Are We Living in a Simulation?

Also reminds me of the Ship in a Bottle episode of Star Trek: TNG, where they trick Dr. Moriarty into thinking that he was successfully transported off of the holodeck and was exploring the galaxy in a shuttlecraft.

One fascinating argument in favor of the possibility that we are living in a simulation is based on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Recent experiments appear to have demonstrated that something we haven't measured does actually exist in all possible quantum states simultaneously until we measure it. In other words, the master computer conserves resources by simply not rendering the object/particle until someone attempts to measure it. That's the nutshell version. On a related note, it would be very wacky indeed to imagine that your closet doesn't exist until you open it!

Ken, what about the human eye? Does it break down to individual pixels at the smallest unit? Maybe. The eye has about 7 million color receptors, or cones, that see light in Red, Green, and Blue. Most animals have only Green and Blue, but many fish species have 4 cones. They not only see RGB, but many have an infrared cone. Also, our Fova is offset by about 2 degrees from the Retna in each eye, and causes us to have a blind spot in our eyesight. Our eyesight is not perfect. And that is what I think is the issue. We do not see exactly what we look at. Although it happens fast, what our Brian sees is a collaboration and a "best guess" where based on past experience fills in what should be there. Our brains are so good at its job that our sight seems perfect. And I think it is that biological flaw that means we are not in a matrix, but living in reality. However, reality even to our own sight can be subjective because of how the brain puts the image together. It does this by transferring what each eye sees to the left side of the brain and compares the two frames of sight because I don't have a better way to explain it. Sometimes things happen so fast that due to the time it takes our eyes to see and the brain to process what it saw, the brain does fill in parts from memory. I know that's not as scientific as my last post, but I've studied planetary objects and variable stars, and not astrobiology, which I am studying now. And as a computer scientist by education and years doing research, I would think that if we were living in a matrix, everyone's sight would be 20-20. Granted, an argument can be made that when we touch something, we really never get to touch the actual object, but we feel. This is part of Quantum Physics, and at the atomic scale, we never really touch anything because of repulsive atoms in both our skin and the objects. We have a general feeling of what we are touching, but it is the repulsive atoms that actually prevent us from feeling what a real tree, or someone's face, or our keyboards as we type our replies. Since I have no jacks in my head, neck and spine, I am quite sure we are living in the real world, and not a matrix. And if I were designing the matrix, I would build in a way that the knowledge that you obtained is transferred. And I would also build in reincarnation so people can build upon previous knowledge and become smarter with each generation. , And I would have coded a backup system of EVERYTHING just in case someone with very important information can still get it to the right person. I probably would backdate an email with all the information, sent by the deceased to his team leader, whether it is in science or a a grid of streets that still need the garbage picked up.

Concerning Jeremy's comment: perhaps one day our space probes will just run into the wall like Tom Hanks did in The Truman Show.

I read quite a while back that the resolution of any simulation would break down at a pixeilation point. If you look close enough at any display we humans generate you get down to individual pixels. The evidence that we are living in a simulation is supported by the ultimate pixelation - Planck Length. Not that I believe it - just throwing it out there.

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I'm not looking forward to the inevitable BSOD. I hope they have backtrack feature (saved states). Maybe we'll stumble across the 'ARCH' command or across an admin using God Mode. I work in simulation, so I know about advanced simulation techniques, aka smoke and mirrors. I get concerned that everything beyond our local area is approximated to conserve system memory and one of these days our interstellar probes will either all go mysteriously missing or the generation of detailed terrestrial terrain to beam back to Earth will reach the memory limit of the ancestor simulator and there won't be any other blade servers to allocate. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there, does it really make a sound? Did it actually fall? Our reality may not be anything like the real real reality. I may be an avatar, maybe the only actual avatar and everyone else is a distraction. It may not be a MMORPG. My head is starting to smoke like one of those androids on Star Trek TOS. Thanks for the mind blow.

Could a future presentation concentrate on the difference between a holographic projection as referenced by black hole data and these simulations?