How To Test Whether You're Living In ‘The Matrix’
Friday, October 26, 2012 7:23
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THE question of whether we live in a real world or a simulated one has plagued philosophers for centuries – but now scientists believe they finally have found a way to test the theory.
Professor Silas Beane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Bonn in Germany said that his group of scientists have developed a way to test the ‘simulation hypothesis’.
The idea has been debated by the greats of philosophy, from Plato to Descartes, who speculated that the world we see around us could be generated by an ‘evil demon’.
The successful film franchise, ‘The Matrix’, also helped spawn the idea that what we think is our everyday life is in fact a simulation generated by an all-powerful computer.
But now more than two thousand years since Plato suggested that our senses only give us a poor reflection of objective reality, experts believe they have cracked the riddle.
Professor Beane told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme that his proposal could be the beginning of a new period of discovery.
The test would see scientists using mathematical models known as the lattice QCD approach in an attempt to recreate – on a theoretical level – a simulated reality.
To identify what these constraints would be, scientists would have to build their own simulation of the universe.
They hope to see whether such an exercise would be theoretically possible – and what the constraints on the ‘evil demon’ might be.
Lattice QCD is a complex approach that that looks at how particles known as quarks and gluons relate in three dimensions.
Professor Bean said: “We consider ourselves on some level universe simulators because we calculate the interactions of particles by basically replacing space and time by a grid and putting it in a box.”
“In doing that we face lots of problems for instance the box and the grid size breaks Einstein’s special theory of relativity so we know how to fix this in order to get physical predictions that are meaningful.”
“We thought that if we make the assumption that the so-called simulators face some of the same problems that we do in terms of finite resources and so on then, if they are doing a simulation and even though their box size of course is enormous and the grid size can be very small, as long as the resources are finite then the box size will be finite, the grid size will be finite.”
“And therefore at some level for instance there would be violations of Einstein’s special theory of relativity.”
Philosophers have cautioned that there is still some way to go before we find out whether the universe is simulated. Dr Peter Millican of Hertford College, Oxford said: “There are two main issues, one is whether the speculation even makes sense and the other is supposing it makes sense whether there is any good reason to think it is plausible.
“The other problem is evidence. It seems to me that the evidence that is looked for is not that convincing.”
Descartes said the evil demon that he believed controlled the universe is “as clever and deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading me.”
But he countered that his ability to think was, at least, proof enough that he was real, writing: “I think, therefore I am.”
Plato said that reality may be no more than shadows in a cave but the cave dweller, having never left the cave, may not be aware of it.
Lucy Kinder, Telegraph.co.uk
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WHAT WE ARE LIVING IN IS A SORT OF CONGLOMERATE OF BOTH.
We are in a test-phase – tested for a spiritual reality while our bodies are corporeal machines.
We have been placed in physical bodies that, for spiritual beings, are much like when we place our physical selves into automobiles & drive them, maneuver them, use turn signals, etc.
What we do in our physical bodies gives data on how we will perform (or not) in spiritual reality in what Jews & Christians call the “resurrection”. God has already seen angellic beings turn renegade on Him due to self-induced fault. This way, with physical trial-testing, that is somewhat avoided before it turns into messing up things in a spiritual realm. It is like a probationary period on a new job. People who decide to simply b screwups…get the heave-ho.
I think you summed it up perfectly
Interesting analogy actually!
Yes, Interesting Analogy indeed! But I question where you say what we do in our Physical, would give ‘Data’ on how we will be in our Spiritual. Now we have to take airline flights to different places on the Earth. In Spiritual Form, we merely have to think, and will be at our destination. Also, the destinations will prob be totally different in Spiritual. After all, we would not need to go to Physical Place, we would most likely be traveling to an entire realm of thought. I hope this is coming out like I want it to. Anyway, nice Comm to this article. Later, Syx.
If you mention the matrix, you need to start learning about energy harvesting and the smart grid, the meters and the grid and the loss of freedom, you can see the role that FB and all the rest are playing in the information derivatives game
http://www.empowernetwork.com/tmoney777/blog/facebook-and-the-fall-of-freedom/
I AM SPARTACUS!
Descartes had a very interesting observation, which curiously enough parallels the Biblical view that “the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One”. People generally have absolutely no recognition of, or belief in, the spiritual realm which empowers the physical plane we live in. They do not believe, for example, in miracles, but when they are shown them, ( eg the feeding of the “n” thousand ) they then ask for another one. They see the resurrection of the dead, ( which incidentally, the orthodox Jew does NOT believe in; this is a uniquely Christian understanding ) and then crucify the Person responsible for that.
Your average human being is like a computer that needs a software upgrade. His machinery cannot recognise or respond to a new type of software which has not been downloaded, this is called the Holy Spirit; hence the many thousands who hate and totally reject the divine revelation we have been given by the Lord of Creation, the Son of God, the soon-coming King, who lived and walked amongst us, without being recognised by more than a handful. He came to His own, and His own received Him not.
A minor point, maybe, but Einstein never created anything, much less a theory of relativity. He was a complete plagiarist, as is revealed in Christopher Bjerknes’ “The manufacture and sale of St Einstein”.
Those who may have had a lifelong regard for another Jew, Bob Dylan, will also be aware that he too is another product of the same deceptive matrix. As Joni Mitchell and others have pointed out.