RE: Living in a sim...
February 8, 2021 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2021 at 10:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that sim theory is a product of getting some math right or wrong. It's misplacing the items in an allegedly informative comparison.
Perhaps our sims look the way they do because they were built in this reality out of components in this reality which behave as they do in this reality. Sims very literally look like something made in this reality, not the other way round - because they are. I know, I know, people think of their favorite game and say "but I can fly in a sim". No you can't. You're presented with a series of moving images which give you the impression of flying, and this reality is full of things which take advantage of human perception - but if you look at the sim itself - the code and the hardware, you'll find that nothing is flying, and nothing is breaking or bending any rule of this reality.
Perhaps our sims look the way they do because they were built in this reality out of components in this reality which behave as they do in this reality. Sims very literally look like something made in this reality, not the other way round - because they are. I know, I know, people think of their favorite game and say "but I can fly in a sim". No you can't. You're presented with a series of moving images which give you the impression of flying, and this reality is full of things which take advantage of human perception - but if you look at the sim itself - the code and the hardware, you'll find that nothing is flying, and nothing is breaking or bending any rule of this reality.
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