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.
Shallow thinking scientist. Why not the universe itself created as a simulation, the entire universe, not a simulation in a jar but the entire universe in space and time but then it could all be unreal and it is all just inside your head in a jar and what is perceive is the simulation and what you thought you had perceived just an memory program uploaded a second ago, a second ago, a second ago, update completed.
Accept reality as reality or accept delusion as delusion, your choice.
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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
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Shallow thinking scientist. Why not the universe itself created as a simulation, the entire universe, not a simulation in a jar but the entire universe in space and time but then it could all be unreal and it is all just inside your head in a jar and what is perceive is the simulation and what you thought you had perceived just an memory program uploaded a second ago, a second ago, a second ago, update completed.
Accept reality as reality or accept delusion as delusion, your choice.