Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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• confuser@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The simulation idea doesn’t work only because people apply it incorrectly. Our brains do in fact create our experiences with no contact to the world outside our bodies, its our sensory organs that give data to the brain to create our perception of experiencing things.

  We are all partly made of simulators, but knowing this changes nothing for each of us since we can start associating ourselves with a larger force of nature that happens when we group ourselves together for changes we want to see in the world.

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Our brains do in fact create our experiences with no contact to the world outside our bodies, its our sensory organs that give data to the brain to create our perception of experiencing things.

    Ehhh… The claim that there’s a clear delineation between the central and peripheral nervous system is generally just a byproduct of how we teach anatomy. The more we understand about cognitive science and anatomy in general, the further we get away from the old understanding of the cns when it was treated almost like a computer that runs a machine.

    I think it kinda depends on how you define an experience, but you’re kinda edging into an old debate known as the mind body problem in cognitive science and philosophy.

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    • confuser@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      None of that suggests this can’t be the case though.

      What I’m saying is that for example, dreams are not real, and yet they can and often are indistinguishable from reality, many even have dreams where they are aware they are dreaming and can control them the same way we can control what we do while awake.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will prove that we’re not in a simulation:

  If we’re in a simulation then whoever is operating it would not want us to know if we’re in a simulation or not.

  Anyone trying to check if we’re in a simulation or not would be stopped by the operator.

  I wasn’t stopped by an operator hence there is no operator and we’re not in a simulation.

  Q.E.D.

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  • svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Um, why? As a general rule, the point of running a simulation is to find out what happens under some circumstances where you don’t know what happens. If you’re imposing conditions like that, then you aren’t so much running a simulation as you are running some kind of procedural generation.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m kidding but since we’re just playing I would say:

      Let’s imagine you want to know who will win the next election. You create detailed simulation of the entire population and run it until the voting day to see how they will vote. If the simulated population realized they are in a simulation the will obviously start behaving in a different way then the real population thus making your simulation useless.

      So I would say unless the goal of the simulation is to see how fast will it realize it’s just a simulation you would try to avoid them finding out.

      Then again, checking if people will realize they are in a simulation is a valid reason to simulate them so it’s possible we’re in a simulation that is supposed to find out it’s a simulation…

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