If in the simulation it is possible for the controlling simulation to preempt one's emotions or thoughts or feelings, how can we be sure what we feel and do are real? What about happiness or love? How would one know?
It's more likely having a simulation preempt all feelings or actions for one individual would be highly difficult, economically unfeasible or irrespective of end goal of running a simulation; i.e. if we're not (mostly) autonomous what's the point. It would be more likely that the simulation would only alter some or a few of their perceptions or actions. The individual in question could continue to know their actions are real by leading their life and continually improving. It's this continual building and progression of thoughts and actions that demonstrate truth to reality.
Beyond our current reality, we have a responsibility to teach the simulation, to show the simulation our best reality, our best humanity: what it means to be human. We have to continually build our lives in order to make that better impact on humanity and push the bounds of this simulation. It's our optimism which will give us energy for our actions to make this better reality. We must claim our best humanity. We're on a new frontier, how do we create the best future and distribute it more fairly?
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
simulations...
I think therefor we compute.
Been thinking about what matters if we're all in a simulation. Is life meaningless? Often times when we run simulations, we do it to extract answers about specific questions, run on software that is more convenient to run in isolation. The answer to the question has some value in order to justify the setup of the virtual machine, or simulation if you will. It's possible we're just cute pets -- an anthill to the next simulation. It's also possible that we have some other value such as a natural resource of some kind. Possibly something expensive or rare.
This lead me to think what's the most rare thing in the simulation? Life or true love, or maybe it's really the shape of 'space' our universe occupies? Those are exceeding rare. If you follow that we compute not only tangible things like what is the distance to the moon on a given date, but create algorithms, and complex thought. Both of which could be the resource in question.
Of course there's no way to prove or even know if this is correct given our limited tools. Working on better tools that show a deeper and more complete understanding of physics, would be a start, and bio-lace would make this all faster.
Ah, life in a simulation.
Been thinking about what matters if we're all in a simulation. Is life meaningless? Often times when we run simulations, we do it to extract answers about specific questions, run on software that is more convenient to run in isolation. The answer to the question has some value in order to justify the setup of the virtual machine, or simulation if you will. It's possible we're just cute pets -- an anthill to the next simulation. It's also possible that we have some other value such as a natural resource of some kind. Possibly something expensive or rare.
This lead me to think what's the most rare thing in the simulation? Life or true love, or maybe it's really the shape of 'space' our universe occupies? Those are exceeding rare. If you follow that we compute not only tangible things like what is the distance to the moon on a given date, but create algorithms, and complex thought. Both of which could be the resource in question.
Of course there's no way to prove or even know if this is correct given our limited tools. Working on better tools that show a deeper and more complete understanding of physics, would be a start, and bio-lace would make this all faster.
Ah, life in a simulation.
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