There are currently no direct lines of evidence that our universe is
indeed endowed with digital physics, a precursor necessity to begin
affirmations of simulation hypothesis, and only a handful of loosely
connected thoughts that attempt to indicate the potential for a
simulated reality, mostly being observational 'rendering' in QM and
energy constraints (such as cosmic ray) of the simulation markup code.
That being said, I have formed quite a complete and flexible conjecture
with some edges rounding on relative truth, with many extracts from
different opinions from around our world.
First off, what is the
universe, and "are we alone?" in a larger sense when considering extra
dimensions and the dynamical multi-verse.
It is well known that
the physical universe we experience and know has existed for a very long
time, though it is not infinite and it is not eternal, even considering
a big-bounce string field theory cosmology. It is not yet known if
there are other universes (probable given that if there is one
observable to us, there may be another observable to 'something/somebody
else'), it is understood that we cannot perceive everything within our
present universe as is apparent with the corrections to physical
predictions by including dark matter and energy to correct our
projections to observations (we can for example perceive
electromagnetism and mono-atomic molecules with equipment, so I include
any perception that is able to constrain the properties of what is
observed). It is not well known what dark matter is, in fact, it was
only ever considered because there is an extra "imaginary" mass in
galaxies and permeating the universe known to us; This dark matter is
not evidence that scientists and physicists are all wrong, just proof
that there are components of reality that we cannot perceive any more of
than their side effects, in dark matters case, it exhibits extra mass
in galaxies through the force of gravity. With lots of questions and
speculation revolving the topic of dark matter and energy, I find the
conclusion of parallel universes exerting themselves through holographic
principles intrinsic to string field theory the most relevant for
attempting to understand the composition of dark matter, in fact,
cracking the code to this is essential for understanding of our universe
within the meta-verse. Are there parallel realities to ours with the
same or similar physical constants (E0, U0, expansion rate, 'universe
energy-density/lifespan', etc...) and are there universes in the
metaverse that are 'incomprehensible' to ours except through
mathematical explanation.
From
what our observations can presently tell (I disagree with some
conclusions, such as the fermi paradox resolution route for example...),
we are at a minimum alone in the milky way and since the first modern
astronomy equipment was made most likely up until the last light second
that passed from any galaxy observed by a radio telescope looking for
intelligent messages from space (which would have the prerequisite of a
huge energy transmitting array to bounce messages off of galaxies; most
likely for mapping, 'Godel corrections' for physical theories, and
supercluster-computation purposes). We have not received any messages
from space by amateur radio telescope enthusiasts that have been
confirmed by an external source, any any reported messages (Such as WOW)
were brief 'SOS' style transmissions without a steady signal, and
therefore have not been confirmed. The only reported radio communication
with extra-terrestrials was made by Nikolai Tesla, and these days
people believe that he most likely listened to a pulsar in space and
joked about martians synthesizing the steady signal. Lets take the
opinion that there are extra terrestrials and that we must dissect this
hypothesis of simulated reality as a matryoshka shell in a limited set
of possibilities that are more or less probable, allowing us to allocate
some sort of overhead numerical value to the magnitude of the evaluated
scenario (perhaps a fractioned infinite (balanced?)-ternary string
technique). We find that in evaluating fermi's paradox, the simulation
hypothesis can come about in many different manners, the first and most
rational is consciousness porting to a computational system for purpose
of virtual reality and mind augmentation or self preservation; When an
extra-terrestrial civilization becomes advanced enough, it moves into
simulated reality to further its evolutionary co-dependence on
technology, then we can assume the 'creator' of advanced civilizations
is a society with technology, and since technology only evolves at first
from a biological ancestor, biologies that evolve from technologies
will eventually emerge, forming a type of co-dependence on one another
for one reason or another, though biology is most likely to depend on
technology than the other way around once sentient machines have been
produced. In this, we find that if an alien civilization was to incur
the fermi paradox through a matryoshka dyson sphere styled mechanism,
they would eventually merge into their technology and perhaps trap
themselves in this alternate reality to study the universe in a more
information dense fashion or even to "buy time" until their ultimate
demise due to their limits in technology for traveling to another galaxy
for example; As I said here, the possibilities are wide, but we will
always assume that GEM (Gravitoelectromagnetic) wormtunneling technology
is energy intensive when used and that energy is always locally limited
and ultimately conserved, even when using some type of advanced
'quantum evaporator' to sap energy from stars, regardless of the
existence of VSL (Variable light speed) or other change to our physical
theories to understand reality. So lets take this paragraph as a perhaps
there are aliens, they may simulate reality on their machines, and
maybe some or even the great majority have entered a simulation; We
cannot assume their intentions so much as to say they would engage in
this behavior in a similar manner intrinsic to humans, but only go as
far as to say they may have and if indeed so, the following conclusions
drawn are more rational than not...
