NASA scientist says we may be living in a Matrix-like digital imprisonment

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Quote from: Bit_Happy on July 24, 2015, 07:48:16 PM

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"WELCOME to The Matrix. You’ve lived here all your life.

This was the terrifying theory first proposed by British philosopher Nick Bostrom.

The shocking hypothesis was penned four years after Andrew and Lana Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, a film set in a dystopian future in which humans are subdued by a simulated reality."

There should be a correction to the article - if Nick came up with his theory 4 years after The Matrix was written, then the theory was really penned by Andrew and Lana Wachowski. Give credit where credit is due...the Matrix was a really thought provoking film!

"The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, but lost to The Matrix."

They came out the same year, but I always preferred the Thirteenth Floor personally. Just have to say Matrix, because most people have never heard of the The Thirteenth Floor.

I am going to watch "The Thirteenth Floor" ASAP, thanks for the tip.

I hope you enjoy it.

It's kind of sad to me that the Matrix is always on tv in repeats, but you can barely ever catch The Thirteenth Floor. I have a copy, but it's a VHS tape, lol, and packed away somewhere.

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Once we have determined that we and our whole existence is a simulation, then we need to find out 2 more things:

1. How many simulations are there within other simulations - imbedded simulations;

2. How extremely complex (perhaps beyond understanding) is the primary, base simulation.

If we ever expect to understand this, we are going to need to calculate the combined effects of cause and effect, entropy, and complexity in general.

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"WELCOME to The Matrix. You’ve lived here all your life.

This was the terrifying theory first proposed by British philosopher Nick Bostrom.

The shocking hypothesis was penned four years after Andrew and Lana Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, a film set in a dystopian future in which humans are subdued by a simulated reality."

There should be a correction to the article - if Nick came up with his theory 4 years after The Matrix was written, then the theory was really penned by Andrew and Lana Wachowski. Give credit where credit is due...the Matrix was a really thought provoking film!

"The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, but lost to The Matrix."

They came out the same year, but I always preferred the Thirteenth Floor personally. Just have to say Matrix, because most people have never heard of the The Thirteenth Floor.

I am going to watch "The Thirteenth Floor" ASAP, thanks for the tip.

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Quote from: (oYo) on July 24, 2015, 04:47:13 PM

Curious. Would you consider a bacterial colony in a petri dish to be "imprisoned"? Is a fish imprisoned to a body of water or a tree imprisoned to a land base? Is not all life on Earth held captive or confined to this planet much in the same way? Perhaps we are not imprisoned, yet still exist within The Matrix. Consider the possibility that perhaps we could not even exist otherwise.

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Quote from: Lauda on July 22, 2015, 09:30:24 AM

Well yeah, I've thought about this even before I read that someone else suggested it in the past. If you really consider it, it is quite a possibility. There is nothing logical that can disprove this.
The real question is, how could we break this simulation? This could be even on just a individual basis.

Nonsense.

Show the experimental paradigm which proves such an assertion.

Not "how you feel about it."

Scientists are already working on creating artificial brain simulations. At some point there will in fact be more artificial brain simulations than there are people. Once this point is reached, it will be far more likely that you are a simulation than real.

That will be a trip,always figure thats what happens when we die. See that we are plugged in and then some one comes along to reset.

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Curious. Would you consider a bacterial colony in a petri dish to be "imprisoned"? Is a fish imprisoned to a body of water or a tree imprisoned to a land base? Is not all life on Earth held captive or confined to this planet much in the same way? Perhaps we are not imprisoned, yet still exist within The Matrix. Consider the possibility that perhaps we could not even exist otherwise.

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Quote from: Lauda on July 22, 2015, 09:30:24 AM

Well yeah, I've thought about this even before I read that someone else suggested it in the past. If you really consider it, it is quite a possibility. There is nothing logical that can disprove this.
The real question is, how could we break this simulation? This could be even on just a individual basis.

Nonsense.

Show the experimental paradigm which proves such an assertion.

Not "how you feel about it."

