Once I started to recognize the cause and effect relationship, I was able to adjust the way I physiologically / mentally respond to it. Now I turn it into useful energy. Just wish it translated into actual physical energy instead of just mental energy.
Look brother, I'm not here contributing novel ideas, I'm just saying that your idea that some alien species builds a simulator that enables them to resim their part of the universe to find where the humans are is silly, buuuuut if they figure fundamental principals of how our universe work (whether it's a simulation or not), they could. That's got very little to do with what you said though.
But that's literally the point of simulating a universe... If you can simulate the past then there's no reason you can't simulate the future too.
If the universe is purely deterministic then it's absolutely true. I already addressed how free will could mess up a simulation. If you mean something other than one of those two things, you're gonna have to spell it out.
If you know the past and future, and the 'universe' is deterministic, then what is the point of the simulation?
You bring up "if" as if I didn't address all sides of the hypothesis....
Then what's the point of anything? This isn't the philosophy thread go discuss nihilism somewhere else.
If we are a simulation, we aren't deterministic, not that there isn't a point.
I don't think the universe is deterministic. I just brought up the possibility so I could cover all the angles. I also discussed the possibility that free will exists, you saw, right?
This doesn't work unless you assume new/magic physics. You can't fully simulate this universe inside this universe, because the computer would need to have at least as many atoms as the universe. Any alien race in this universe would be running a simulation of a universe with simpler physics.
"The computer would need to have at least as many atoms as the universe" was my original objection to simulation theory 20 years ago, and is actually still my favorite response. I think the universe just looks like a simulation because God is a rational / logical being. And the machinations of a 100% logical being will naturally resemble an algorithm (remember algorithms were around in math before computers were).
The real science version by Ray Kurzweil is a lot more plausible than the Asimov scifi version of course.
Despite the objections I received, I didn't say anything that people much smarter than you or I have said. I'm not making up my own shit here. Just repeating the words of philosophers, physicists, mathematicians, and futurists.
...what was your reasoning behind this? I think that if the world is deterministic then we are MORE likely to be in a simulation. A simulation that perfectly replicates our own universe would ONLY be possible in a deterministic universe. Any amount of free will entering the system from outside the system would be uncomputable.
