Are we living in a simulation?

[Monkeys Fist 42484]

Why is May adopting that stance?

Ageing Rocker Hip Lock.

[toonotl 2988]

Even the idea that 'virtual reality' could be achieved completely by a computer simulation is over 50 years older than the matrix films.

 

Simile of the Cave + Universal Computation + Quantum Physics = The Matrix

[The Fish 10876]

Aye, like Parky says, the roots of skepticism can be traced back to the early 5th Century BC.

 

Zeno of Elea, (c. 490 BC ) put forward three paradoxes concerning the nature of motion, and questioning the reality of what we see around us.

 

Plato, (c. 428-348 BC) in the seventh book of The Republic relates the Allegory of the cave

 

Descartes (1596–1650) employs a version of methodological skepticism, the first precept of which he states is "never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such".

 

Hume (1711–1776) argued for two kinds of reasoning: probable and demonstrative (Hume's fork), and applied these to the skeptical argument that reality is but an illusion.

 

Kant (1724–1804) was an advocate of Transcendental Idealism, that there are limits on what can be understood, and what we see as reality is merely how things appear to us, not how those things are in and of themselves.

 

Hegel (1770–1831) proposed a conception of knowledge, mind and reality in which the mind itself creates external forms and objects that stand outside of it or opposed to it.

 

Husserl (1859–1938) proposed a way of looking at objects by examining how we "constitute" them as (seemingly) real objects, rather than simply figments of our imagination. In this Phenomenological standpoint, the object ceases to be "external", with mere indicators about its nature, its essence arising from the relationship between the object and the perceiver.

 

Heidegger (1889–1976) in Being and Time questions of the meaning of Being, and distinguishes it from any specific thing "'Being' is not something like a being". According to Heidegger, this sense of being precedes any notions of which beings exist, as it is a primary construct.

 

The Matrix (1999) an American science fiction action film in which a computer programmer "Neo" is drawn into a rebellion against the machines that simulate existence, involving other people who have been freed from the "dream world" and into reality.

The biggest Nerd-Slap I've ever seen. Kudos.

[Tom 14013]

If we are I'm editing the Database & we're winning trophies non stop till it switches off.

[Park Life 71]

If you move an object from one postion to another. It becomes a new object. It occupies a new positon in the quantum field. The 'other object' is trapped in an old 'super postion' (place where frequencies interact with observable light so we can see something).

 

http://www.acs.psu.e...erposition.html

 

Edited May 12, 2012 by Park Life