Scientists are already working on creating artificial brain simulations. At some point there will in fact be more artificial brain simulations than there are people. Once this point is reached, it will be far more likely that you are a simulation than real.

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This is old news,right? Thought I read this about 6 months back in a Science magazine.

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Quote from: Possum577 on July 23, 2015, 03:49:49 PM

Quote from: MakingMoneyHoney on July 22, 2015, 09:14:29 AM

"WELCOME to The Matrix. You’ve lived here all your life.

This was the terrifying theory first proposed by British philosopher Nick Bostrom.

The shocking hypothesis was penned four years after Andrew and Lana Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, a film set in a dystopian future in which humans are subdued by a simulated reality."

There should be a correction to the article - if Nick came up with his theory 4 years after The Matrix was written, then the theory was really penned by Andrew and Lana Wachowski. Give credit where credit is due...the Matrix was a really thought provoking film!

"The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, but lost to The Matrix."

They came out the same year, but I always preferred the Thirteenth Floor personally. Just have to say Matrix, because most people have never heard of the The Thirteenth Floor.

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Quote from: MakingMoneyHoney on July 22, 2015, 09:14:29 AM

"WELCOME to The Matrix. You’ve lived here all your life.

This was the terrifying theory first proposed by British philosopher Nick Bostrom.

The shocking hypothesis was penned four years after Andrew and Lana Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, a film set in a dystopian future in which humans are subdued by a simulated reality."

There should be a correction to the article - if Nick came up with his theory 4 years after The Matrix was written, then the theory was really penned by Andrew and Lana Wachowski. Give credit where credit is due...the Matrix was a really thought provoking film!

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We are living in the Matrix for sure. Wink

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http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/

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This would also explain the Berenstein Bears / Berenstain Bears mess. Glitch in the matrix.

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Quote from: Spendulus on July 22, 2015, 12:26:48 PM

Nonsense.

Show the experimental paradigm which proves such an assertion.

Not "how you feel about it."

I was just explaining what I was thinking. There is no need to backup my thoughts since I'm not trying to prove that this is right.
I've recently found something interesting that should be read. The idea is just interesting, there is no need to prove it.

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Matrix-like scientist says we may be living in a NASA digital imprisonment.

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Quote from: Lauda on July 22, 2015, 09:30:24 AM

Well yeah, I've thought about this even before I read that someone else suggested it in the past. If you really consider it, it is quite a possibility. There is nothing logical that can disprove this.
The real question is, how could we break this simulation? This could be even on just a individual basis.

Nonsense.

Show the experimental paradigm which proves such an assertion.

Not "how you feel about it."

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The digital universe is written in code that goes way beyond "1s" and "0s." We are the AIs that God created in this digital universe.

Out of love for His handiwork, God is absorbing us into His non-digital world of reality - Heaven. But He is only taking the ones who want to go.

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Well yeah, I've thought about this even before I read that someone else suggested it in the past. If you really consider it, it is quite a possibility. There is nothing logical that can disprove this.
The real question is, how could we break this simulation? This could be even on just a individual basis.

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NASA scientist says we may be living in a Matrix-like digital imprisonment designed by Aliens

I really have no clue why they decided it was designed by Aliens. If everything we know is a simulation, the solar system may not exist in reality, it could very well be demonic instead, as Descarte theorized. Anyway, here's some snippets from the article:

"WELCOME to The Matrix. You’ve lived here all your life.

(Express UK) Everything you have ever done or will do could simply be the product of a highly-advanced computer code.

Every relationship, every sentiment, every memory could have been generated by banks of supercomputers.

This was the terrifying theory first proposed by British philosopher Nick Bostrom.

The shocking hypothesis was penned four years after Andrew and Lana Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, a film set in a dystopian future in which humans are subdued by a simulated reality."

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"The idea that our Universe is a fiction generated by computer code solves a number of inconsistencies and mysteries about the cosmos."

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"Dark Matter is one of many hypothetical materials used to explain a number of anomalies in the Standard Model – the all-encompassing theory science has used to explain the particles and forces of nature for the last 50 years."

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