You do not exist.
The concept of the Ancestor Programme, more recently the Simulation Hypothesis, provides us with the knowledge that it is statistically near impossible that we exist in an authentic reality and almost certain that we are mere avatars in some xbox game.
Variants of the Simulation Hypothesis expounding the notion that this is not the true creation may be traced back to many ancient primitive cultures across the globe. Early philosophical crystallisation was offered by Pyrrhon of Ellis "sense experience and beliefs .. are in fact neither true nor false”. Sextus Empiricus developed the concept further “one may be either in a state of wakefulness or sleep. But it is entirely possible that things in the world really are exactly as they appear to be to those in unnatural states”. The Zen Buddhists involved themselves in the concerns of existence (but they are, of course, fools and so I choose to disregard them). Master Zhuang’s traditional fable proposes “While he is dreaming he does not know it is a dream, and in his dream he may even try to interpret a dream”. René Descartes allowed “The ability of the mind to be tricked into believing a mentally generated world is the "real world" means at least one variety of simulated reality is a common, even nightly event”. Lewis Caroll’s Red King dreams within the Looking Glass pages and should he wake……
Here is the inarguable logic:
Computing power has increased exponentially since the fifties (the advent of the modern computer age) and shows no sign of slowing, more likely it will accelerate - with petascale performance level data access and manipulation via cloud storage imminent.
Video games, empowered by the improvements to processing, have followed the trend of exponential advancement from Ping to the latest COD, ultra-realistic, smooth flowing graphics and populated by characters powered by AI capable of independent ‘off screen’ activity.
Eventually it will be possible to simulate the entire Solar System, even the Universe, especially if a conceit entitled ‘passing through the veil’ is employed, by which characters would be programmed to disregard perceptual flaws. However, the flaws could be probed and current lattice-gauge theory explores the possibility that our space-time is composed of discrete tiling, as might be expected in virtual simulation.
Once a video game of Universal simulation is made commercially available then the statistical likelihood of us existing in the authentic reality drops to almost zero – if there a millions of simulations then only one can be truly real, the odds against it being our own experience which is authentic are millions to one against. Worse still, unless one discounts entirely the possibility of Universal simulations being achievable then we must be existing within a simulation currently. As Nick Bostrom has it “Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation”.
For those whose curiosity is piqued please find further reading here: http://ift.tt/1K7Nbxs
You do not exist..
.
As you were gentlemen.
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
Arti-fic-ial!
The concept of the Ancestor Programme, more recently the Simulation Hypothesis, provides us with the knowledge that it is statistically near impossible that we exist in an authentic reality and almost certain that we are mere avatars in some xbox game.
Variants of the Simulation Hypothesis expounding the notion that this is not the true creation may be traced back to many ancient primitive cultures across the globe. Early philosophical crystallisation was offered by Pyrrhon of Ellis "sense experience and beliefs .. are in fact neither true nor false”. Sextus Empiricus developed the concept further “one may be either in a state of wakefulness or sleep. But it is entirely possible that things in the world really are exactly as they appear to be to those in unnatural states”. The Zen Buddhists involved themselves in the concerns of existence (but they are, of course, fools and so I choose to disregard them). Master Zhuang’s traditional fable proposes “While he is dreaming he does not know it is a dream, and in his dream he may even try to interpret a dream”. René Descartes allowed “The ability of the mind to be tricked into believing a mentally generated world is the "real world" means at least one variety of simulated reality is a common, even nightly event”. Lewis Caroll’s Red King dreams within the Looking Glass pages and should he wake……
Here is the inarguable logic:
Computing power has increased exponentially since the fifties (the advent of the modern computer age) and shows no sign of slowing, more likely it will accelerate - with petascale performance level data access and manipulation via cloud storage imminent.
Video games, empowered by the improvements to processing, have followed the trend of exponential advancement from Ping to the latest COD, ultra-realistic, smooth flowing graphics and populated by characters powered by AI capable of independent ‘off screen’ activity.
Eventually it will be possible to simulate the entire Solar System, even the Universe, especially if a conceit entitled ‘passing through the veil’ is employed, by which characters would be programmed to disregard perceptual flaws. However, the flaws could be probed and current lattice-gauge theory explores the possibility that our space-time is composed of discrete tiling, as might be expected in virtual simulation.
Once a video game of Universal simulation is made commercially available then the statistical likelihood of us existing in the authentic reality drops to almost zero – if there a millions of simulations then only one can be truly real, the odds against it being our own experience which is authentic are millions to one against. Worse still, unless one discounts entirely the possibility of Universal simulations being achievable then we must be existing within a simulation currently. As Nick Bostrom has it “Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation”.
For those whose curiosity is piqued please find further reading here: http://ift.tt/1K7Nbxs
You do not exist..
.
As you were gentlemen.
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
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