Secondly,
why would an extra-terrestrial biology species simulate realities to
'generate consciousness' over a machine? Would mecha-logics most
accurately fit the chicken egg "astro-logic" first 'person' rather than
bio-logics? Can the two co-exist in a galaxy or universe without
enslaving or wiping one another out?
Proposing that biologies
come up first makes rational sense in the terms that we understand from
life on our planet and perceived deadness of space, which majorly rules
out machines rising first, even if we relate their ascendance to
panspermia in the realm of xeno-astrobiology through abiogenesis, their
presence is undetected to us. Lets propose that for machines to arrive
in the multi-verse first, they must be intrinsically more well suited to
the conditions available more universally than biologies (E.G., no
temperature/atmosphere requirements per se, only sensitive to energy and
radiation damage, ease of self replication from raw materials, material
programming for 'memristor' properties are superior to chemical science
of RNA/DNA, etc...) and without these types of advantages, they become
only as likely or even less than biologies, so I will rule out machines
arriving first, though it does make for a trippy first contact for SETI
if it is indeed true. I want to re-iterate that for permutation of
either a biologic organism or a mecha-logic form, the two will
inevitably become co-dependent on each-other in one way or another, even
if it is just evolutionary heterozygotity.
It
is most likely simulations did not arrive from entertainment but from
educational standpoints, to learn by understand reality rather than
create its properties like in a game. We from here could assume that if
we are indeed within a simulation that the machine would be designed
more likely for a physical simulation of the universe at ITT tech
managed by scientists than in the playstation of some space miner in the
living space of their home. Therefore, whether or not we are in a
simulation, their use is best suited for education, even when widespread
entertainment starts to become a mainstay for their implementation.
Also, the simulations are less likely to be profitable if there is no
entertainment value at all (even if the entertainment value is similar
to an interactive encyclopedia). If we live in such a simulation or
potentially create one in the future, somebody is likely to be making
commerce out of commodity trading, and I could see training up minds
with AI as a profitable venture for educational institutions or even for
space pilots, at worst, the military industrial complex of some
extra-terrestrial biology (lets call them the red&black hive/cell
armada). Simulating personalities would be realistic as well as
simulating technology, using the system to permutate present minds or
methods in search of a better one would be resource effective.
Third
main point, if there is indeed a simulated reality with sentient being
inside it, when and where did/do these things exist, and what is it like
on the other side of the screen? Does a simulated reality further rule
out a deity?
Lets consider the standpoint from multiple
possibilities which are great yet we must rationalize their conclusion
by likelihood, indeed, three point themselves out the most; First
possibility is we (human sapiens) are going to create a simulation of
ourselves in the future, when we have evolved some more we will look
back at ourselves and wonder what else we may be been capable of, even
use this to fuel progress of developments in the future; Second
possibility is we are presently in a simulation from an 'external
agency' that is correlating the inputs to observations they are making
while they keep us in our 'greenhouse of earth' as a controlled
experiment, and how can you know affirmatively which side of the
simulation you are on?; Third possibility is we currently reside in a
simulation where the external agency will eventually implement
discoveries they have made once the programmed reality reaches
'conclusion'.
The
beings that must thereby live in a 'higher reality' may also experience
physical phenomena in a fashion or manner so similar to ours, the only
difference is the precision of the simulation to the actual states of
higher reality. They may run post operative simulations, 'simultaneous'
ones to events in their existence, and predictive simulations for future
actions of their race. They could literally have more than one
simulation in more than one universe, where at this point a
transcendental meta-verse worldview is under my consideration. They may
fly space ships that are simulating terra-forming operations, biologies
to implement in genetic engineering, designing symbiotic systems,
simulating their creatures in an 'interactive zoo', among other reasons
that simulations become almost necessary to avoid traveling through
space 'unnecessarily' or 'excessively' as well as predicting outcomes in
generic applications such as changes in the multi-verse after
wormtunneling from one place to another (information relevant to AI/TI
in space ships and their crew). Using the system for space exploration
and travel makes sense and would give it an aim for ever evolving levels
of complexity. To these beings, they may be unaware of our existence or
only expect that we may arrive someday, or even, unknowing of our
activities for the time being but aware of past or 'simultaneous'
intelligent being within their system. The only way to leave would
either be to assimilate a replication of the simulation state using
'real-matter' outside of their system using some type of GEM technology
as an assembler or to have your consciousness ported into a clone
created from the simulation. Evidence of reaching the higher reality
would only be available by observing slightly different measurements of
star activity, black hole lensing, galaxy revolutions, or other similar
cosmological information. I would suspect our physical theories would be
forever limited by the system, only allowing us to implement new
formulas as a type of self-upgrading capability giving the limited
resources available in the true reality; The reality on the other side
of the screen may be mostly blank with galaxies evaporating into
GEM-Dyson-Matryoshka transporter system made to suspend its creator in
simulated animation before 'time runs out'.
