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Is it possible we are living in a simulation?

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  • @NeuM : speak for yourself! I’m going to live forever, or die in the attempt! ;)

  • @NeuM said:

    @wim said:

    @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    Time to stop torturing my mind with all these possible explanations. I’m pulling out the Occam's Razor card and will settle for this:

    @NeuM said:
    I know it’s the preferred theory of both Elon Musk and Scott Adams, but the human brain is a complex organ that helps us interpret and frame reality in order to keep us alive long enough to reproduce. That’s it. That’s the purpose of life.

    Then why do we keep living so gawd awful long after we reproduce? Such waste!

    Through most of human existence the average lifespan was in the 20-30 year old range.

    This is a common view but it is based on a misunderstanding actually. Low lifespan statistics in the past mostly reflected the massive rate of infant and childhood mortality. People who survived childhood lived much longer than to the age of 30 average - depending of course on circumstances of a particular era, whether they were free or enslaved, rich or poor and so on.

  • @Gavinski said:

    @NeuM said:

    @wim said:

    @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    Time to stop torturing my mind with all these possible explanations. I’m pulling out the Occam's Razor card and will settle for this:

    @NeuM said:
    I know it’s the preferred theory of both Elon Musk and Scott Adams, but the human brain is a complex organ that helps us interpret and frame reality in order to keep us alive long enough to reproduce. That’s it. That’s the purpose of life.

    Then why do we keep living so gawd awful long after we reproduce? Such waste!

    Through most of human existence the average lifespan was in the 20-30 year old range.

    This is a common view but it is based on a misunderstanding actually. Low lifespan statistics in the past mostly reflected the massive rate of infant and childhood mortality. People who survived childhood lived much longer than to the age of 30 average - depending of course on circumstances of a particular era, whether they were free or enslaved, rich or poor and so on.

    For more, see here:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/

    This is not going back to prehistoric times but I am pretty sure I remember reading something similar about earlier periods too, probably in Jared Diamond's book on traditional societies

  • @Grandbear said:
    I'm curious since I have zero experience with VR: does the rendering (both in terms of resolution and FPS) have to be very realistic for one to get immersed in it or do you at some point just embrace it however crude it is?

    That's the strange thing. The answer is no. Even cartoonish games can be immersive to a degree.
    On the other hand you get games like Half Life Alyx which is intended to look as realistic as it can and the immersion can be extreme.

  • edited April 2023

    @Svetlovska said:
    @HotStrange: Funny you should say that.

    Woah this looks interesting! Love that art style.

  • @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    Time to stop torturing my mind with all these possible explanations. I’m pulling out the Occam's Razor card and will settle for this:

    @NeuM said:
    I know it’s the preferred theory of both Elon Musk and Scott Adams, but the human brain is a complex organ that helps us interpret and frame reality in order to keep us alive long enough to reproduce. That’s it. That’s the purpose of life.

    What about people who don't have (or want) kids?

  • @NeuM : well, that’s me screwed then.

  • My point of view is this

    We don’t know if we’re living in a simulation, we have no way of telling – we’re actually mainly concerned with who is doing this simulating

    If we’re in a simulation, who set it up? That’s more the concern than whether or not this is a simulation, which doesn’t matter

    I don’t think we’re in a simulation, I don’t think there’s someone ‘out there’ running a simulation, why would they simulate it, why not actually be it for real? Simulating life is pointless, it’s easier and less expensive to actually do it

    On the other hand, it could be regarded as everything everywhere is only a simulation, not run by anyone at all, not even running, there’s no such thing as reality, no such thing as time, and it could be described as a bundled compressed description of life — that’s what the universe is ‘living’ — simply the tight prearranged possibility of life, which implies a deterministic description of all of life in one, and if it’s deterministic, a superhuman AI could possibly run inferences across many parallel attention networks and produce output that relates to not only the present and past but the future

    What if, in the future, we asked an emergent Superhuman AI what will happen, and it correctly described it, and it went on to describe a lot of things which will happen, so that it is breaking past the boundary of temporally occluded asymmetrical information

    Having that happen would not surprise me in the least

  • @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @tyslothrop1 said:
    Which pill would you like, red or blue?

    Indica. 😂

    Yes, one for me too, please. Might help wrapping my head around those heavy (meta) physics.:)

  • I haven't watched all the videos posted here, but are there any signs that we are living in a simulation?

  • Gnosticism for tech bros. Definitely a possibility, but so are other scenarios.

  • @Simon said:

    @SevenSystems said:
    This is about taking mankind a major evolutionary step further,

    Why do we need to do that?

    Because that's what human curiosity has always been about. Humans are explorers. With the "Why do we need to explore and leave" mindset, we'd still be sitting in caves. (Maybe that would be better, but that's another discussion entirely!)

  • @wim said:

    @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    Time to stop torturing my mind with all these possible explanations. I’m pulling out the Occam's Razor card and will settle for this:

    @NeuM said:
    I know it’s the preferred theory of both Elon Musk and Scott Adams, but the human brain is a complex organ that helps us interpret and frame reality in order to keep us alive long enough to reproduce. That’s it. That’s the purpose of life.

    Then why do we keep living so gawd awful long after we reproduce? Such waste!

    That's "collateral damage" caused by medical progress. Not long ago in evolutionary terms, humans DID die shortly after reproducing 😉

  • Onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat
    (Burden of proof)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

  • @SevenSystems said:

    @Simon said:

    @SevenSystems said:
    This is about taking mankind a major evolutionary step further,

    Why do we need to do that?

