POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

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Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Humans will become extinct before building computers powerful enough to run simulations capable of creating entire virtual worlds full of people with virtual intelligence.
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9%
An advanced post-human civilisation will have these computers but no desire to run simulations of their ancestors.
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23%
We're probably already living in the simulation, and this page - like you - is just a series of 0s and 1s.
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36%
I'm an an unoriginal idiot and would rather think and rant about "solvable" problems like Gaza
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32%
 
Total votes : 22

Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby friendlyskies » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:14 pm

OH. Crap. I meant option C. Because I assume this is part of some bigger scheme, an experiment, or a video game. Or like I said, a vacation. Although that leaves me wondering, "How much does my job suck that I come *here* to escape it all?" Seriously, I assume we're so fucking bored in Nirvana that we jump into the uncertainty of "life" for the adrenaline rush.

Here is the Encyclopedia Dramatica hypothesis:

God is the Santa Claus for adults. He is the protagonist of the Bible, a book which has somehow sold moar copies than Harry Potter, making it the most successful work of fiction evar. The Bible, the chronology of God's Adventures, is a volume of pornography, rape, incest, and other sorts of epic win. It is believed that God created the universe with no other reason than to play a game of The Sims against Satan.
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Sri Lanky » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:26 pm

If you come here to escape your job then your job must be a good teacher.

Exactly,it's not about Nirvana. The rape,incest,murder,etc......it's there for a reason;it's there,at the biological level,to open the portal in people's minds.
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Postby el3so » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:21 pm

Never mind popular support, very few people like even the idea of creating things and then letting them go. And even if a self-reliant AI (or whatever the actual incarnation of this idea might be) did come to existence, I'd count on humanity to start player-hating...

Fansy wrote: You all will be quite surprised I reckon when, upon your death, there is not this depressing "nothingness" that you atheists want so much, but instead a continuance of life, at which time you shall be held accountable for the choices you have made in your previous life.

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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Sri Lanky » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:32 pm

Zero equals One equals Infinity
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Mikethehack » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:22 pm

Life is too short to spend in front of a computer screen (he said as he posted on the BFC).
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Sri Lanky » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:57 pm

This is the extent to which I will go to get that feeeeeeeeling of shared humanity.....lol

It's the difference between life and death,man.

It's the difference between the 0's and the 1's.
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby trueblue5x5 » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:49 pm

Ahhh SRi! You came 'dangerously close' to what I was tinkin....

I would prevail on the theorist to add an "all of the above/none of the above" checkpoint?

What If we are the creators [allegedly of AI]
*And* the products?

I'm leaning towards the universal anthro theory more and more - as I age.... it just makes sense if the compelling nature of life is to assure its own existence. We are the 'design'... and we are the 'manipulators/engineers' of that design... nature . If the species self destructs - [is excreted] the uber consciousness of life will simply re-engineer the next iteration.

So we 'could' be both experiement and experimentor... as designed by the demands of basic evolutionary will to [or of] life.

we've already managed to physically "glimpse" empirical evidence of a paralell space time ,... [SciAm 2007 Jun or July?] We actually managed to 'fold back/peel back this 'reality' plane and "see" [for a tenthousandth of a second but it was recordable] another "place". Folded nealty alongside this "place"... in time/space.

We have people who claim to see and utilize their human resources -and travel to and from these dimensions- as a form of time travel... to 'see things and places as they "appear' to us humans - at that particular time. Some of these people are providing pretty compelling empirical data and success rates to at least encourage an open mind about it.

What if we are simply occupants of the same [species/life form] "boat"...floating down the river of "life" ... even if we fall out of the boat and 'drown' - we're still immersed in the river of life.... hmmmmm


What if:
The 'cosmic bang isn't so much a bang ,.... as a breath? [ what is the mathematical shape of a breath?]
could explain why the universe matter seems to be going in and out expanding and contracting,....


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That's the 'free radical" element of "biological engineering" that adds the 'randomness' to the equation!


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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Woodsman » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:14 pm

What happens if the Conficker C virus infects this computer?
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Sri Lanky » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:08 pm

The simulation is an interesting take but I don't buy it. Our brains are plastic and fluid. Brains will actually change physically in response to stimuli(one of my favourite words). Computers are plastic and static. So,there is a huge difference between carbon and silicon.

I've been hearing a lot about "string theory" and vibration resonance. I think that these have something to do with the parallel space/time dimensions you mentioned,trueblue. According to string theory there are 11 known dimensions. This could explain certain types of contact with "aliens" and also ties in with what mushroom-gobbling shamans see during some of their vision quests. I don't think sufi or voodoo types can whip themselves in enough of a frenzy to experience what a person might see...say...on LSD.

I know one guy who took LSD back in the early seventies,when it was the real deal,and he can access the fourteenth dimension. : )
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby Sri Lanky » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:20 pm

It's possible that the human brain has evolved in two directions. One as an instrument of the "survival of the fittest" game and the other as an instrument of communication with "mystical" reality. The reality that exists before all temporal existence.

I think the materialists are dead wrong when they assume consciousness is a by-product of physical evolution. Only consciousness itself can realize consciousness. Basically only you can know your own nature. It can't be told to you by a graph or a description in a book.

I found a great quote,"Mystics are people who are finding ways to "hack" the brain,and allows us to gain information not only from the brian's software,but from the hardware itself."

--brokenyogi
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Re: POLL: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Postby swordpoint9 » Mon May 04, 2009 3:09 pm

All I know is I like sticking my goooie into her smoooie and downloading my DNA into her, and observing the product of the love act to grow strong!God does the programming in all different strands of this string theory ! I know this because of my Wife and Son!!!!!!
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