Simulation Theory

Have you ever played a video game that felt so real you forgot you were playing? Simulation Theory asks: What if our whole world is a super-advanced computer game? In this idea, nothing is just the computer being turned off, and something is the code running. The rules of science are like the rules of the game. It teaches us to look for the code in nature, like the way DNA tells our bodies how to grow.

If you were inside the game, you would not know you were inside the game. The code looks like physics. The physics looks like code. Look closer.

Bostrom's Simulation Argument: if advanced civilizations can create ancestor simulations, we are statistically likely to be in one. Intersects with the Holographic Principle: the 3D world as projection of 2D information. If reality is informational (I = log₂N), substance of existence is bits, not matter. Being is a state of processing.

SOUND: The electronic beep of a computer starting up.

SMELL: Warm plastic or electronics: the smell of a machine thinking.

TASTE: A synthetic fruit flavor like a gummy bear.

TOUCH: The smooth glass of a tablet or smartphone screen.

SIGHT: Tiny pixels you can see if you look very closely at a screen.

BODY: That strange feeling of lag when you are very tired: the system buffering.

Music: Brother by NEEDTOBREATHE

Part of Existence & Being — PHILOSOPHY — Education Revelation