Scientists Plan Test to See if The Universe is a Simulation (srs) (mind=blown)

[ClaptonDeCheeks]

If we are in a simulation I wish my designer had given me a bigger dink

[FearThisjake]

lol. you guys are moron and the premise of this idea is ludicrous. If you think it's in the least plausible it's because you live a very sad life and subconsciously strive for something to justify your meaningless presence. You probably have nothing to look forward to in life aside from breaking your no fap streak.

I don't understand how someone could be so ignorant when literally anything is possible in this universe.

[BrotatoChip]

*that we haven't activated*

humans are not at their full potential, we're constantly evolving

Evolution does not push anything towards a final goal. I wish life was like x-men but it isn't.

Anything that's alive now can be considered the final product of billions of years of evolution. The only reason we think we are the special species is because we've evolved to live egocentrically, just as pretty much everything else has.

[Skinnygeorge]

how can you even tell other people are conscious? everyone besides me could be a robot right now and i would have no way to tell

srs

ur all bots

[Poor Excuse]

[NWA19]

Inb4 scientists make discovery on 12/21/12 and our controllers pull the plug.

[tmertz]

This. if the did prove the universe was a simulation they couldnt release the findings, everyone would go full #yolo

[GetWheystead]

But if we were a simulation, then we would be completely determined to do this anyways. Which would never happen. Wut.

[BrotatoChip]

how can you even tell other people are conscious? everyone besides me could be a robot right now and i would have no way to tell

srs

ur all bots

What if everyone else is real and you're the only robot. Everyone around you acts like you're normal to see if a robot can mimic human behavior completely. It's like The Truman Show





Wat

[daprofit]

this idea hs been around for a long time. It is known as the holographic universe theory. Conspiracy theorists have known for a long time....open your eyes.

[NWA19]

how can you even tell other people are conscious? everyone besides me could be a robot right now and i would have no way to tell

srs

ur all bots

You are a bot convincing me that you are not a bot by calling me out.

Wut?

Edit: wizard bot above me

[ChernobylResist]

What if everyone else is real and you're the only robot. Everyone around you acts like you're normal to see if a robot can mimic human behavior completely. It's like The Truman Show





Wat

Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep novel addressed that issue before. Singularity is gonna be so fuked up in the future.

[GetWheystead]

Meh

I think, therefore I am, thats all there is to it

Also pretty much this. The fact that we have thought, as Descartes says, means that we do in fact exist. And no not by a computer simulation.

Edit: Would it be fair to say this "Android" is God himself? Or a God as we perceive one to be?

[BrotatoChip]

But if we were a simulation, then we would be completely determined to do this anyways. Which would never happen. Wut.

Could be a sh!tty programmer.

I never read through all the code before I run a program, I compile it and see if it does what I think it will.

[Voylol]

Cool stuff.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—
Arthur Schopenhauer,

[SkinnyBrahJD]

We aren't limited by our physical senses because of science.

brb microscopes, telescopes, chemistry, spectroscopy, wave mechanics...

And please, don't start talking about how we have to use our senses to interpret the results from these methods.

I've considered that argument and meant to address it in my previous post.

What about everything else, that our best instruments cannot pick up? We r always getting better and better instruments and finding new things, it's never ending- our instruments only get us so far - nom sayin ?

[gpg_prodigy]

what if we are a virtual simulation/reality from the future

Someone just created the virtual world and "logs in" is playing in it right now, so our creator is in the same universe as us and multiverse is other ppls virtual simulations


just like in our future, i can see virtual reality games becoming so real the user joins the world and feels like real life

[KingYing]

I don't understand how someone could be so ignorant when literally anything is possible in this universe.

This..reading this thread and some of these posts really have me facepalming hard

[Misc_Lurker]

watc h it brahs!

[AcEXBOX]

Good idea, but it seems we weren't be capable to even comprehend how it works or have the technology needed to come close to finding out.

[BrotatoChip]

I've considered that argument and meant to address it in my previous post.

What about everything else, that our best instruments cannot pick up? We r always getting better and better instruments and finding new things, it's never ending- our instruments only get us so far - nom sayin ?

We know of only 4 fundamental forces. There could be 50 of them, but 46 are so weak that they will remain undetectable indefinitely.

Science is only concerned with things that can be verified in some way. Say we somehow create a perfect grand unified theory that explains everything in this universe except those 46 other forces. Does that make our theory incomplete?

[ThatsitThatsall]

lmao, could you imagine if this was true and what the "programmers" are thinking when the scientist said that.

[probotic]

I think this would be pointless under even the best of circumstances... how would we possibly recognize a "glitch" in the laws of physics of our own universe if they're the only laws of physics we have to work with? We don't have anything to compare them to, even if something was a 'glitch' in the program, to us, it would appear to be a principle of our laws of physics. Take the Uncertainty Principle, for example, that you cannot know both the exact location and motion of a particle at the same moment. We take that as a fundamental principle of quantum physics, but it could merely be a limitation of the simulation of which our world is a part. Maybe in the "real" world, outside of the simulation, you can know the exact location and motion at a particular moment, but the creator of the simulation could not program that level of detail into the simulation. We could never tell the difference from within the simulation; the uncertainty principle could either be a law of physics or a limitation of our simulation software, but we can never prove which it actually is, at least from within the fishbowl of the 'simulation,' if it actually is one.

this. how we could even know if we found something that was wrong? to us thats just the way it is, we cant prove that it is suppsed to be some other way

[gpg_prodigy]

lmao, could you imagine if this was true and what the "programmers" are thinking when the scientist said that.

we might just be a virtual reality copy and some forever aloner in the future is playing our copy of the universe

[bmp010]

brb living life in GTA mode. if i die fuk it brb respawning at last check point

[KingYing]

watc h it brahs!

Really good movie, repping on RC

[trackblonston]

Only DepressedBrah and jesus can save us now

[mazaa]

Look at all of us talking/typing, having our OWN individual thoughts which we can change and differs from everyone else's.

There's no such thing as this bs programmer, we are our own selves.

I choose to fart now, or hold it for another two seconds, my choice.
Brb creating Internet, surfboards, brooms, shovels, etc. was all created by some kunt on some super computer.

Okay.jpeg

Phuck all you potatoes ITT.

[NoMilkForYou]

Look at all of us talking/typing, having our OWN individual thoughts which we can change and differs from everyone else's.

There's no such thing as this bs programmer, we are our own selves.

I choose to fart now, or hold it for another two seconds, my choice.
Brb creating Internet, surfboards, brooms, shovels, etc. was all created by some kunt on some super computer.

Okay.jpeg

Phuck all you potatoes ITT.

This. Potatoes gonna potate

[newbie3]

Can someone please explain the significance of this to me in layman's terms?

I've taken my fair share of science courses, but I don't have a clue what the big deal about this is. Isn't it purely a philosophical thought experiment at this point?

How does detecting patterns prove anything about whether or not we are living a simulation? Could those patterns exist in a simulation? Yes. Could they exist in a non-simulation? Yes.

What I'm saying is, I understand the concept of living a simulation. I understand why this would be interesting and useful to find out. What I don't understand is how merely pointing out the possibility of a simulation qualifies as some grand scientific discovery.

That's like me saying that we are all robots, and then saying that the way our brains process information is proof of this. It could be true, but it's in no way proof.