more than 3/4ths of the worlds population seem to think there is some sort of creator i veiw as far more full of value than galaxys moving away from us. THey are probably wrong too... but isn't skepticism to not believe anything fully without it having being proven beyond all reasonable doubt?
I do not say it is likely that we are a computer simulation... i do however, believe it is possible.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
