You want to write your weird sci-fi novel, go nuts, but don't expect to be taken seriously.
Bullshit like this belongs on the Fox News 'science' column, not Slashdot.
I wouldn't say that it doesn't belong because it's bullshit. It doesn't belong because it's not news, much less a novel idea. This idea, or something like it, has long been accepted by philosophers/scientists as being a possibility. There are many things that are possible that we have no evidence for, yet no way to falsify. But we have to make certain assumptions when developing a concept of reality, and it does not help to work under the assumption that theories such as these are true.
In The Matrix, the simulation is in people's head, not their universe itself.
It's all the same thing. It's actually older than any of our sci-fi stories. If you look at the Hindu concept of the Maya, where all reality is an illusion, or Plato's "The Cave." Whether it's in our head or we are part of a larger, physical simulation, makes no difference. The problem is the same.
This doesn't belong on Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
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I wouldn't say that it doesn't belong because it's bullshit. It doesn't belong because it's not news, much less a novel idea. This idea, or something like it, has long been accepted by philosophers/scientists as being a possibility. There are many things that are possible that we have no evidence for, yet no way to falsify. But we have to make certain assumptions when developing a concept of reality, and it does not help to work under the assumption that theories such as these are true.
Anyway, it's basicall
More like Rick and Morty (Score:1)
Re:More like Rick and Morty (Score:4, Insightful)
In The Matrix, the simulation is in people's head, not their universe itself.
It's all the same thing. It's actually older than any of our sci-fi stories. If you look at the Hindu concept of the Maya, where all reality is an illusion, or Plato's "The Cave." Whether it's in our head or we are part of a larger, physical simulation, makes no difference. The problem is the same.
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Whether it's in our head or we are part of a larger, physical simulation, makes no difference
So there is no difference between scientific measurements and the hallucinations of somebody on acid?