[ExI] Simulations and Fixed Points

[Stuart LaForge]

Sabrina Ballard wrote:


> My issue with living in a simulation is more on the personal end.
>
>
> Assuming it is run by something like a computer, with software and other
> such things, then we sort of exist in a predicament.
>
> What if we get turned off/rebooted?
> What if there is a glitch/bug?
> What if there is a "hot" software update? Possibly all of the laws of
> physics as we know them could suddenly change, etc...
>
> And, if reality is a simulation, then doesn't that mean "magic" and
> "afterlife" actually could be real? After all, it's just software, so if
> you think something hard enough, that could be part of the program, etc.
>
> The whole thing feels like an intellectual pandora's box to me.

You are correct in this assessment. The simulation argument is a
technocratic version of intelligent design. And as such it has all manner
of inconvenient and somewhat disturbing ramifications. That being said,
reality is not obligated to be convenient for us and so far nobody has
successfully ruled it out.

Furthermore, there are several independent lines of evidence that might be
construed as suggestive of the SA.

1. Dr. James Gates discovered error correction codes, identical to those
from computer science, in the equations of string theory governing the
behavior of quarks and other subatomic particles.

2. Quantum mechanics predicts that energy and matter in the universe is
quantitized into discrete chunks that can only be "seen" as integers.

3. General relativity predicts gravitational time-dilation which could be
interpreted as the observed phenomenon that the more particles that are
being processed in a given volume of space,  the slower the frame rate of
the particles' motions.

4. The Fermi paradox would seem a rational decision from the point of view
of a software developer.

5. UFOs, religious phenomena, and all manner of purported paranormal shit
being universally reported by all cultures through out history including
the present day. Even if only 1 in a million are not hoaxes, lies, or
confabulations, that is a still a lot.

Just food for skeptical thought.

Stuart LaForge