Are we living in a simulation? - Zohreh Davoudi

Is our reality a detailed computer simulation? And how can we know for sure? Explore the scientific and philosophical theories surrounding this debate.

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All life on Earth— living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic— is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants. And this opens up a question: If the universe is completely governed by these laws, couldn’t a powerful enough computer simulate it exactly? Could our reality actually be a detailed simulation set in place by a more advanced civilization? Zohreh Davoudi investigates.

Lesson by Zohreh Davoudi, directed by Eoin Duffy.

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[nidus]

Simulation: *Starts thinking we are in a simulation*

Advanced civilization: *Intense sweating*

[CreepsMcPasta]

These are the questions I don't want to be asking myself at 3am

[rcgyikn]

I love how everyone is afraid that the AI we try to create may one day destroy us and then we question the possibility of us being the AI .

[dantesdad]

That circle going through the dots was surprisingly satisfying

[rivers]

Who ever is playing my character i wish they didn’t pick Veteran difficulty.

[j]

Meanwhile in sims: what if we’re in a simulation?

[imaminidonut]

I've been watching videos about us being in a simulation for days and keep thinking about it. Then it reaches to a point where i find that there's no point for me to be obsess about whether or not my life's a simulation because the moment i fall asleep and start dreaming, then wake up to realize I'm in the same body and life every day, i just know that i won't be able to escape from it. So what if it's a simulation? It still can't deny the fact that I'm still trapped inside a body being simulated. We're pretty much doing what we can and only capable of with this small body of ours. Where we yearn for miracles don't exist unless we try to make one out of it. .. or so, that's what i thought.

[TrenBullone]

Imagine dying and then someone takes of your VR headset and asks: “did you like the game?”

[waxalmighty]

What if we’re just some kids science project 😐

[burnburn]

**reads title**
Guess i'm getting my right dose of existential crisis for the week

[Scottypowpow]

Isn’t it crazy how death would answer every question you could ever wanna know about life and our existence.

[thermonuclear.warrior]

When I was 5, I always though we were in a simulation even though I didn’t understand the concept of it. I thought there was a different world that was like those cartoons in tv and we were built in this world that’s 3d. At the end, I was just small, I only imagined and thought.

[vedanshbudhia]

" If the world is a simulation, then déjà vu is a glitch in the matrix."
~Jonas Kahnwald

[Catlover.]

Whoever is playing my character doesn’t have any imagination. Cmon get creative with my life.

[halloweenville]

I recently went on holiday and stayed in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Never been there before. On the first morning i made myself some tea, and as i stepped outside on the balcony to look at the huge Pine trees, i instantly felt a dark presence around me, the strongest Deja vu i had ever felt.
Everything that happened over the next couple of minutes, i had already lived. I had stayed in that exact cabin, my partner was sitting opposite me with the same background behind him. I knew 100% i had already lived through the scene. either from a dream or a simulation of some kind. What i do recall was the feeling of someone or something hovering over me, and a dark shadow around me. And then it was gone in an instant.

[ebehdzikraa]

Strong hints that we live in video games or the matrix or simulation

1. Everythings on nature are based on math, algorithm and constant. Striking intention so it can be run on some kind of computer device

2. Everythings on fundamental level are quantized, other means of digitized. Striking intention so it can be run on specific kind of computer device, which is digital computer

3. It has distinct smallest unit of measures, not indefinately smaller. Similar to pixel in digital computer.

4. It has efficient rendering technique. Which is only render things when it being observed by the player. Once player is not observing, it going back to code and algorithm without need to be materialized

5. It has universal 'server tick' to synchronize everything and to avoid inconsistency around the simulated world. which is speed of light.

6. Since space and time are the output of algorithm, Anything unrelated to wolrd rendering algorithm, are not bound with space and time and can communicate instantly since it run outside the rendering algorithm. Such as quantum entanglement

7. Since almost everything is centered around the player, and almost everything is being rendered as per the player pbservation, not only future, but also any past time event is still on a form of code, and being rendered once the player is observing it. Thus, quantum delayed choice was happened

8. When the player dies, it could goes to spectator mode. Since the player viewport is not necessarily hard coded to the rendered body.

9. The player could go to different realm or mini games during sleep

10. There are millions of account and eyewitness, testimoning about them being experiencing some kind of glitches in the matrix

11. There are literal source code of higher level programming language, written and stored in every living things. That when compiled and run, it will create chemical nano machine that run autonomously based on previously written code.

12. Religious text that literally said "surely, this worldy life is just a game play, and the hereafter is better for the piety, dont they think it?"

[hodgepodge]

Me: *has finals tomorrow*
My brain: Isn't this a good time to have an existential crisis-

[antares]

Humans: Are we living in a simulation?
Our simulators: They must never know. But are we living in a simulation?
Our simulators' simulators: They must never know. But are we living in a simulation?
Our simulators' simulators' simulators: They must never know. But are we living in a simulation?
Our simulators' simulators' simulators' simulators: They must never know. But are we living in a simulation?

And so on...

[restmydudes]

"Keep spiraling through the existential void" I've been doing so for the past 20 years

[strange_and_magnificent]

The animation style is just perfect. 👍🏻