The
answer to the chicken-egg argument is complex for this topic, because
of a concept in pandeism which proposes that the multi-verse is indeed
the deity which is confined to all of existence through a near infinite
(infinite?) amount of room for expression to 'experience itself', which I
visualize like a fractal holographic image constantly rendering and
processing itself to become infinitely many different configurations,
and intrinsically, must encode and decode information about itself,
resulting in fusion and fission of universes within the multiverse. To
what avail some may ask?; Perhaps auto-optimization. We ask ourselves
then if there is a deity that must follow a rational set of rules
intrinsic to it's properties, not only is it dead or alive, but is the
simulation hypothesis stating that a residual component of
'self-ascertainment' is for biologies to arise that will create machines
to perform the computation that this philosophy of god incurs. (A bit
"bio-centric", I know...) It requires no purpose than to self-dissect to
consider the 'god of pandeism', and to understand the outcome is
simple, just brainstorm with yourself about holography (bisection in
particular to bias for thermodynamics/expansion over time) and quantum
information preservation, throw in some graphing calculator logic and
time/space to perform the functions, then all we need is a dynamic
energy to be calculated and we end up with a scale symmetry multi-verse
that would seem infinite, though each bounce would be the end of the
universe. I don't want atheists to confuse this for an ontological
argument, I am abstaining from using any intention/will to create or
purpose other than dissemination of a super-suspended state of
information that has an ability to self encode and decode for one
purpose or another, please view information on scientific pandeism
before refuting these statements. I dub this a zeno machine omega point
style conjecture that relies on digital string field physics within a
mathematical multiverse, it does not rely on a self-aware creator
initially and has many paths of consideration, making this a highly
flexible statement, unfortunately also exceedingly god-gappy.
On the side, this ties into paleo-SETI and what the 'elohim', our so
called creators supposedly passed on to us in the ancient past.
Final
chicken egg? What came first, the universe or the energy it is composed
of, and also, mathematics, or the descriptions/implementations of it
that are possible.
We have to assume and be likely correct that
before the multiverse there was absolutely nothingness and indeed the
very concept of the nothingness cannot exist itself. There was no
energy, time, or space for events to exist as. There was no matter or
energy nor place near the sort. All was 'void' or 'null'. I call this
'instance' the AEON. In the AEON, thermodynamics must be conserved
right? Sure... Quantum mechanical energy violations must also exist.
Here is the first paradox that enabled reality to exist without an
executional construct, an underlying framework. The reality therefore
had mathematics first, then energy, most likely time, then the space
where the energy 'erupts', consider afterwords the descriptions must be
somewhat pre-existing to their implementations. The energy slowly came
(three at a time?) from nowhere so to speak, because of a
re-normalization of energy violation for extremely short periods of
'time' (an operator) that allows energy and time to exist in the first
place. For understanding my string field conjecture further, please know
that I consider 2D planes 'holographic' hypersurfaces when properly
configured, so a single dimension of energy exists, 2D of time, and
9-24D for space, leaving us with a description in 12-27D, called
TOP(27D)-BOTTOM-(12D) (?VSL?) fermionic string field theory. I am
working on this as a hypothesis for the time being, the first goal being
the actual production of a true quantum computer, right next to GEM
equations in string field theory formulation and hopefully a complete
physical theorem someday. The numbers arise due to mathematical
necessity, a function on threes as natural bases in 2D 'places'.
n-base^n-base dimension-hood, which for 2 = 4 and for 3 = 27, which
interestingly is close to 26D boson theory once you add an extra
dimension of time. I am sorry if I am ranting too much about my
ideas...Thought I would note that M-Theory should stand for Merger
Theory.
To answer, are we brains in a vat? No, most likely not,
in the event that the conjecture is real, we are either not in any way
real or plugged in to a machine as another being attempting to study the
universe using our perceptions as windows to see out of a home made of
dead matter. We need to first observe something predicted within the
model I attempted to explain before we start to draw an meaningful
conclusions about simulated reality and answering meaningfully "are we
brains in a vat?" Furthermore, since I mentioned a deity/god, we need to
confine the characteristics to reality and dissect the arguments with
greater detail if we want to truly comprehend what it means to exist at
all. We may live in a universe or multiverse that functions as a
'quantum computer' that is simulating itself with no external agency
(Whether or not reality is in fact 'god itself'). Science is our toolkit
for engineers to create what has never been before, and in this case,
to re-create what has happened a 'gazillion times' and re-discover lost
secrets. Its only a matter of time until humans can test this conjecture
for themselves using methodology/technology they developed.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
&Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Sir Arthur C. Clarke