Are we living in a Matrix style computer game? What is life all about?

Gerry Rio · 02-12-2015 06:35PM #1

PC performance wise we can now hold in our hand a microchip with numerous times the power of a PC 30 years ago that would have needed a whole room to host.

So whats to say if Moore's Law is right and these computer chips keep getting more powerful that a future generation 500 years from now havent made an elaborate computer game and we're it?

Or are we the computer game fun for another intelligent species?

What is life all about in terms of how we exist? Have we a universe living inside of us? Are we our own God of this particular one? (I forget which religion believes that one)

What's it all about?

One More Toy · 02-12-2015 06:35PM

Gerry Rio wrote: »

PC performance wise we can now hold in our hand a microchip with numerous times power of a PC 30 years ago that would have needed a whole room to host.

So whats to say if Moore's Law is right and these computer chips keep getting more powerful that a future generation 500 years from now havent made an elaborate computer game and we're it?

Or are we the computer game fun for another intelligent species?

What is life all about in terms of how we exist? Have we a universe living inside of us? Are we our own God of this particular one? (I forget which religion believes that one)

What's it all about?

It's all about Pints

Mesrine65 · 02-12-2015 06:36PM

LSD?

valoren · 02-12-2015 06:42PM

Quantum Computers is where it's at baby.

GardeningGirl · 02-12-2015 06:52PM

Hi, often wondered that before, are we a Simms for some other creature's entertainment...
Yeah, I'm certain God exists, but not sure of it's true identity or purpose for creation.
Some think that before Creation/reality that God didn't experience, so created the material world to know and be known. Plausible!
Or maybe we need to accept Jesus or maybe not and to be in submission to Allah... or who knows.
I think the safest bet is on doing what makes your conscience comfortable.
We all have it so better to follow what that teaches you than the teachings of another person if they don't line up with your version of 'right'

Gerry Rio · 02-12-2015 06:54PM

GardeningGirl wrote: »

Or maybe we need to accept Jesus or maybe not and to be in submission to Allah... or who knows.

I was listening to you upto that point.

The Backwards Man · 02-12-2015 06:55PM

It's a bit like brushing your teeth before your breakfast, the more you think about it, the more stupid the whole thing seems.

The_Valeyard · 02-12-2015 06:56PM

Well, f*ck it they might do a better job of running the planet than we have.

NomadicGray · 02-12-2015 07:01PM

Well if we get to the point we can run a fully simulated universe then there's going to be more simulated universes than non simulated so odds are this one is indeed a simulation

Mr. CooL ICE · 02-12-2015 07:02PM

No.

Tried rocket jumping up the stairs earlier and just blew my legs off.

02-12-2015 07:16PM

It's an extended game of civ

strelok · 02-12-2015 07:20PM

bluewolf wrote: »

It's an extended game of civ

****ing austria

c_man · 02-12-2015 07:30PM

OP you've figured it out. Add to that the lack of visible evidence of ETs, and it points to fact that the people running the Universe simulation only have enough RAM for us.

Note: If we find aliens, then that means the Universe has been upgraded and they've "imported" the alien civ from another saved game they have. My theory is sound.

Fleawuss · 02-12-2015 07:32PM

Another thinly veiled return to Jebus thread

Junkyard Tom · 02-12-2015 07:33PM

*Black cat walks by*

Ruu · 02-12-2015 07:35PM

A game of 'I have no mouth and I must scream'.

Dep! · 02-12-2015 07:36PM

We could be. This is worth a read http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/07/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

Fleawuss · 02-12-2015 07:36PM

Think I just dodged a bullet there

Junkyard Tom · 02-12-2015 07:42PM

*Black cat walks by*

02-12-2015 07:56PM

From ghosts and psychics to computer games. This is what happens to your brain on drugs, kids.

Skoop · 02-12-2015 08:06PM

Candie wrote: »

From ghosts and psychics to computer games. This is what happens to your brain on drugs, kids.

Lack of drugs I'd say. It's always the straight edgers. Lash some mescaline into them. Be grand.

02-12-2015 08:14PM

Would it really make any difference to us if this universe was a simulation or not? The only way we can exist *at all* is *as part of* this universe, whatever the true nature of it happens to be.

So long as the universe wasn't created with human beings *specifically* "in mind" (ie. so long as our coming into existence following the beginning of the universe was not preordained), I see no reason for us to feel that the answers to the deepest questions have any specific relevance to us, as creatures that incidentally evolved on one planet out of billions, and then only after 4 billion years of gradual, unpreordained evolution of life. If the earths history was represented by a 4.54 km timeline, the last 10 cm would represent the last 100,000 years of history (ie. that period of time when humans as we know them were a thing) - if the universe is indeed some matrix-type simulation, it isn't so *in order to be* spooky to us, or relevant to us in any specific way (as creatures which only arose after that length of time). The matter which contributes to sustaining our bodies over our lifetimes existed long before our conceptions and was tied up in other structures before then, so it wasn't there specifically for us .... ah, could ramble all day on this so i'll leave it there!