Which pill would you take?
http://news.techeye.net/science/sci...ed-by-futuristic-supercomputers#ixzz2EvauuhC7
http://news.techeye.net/science/sci...ed-by-futuristic-supercomputers#ixzz2EvauuhC7
Are We Living In A Box?
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Maybe a box within a box.
Thinking in a box, yes.
Computer, end program.
COMPUTER, END PROGRAM!!!
COMPUTER, END @#$% PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dang.
COMPUTER, END PROGRAM!!!
COMPUTER, END @#$% PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dang.
Whichever pill allows me to pretend I am not a homeless person living in a box.
In all seriousness, this is easily the most frivolous scientific study I have ever heard of and I can only hope that the scientists involved haven't managed to con anyone into giving them real money for it.
Gimme the god mode cheat code, that's all I'd want... Maybe noclip as well... Definitely level skip/select
It ultimately doesn't matter whether we are living in what could be described as a "simulation" or not. Whatever our universe "really" is at the core, what we do know is that its physical rules have been constant since shortly after the Big Bang, and it's been around long enough that I don't think we have to worry about anyone "shutting it off" anytime soon.
This makes it a fundamentally irrelevant question. Whether our universe is "real" or just a very, very well-done simulation, it's a difference that makes no difference.
This makes it a fundamentally irrelevant question. Whether our universe is "real" or just a very, very well-done simulation, it's a difference that makes no difference.
"Nothing unreal exists." - T'plana'hath, matron of Vulcan philosophy 
That was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics! You're getting your Vulcan philosophers mixed up."Nothing unreal exists." - T'plana'hath, matron of Vulcan philosophy
Oops. 
Again the assumption that our universe isn't the end, and there needs to be something that's wrapped around it. And what's wrapped around that?
This always puzzles me.
And besides that, shouldn't it be impossible for a simulation (a program) to prove that it is a program? Halting problem anyone?
This always puzzles me.
And besides that, shouldn't it be impossible for a simulation (a program) to prove that it is a program? Halting problem anyone?
Bacon
And around that? Even more bacon? Or cheese?
This question was answered a long time ago.
It's turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.
Turtles wrapped in bacon? That'd be a bit awkward.
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