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Comment on Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I follow that logic as far as computers today could not simulate this reality. Computers in the far future? What if — and this is a complete ass-pull, so feel free to disregard it as such, but what if — 25,000 years in the future long after the world’s dead and moved on, someone pulled some information on the way we were and made a simulation of it, and you’re one of them, with no memories of life outside, experiencing what this ancient civilisation experienced?
So maybe science types feel they can rule out the explanation because computer science as they know it doesn’t have the capability. But what about alien tech? Future tech?
I’m not a huge fan of the “simulation” theory, but I think ruling it out because it exceeds what we can do now is a bit silly.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Never finished it. Did you just spoil FFX for me?
I always wanted to play FFX-2 because of that one video where Yuna does a concert and her eyes change at the end. I’m sure there’s something significant there but I’ve avoided spoilers this long. These days I don’t really care either way, but I could never get through FFX. Found it boring.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I don’t think they’re ruling out any possibility of other weird ways our universe exists–I think they’ve just ruled out that we’re in a much higher frame rate version of the Sims. Whatever reality is, it’s more “real” than a simulation as we understand it. We could still very well be a cosmic ant farm for a higher form of life, and our universe could be contained in an infinitely large fish bowl, but it’s at least not a bunch of 1s and 0s.
That being said, they’re making some common assumptions. If you want to get really critical, you have to do a Descartes, which turns out to not be very helpful.