Kalash of Cultures - Pakistan: http://youtu.be/qEXnEfdvv6s The argument: 1. Watch the video; this Dardic mountain tribe plays polo. They fiercely fought for their independence through the ages, till the British arrived; at which point they adopted some British customs like playing polo on weekends (although they claim they invented the game first). 2. The Kalasha have lived in geographic isolation for so long that their DNA has diverged. But, there are markers to suggest that they come from around the Mediterranean(that is, that they are Dardic). There are 2 theories as to how they got there: a. They were travellers along the silk route who decided to settle in a scenic location and sell spices, apricots and cherries (the latter two do not grow in the subcontinent, only in the Mediterranean; and with no contact with the outside world for centuries, there's no other way they could've gotten these fruits) b. They are descendants of Alexander the Great 's armies; who ref...
Lemme see if I can find it ... there was a recent examination of this hypothesis that placed it outside of the potential of possibility due to the computational power required to simulate such a complex expression like what we call reality.
ReplyDeleteBy looking at one fairly simple interaction that is highly common and the computational power required to simulate it.. than multiplying it’s iterations they found our current universe does not contain anywhere close to enough “power” to run even a fraction of the interactions ...
This idea is in some sort mediated from the Plato's Cave Myth; a path that also The Matrix used.
ReplyDeleteIs not so difficoult move into this: brain itself is blind and deaf. All the think we know is just minimal energetic impulses and biochemical solutions, so, why not a reality into another reality into another one?
Another movie have to be seen on this topic is Inception.
Stoner undergrads love this question. Does it matter whether our reality is a simulation or not? It's the only layer/level of reality we can access.
ReplyDeleteIt only matters when the program reaches its conclusion. Does the program then get rebooted or deleted and do we as part of the program have a choice in the matter?
ReplyDeleteDaryl Whelan if we become aware of it being a simulation it opens up the possibilities of us directly manipulating the simulation.
ReplyDeleteWe could find the equivalent to a buffer overflow and inject our own routines 😈😈😈
Perhaps if we force enough matter into a black hole at once... with the last large arrangement of matter entangled with a quantum computational system.. we could transfer the coded routines into reality that controls ours?
Have you read Accelerando, Steven Curley? Because that sounds a lot like a minor plot point mentioned toward the end of the book.
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