Pixels, Resolution, Virtual and Augmented Reality Let’s delve into the top reasons why we may be living in a simulation after all:ġ. Moreover, as I delved more into the Eastern traditions, particularly Yogic and Buddhist philosophy, I found that their ideas about the nature of the world were actually pretty consistent with the idea that we are living in a simulation. “subjective” reality, I started to wonder again about the idea of a giant multi-player video game. A civilization that implemented an advanced simulation like ours might be many thousands (even millions) of years ahead of us it’s not that hard to imagine such a civilization creating much more sophisticated games than we are capable of building today.Īs I started to study Quantum Physics and its startling revelations about the nature of “objective” vs. The Matrix planted the idea in the popular consciousness that we are in a simulated realityĪs a computer scientist and video game designer, I have to admit that this idea is not really that crazy. The first time was during an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where a holo-deck character realized that he was in a simulation and that some of the people in the simulation existed “out there” (in this case, out there was the rest of the Enterprise) and he wanted to go there, too! Was it possible that we were in a “holo-deck-like” space and that there was another world “out there”, I wondered? Like my first exposure to most great ideas, I discovered the Simulation Hypothesis through watching and reading too much science fiction. Some, like Oxford lecturer Nick Bostrom, goes further and thinks we may in fact be artificially simulated consciousness inside such a simulation already! Science Fiction Or Mysticism? Others, like futurist Ray Kurzweil, have popularized the idea of downloading our consciousness into a silicon based device, which would mean we are just digital information after all. Dick, believed strongly that we were living in a kind of simulation. As Virtual Reality technology has gotten more sophisticated, we are starting to contemplate virtual worlds like that of the omni-present Oasis in Ready Player One, soon to be a blockbuster movie directed by Stephen Spielberg. Recently, the idea that we may be living in a giant video game, or as it’s sometimes called, the Simulation Hypothesis, has gotten a lot of attention because of prominent figures like Elon Musk who have openly discussed the idea. NOTE : If you enjoyed this article, you might want to read my book, on or barnes& or ebook on kobo here! Or sign up at my website at ! An MIT trained computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer gives 10 reasons for the “Simulation Hypothesis”: that our reality is a simulated, pixelated 3d world where we all have individual xp, levels, and quests run by some giant Artificial Intelligence
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