Is this life real or a simulation? Matthew R Francis Aeon
Very interesting article- not sure there is any real merit... but interesting read none the less...
One of the most disturbing possibilities though is this-
Very interesting article- not sure there is any real merit... but interesting read none the less...
One of the most disturbing possibilities though is this-
Although it doesn't make much sense.. if they can create a computer powerful enough to simulate one giant civilization then surely in the time the simulation has been running they could create hardware orders of magnitude more powerful- just as we do today within 5 or 10 years.Beyond these philosophical implications, the simulation hypothesis could help answer some scientific problems. Since Earth-like planets are not terribly rare, it’s possible enough civilisations have arisen in the Universe that they would be able to communicate or travel between stars. Yet we have not seen any so far, leaving us to wonder: where are the aliens? However, if we live in a simulation, aliens might simply not be part of the program. In fact, it could be the case that one planetary civilisation is all that can be simulated, without running into computational capacity issues.