{"id":1349,"date":"2020-09-22T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2020-09-24T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:00:12","slug":"the-reality-of-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/22\/the-reality-of-a-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"The reality of a simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Alice Looney<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

   Reality is what we perceive; it is what we can comprehend using our five senses. However, physicists and philosophers argue that statement with a theory called the \u201cSimulation Theory.\u201d The theory states that we as \u201chumans\u201d are living in computer controlled by an omniscient programmer; stating, that we are living in a sim-like world. There has been talk of people \u201cliving\u201d in a computer or being cloned into a computer in movies and tv shows. However, this theory talks of the human population only being created to live in this computer world. One of the most popular movies that has discussed this theory is Matrix. The 1991 Sci-Fi Classic shares the tale of Neo as he is given two choices; the blue pill to go back to his \u201cnormal world\u201d and stay ignorant, or by taking the red pill he is agreeing to see what’s beyond the Matrix. If we live in a sim-like world then we could easily bend the rules of physics, however, philosopher and physicists then go on to state that the \u201cprogrammer entity\u201d could easily set rules and laws. Which are what we know to be today as the Laws of Physics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Although this theory sounds like something out of Sci-fi movie, it\u2019s a \u201clegitimate scientific hypothesis,\u201d according to the Clara Moskowitz, Senior Editor at Scientific American. This possibility has raised some questions regarding spirituality. It opens the door to questions on \u201ceternal life and resurrection,\u201d states Moskowitz. Vulture put together an article titled \u201c15 Irrefutable Reasons We Might be Living in a Simulation;\u201d this article touches on things such as \u201cThe Mandala Effect.\u201d The idea that we live in a computer simulation sounds like the beginning of dystopian movie, that we aren\u2019t actually free beings but programs being controlled by alien race. Nonetheless, mathematicians, physicists and philosophers have rebutted the \u201cSimulation Argument.\u201d Theoretical physicist Dmitry L. Kovrizhin states in a Fast Company article that in order for a Simulation big enough to hold our entire Universe you would have to \u201csimulate a quantum mechanical system, one would in general, have to diagonalize this matrix on a computer which is a computationally difficult task when the size of the matrix becomes large,\u201d in other words, it would be very difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   This theory has believers all over the spectrum of belief, some people just think it could be a possibility whereas people like NYU philosopher David Chalmers doubt that there is even a way to prove that we\u2019re not in a simulation \u201cbecause any evidence could be simulated,\u201d says Chalmers. This theory is something that humans have hypothesized for years but as of right now, it is just a theory that is used to stretch minds beyond what we know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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