We Live In A Computer Simulated Matrix — Here's The Scientific Proof

[dlevere]

Suppose you spent your whole life as a character in the computer game The Sims. You would have no idea that the world around you wasn’t real and was really just a computer game.

But suppose one day one of your fellow Sims, a scientist, while trying to discover the physics of your world, stumbled upon elements of the source code of the very game you were in.

Here you are living a normal life, and then you find much to your astonishment that you are in fact living in a video game inside a computer.

Life in a Computer Simulated Matrix

[nensondubois]

Now, we have to find out whether or not the people who created our simulation are living in a simulation, or were created by a deity.

[bungholio]

I only watched the first video and it genuinely meant nothing to me. "I found computer code in the math in nature blah blah blah" sounded pointless to me. People still say we are a holographic universe too, and maybe there's even layers upon layers of created worlds, good luck proving it and making it even sound like it should mean anything to us.

[dlevere]

One In Billion Chance Were Not Living In Computer Simulation

Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in some advanced civilization's video game

Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation

Recode's annual Code Conference

[dlevere]

Tech Billionaires Now Asking Scientists To Help Break Humans Out Of The Computer Simulation We Might Be Trapped In

[Pyriel]

I wonder if this is a new fallacy, or if we've already defined something that covers this weird idea that something currently hypothetical could be inevitable in the future, therefore someone more advanced did it in the past.

This thing has sort of a Distant Starlight problem to it too. That is, if a deity created a universe with starlight already in transit, and forged other evidence that gives the appearance of age, then we can't really learn anything about the universe because all the physical evidence lies about its history, and whatever rules we think we've found exist only at the pleasure of something we can't discover. By the same token, if we live in a simulation we can't detect, and you want to find evidence of that, or determine who's responsible for it, there's essentially no way to do it unless those responsible are somehow incompetent.

[bungholio]

By the same token, if we live in a simulation we can't detect, and you want to find evidence of that, or determine who's responsible for it, there's essentially no way to do it unless those responsible are somehow incompetent.

I quit this train of thought years ago because of that simple little thing. If something managed to create some crazy simulation and that's all we are, what makes you think you're going to find the evidence and find a way out considering we can never seem to stop finding new and complex stuff? It would be like No Man's Sky but seems infinitely more complex, and if somebody made us in our simulation what are the odds you'll find a tiny glitch or bug or anything that helps you prove anything a way out, and what is this outer world? What would you even be escaping out of this simulation into? Just go with the flow in life. I suppose you never know until you try, we could be somebody's ongoing project and they wandered off and aren't paying attention and maybe we could get something, but I doubt somebody's going to pull some kind of agent smith thing and escape into that world, and our time would be irrelevant to them the same way me using the debugger for the PS3 to stop and resume the game wouldn't make the characters aware that anything ever stopped for an instant on the PS3. And for whatever that world is, what makes you think they aren't a simulation or similar creation too? Unknowingly this could be an endless series or worlds nested within worlds with no getting to the real world and various worlds within unaware they are not real either. In the end, who cares? Go with the flow and try to enjoy your life.

About the only thing I could think of that might be worth worrying about is the creator's intention and creating a world of your own within that world and hopefully keeping it concealed, which leads to worlds nested within worlds assuming you're able to genuinely create and hide it somehow from those who were brilliant enough to create you and your world.

I'd be more interested if somebody somehow found there's a genuine solipsist in this world, but if there was and they weren't aware they were the solipsist, it'd probably be better left unknown to them unless you're a risky person and try to control the solipsist to control the universe.




And who on Earth is Elon Musk? That name is everywhere on the internet constantly and has something to do with self driving vehicles and whatever tech stuff. Is he some idiot that got lucky and runs successful businesses and say crazy things to get attention or is he somebody with an actual brain worth paying attention to?

[Pyriel]

Yeah, it's an interesting philosophical discussion, and not at all unique, if you consider computer simulations and dreams or the like analogous.

Elon Musk is kind of the apotheosis of the Serial Entrepreneur. He started a company that merged with another and became the Paypal juggernaut we all know and love(you'll often hear him referred to as a co-founder of Paypal). When he left that he started up several other companies including Tesla motors, Space X and a company I forget the name of that deals in solar. Although, I think that last one is just a manufacturer of storage batteries, and their big innovation is making refrigerator-sized storage cells capable of powering a home moderately affordable.

After the Paypal thing, which may or may not have been mostly luck, I don't know how many of his start-ups have actually been successful. Tesla does pretty low volume, but on the surface seems to be a going concern, despite a couple of major recalls. Space X is at least successful in terms of being a private space program that can actually get rockets into space and back. I don't think the solar thing has really gone anywhere yet, but I don't know for sure. Still, just with the Paypal thing he has infinity percent more successes than the usual person who gets the title "serial entrepreneur" applied to them.

He also has a reputation for being the smartest guy in any room, but I'm not sure about that. Every time I've heard him talk it's the sort of part-science, part-philosophy stuff that makes Matrix aficionados break out in spontaneous erections. He seems like he's pretty sharp. I just reckon he's more the money and passion behind some of his more recent projects than he is the brains.