    Because that's what human curiosity has always been about. Humans are explorers. With the "Why do we need to explore and leave" mindset, we'd still be sitting in caves. (Maybe that would be better, but that's another discussion entirely!)

    I don't think that sitting in a cave is much fun, but I'm not so sure we should be blasting off on Elon's rockets and messing up the rest of the universe.

    As for "Humans are explorers", I'm not sure that we are. There are always a few brave souls who explore but most of us just want a quiet life.

  • We are back to sitting in caves. We can just communicate between them now.

  • I’m not convinced we’re conscious

    I believe we think we’re conscious because (from what I can ascertain) the loudest most dominant current dorsal attention network in our brain is shouting at everything else that it is the conscious one, and that coupled with a very short term memory of such transactions gives the illusion of consciousness

    But every night we go to sleep and lose this illusion of consciousness

    Every night (in general)

    At the point of falling asleep, we’re unaware of it, we’re aware of not having fallen asleep, but we’re not aware of the transition into sleep at all – that’s totally obliterated (or never got there) from our ‘conscious’ memory

    When we wake up we stitch together the memory of who we are from yesterday with who we find ourself to be today, although arguably the memory from yesterday backward could just as well be a synthesised implant of [all that memory] in one go to make it seem like you’ve lived a life as opposed to started this morning

    Biologically, how far back into development of life with a brain and a memory do we have to go to find life that processes sensory input from the outside world and translates this into action through agency within the outside world, and has memory, yet might not have anything like a ‘conscious’ process in order to do what it does?

    Any animal? Arguably all animals have potential to host a conscious process, which possibly implies that it is tokenising sensory input in order to set up forthcoming action, this alone is a kind of ‘language’ (not necessarily verbal – not necessarily involving sounds made and then heard through ears) and consequently their world model is quite possibly a bounded large(ish) language model

  • @u0421793 said:
    I’m not convinced we’re conscious

    So, if you're not conscious that means you never need to buy another iOS music app ever again.... right?

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    @Simon said:

    @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    Time to stop torturing my mind with all these possible explanations. I’m pulling out the Occam's Razor card and will settle for this:

    @NeuM said:
    I know it’s the preferred theory of both Elon Musk and Scott Adams, but the human brain is a complex organ that helps us interpret and frame reality in order to keep us alive long enough to reproduce. That’s it. That’s the purpose of life.

    What about people who don't have (or want) kids?

    They didn’t fulfill their duty. But it doesn’t matter because they won’t reproduce, so their faulty traits won’t get passed on.

    ^ I think my reply sounds harsh and I don’t want believe it, but it’s the only reason I can think of in order to defend the original, oversimplified belief that I settled on.
    Thanks for sullying my temporary contentment of thinking that I needn’t ponder about this any more. 🙄

  • In some way we really "live" in simulation. Or to be more exact - our brain builds for us model of world outside which is what we actually "see" - most of information brain processes for exampel to build image we "see" goes not directly from eyes BUT f rom part of brain where is actually store information what we saw before.

    Brain literally runs simulated model of worlds outside and then just updates data from sensory inputs.

    extremely interesting:

  • wimwim
    edited April 2023

    @Simon said:
    As for "Humans are explorers", I'm not sure that we are. There are always a few brave souls who explore but most of us just want a quiet life.

    I agree. Sure, there's curiosity, but major feats of exploration have historically been driven purely by pressure on the ability to survive. Or greed. Or more recently simply ego.

    [edit] OK, maybe there are some people with a hunger to explore but I bet they're a very tiny minority. Those are the ones used by others to seek out new territories to exploit. Cynical, I know, but I'd bet historically provable.

  • @u0421793 said:
    I’m not convinced we’re conscious

    You can’t doubt you are conscious because doubt is itself a type of conscious intention

  • @SealTeamSick said:

    @u0421793 said:
    I’m not convinced we’re conscious

    You can’t doubt you are conscious because doubt is itself a type of conscious intention

    Can a person dream that they doubt something?

  • @SealTeamSick said:

    @u0421793 said:
    I’m not convinced we’re conscious

    You can’t doubt you are conscious because doubt is itself a type of conscious intention

    I doubt that.

  • @cyberheater said:

    @Grandbear said:
    I'm curious since I have zero experience with VR: does the rendering (both in terms of resolution and FPS) have to be very realistic for one to get immersed in it or do you at some point just embrace it however crude it is?

    That's the strange thing. The answer is no. Even cartoonish games can be immersive to a degree.
    On the other hand you get games like Half Life Alyx which is intended to look as realistic as it can and the immersion can be extreme.

    👍 nice, I see if I can give something a try this year

  • @dendy said:
    In some way we really "live" in simulation. Or to be more exact - our brain builds for us model of world outside which is what we actually "see" - most of information brain processes for exampel to build image we "see" goes not directly from eyes BUT f rom part of brain where is actually store information what we saw before.

    Brain literally runs simulated model of worlds outside and then just updates data from sensory inputs.

    extremely interesting:

    I can't watch the video in my location, is it about saccadic eye movement? When I read about it in this twitter thread some time ago I found it fascinating, especially the "experiment" with analog clocks:

  • @u0421793 said:
    Can a person dream that they doubt something?

    Who is observing the dream?

  • @cyberheater said:

    @u0421793 said:
    Can a person dream that they doubt something?

    Who is observing the dream?

    Nobody

    Nothing exists until you wake up

  • @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    They didn’t fulfill their duty.

    Duty to who...?

  • @mjcouche said:

    @Poppadocrock said:
    Nothing is absolute.

    Is that an absolute fact?

    Absolutely, lol.

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