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Are We Living In A Simulated World?
Are we all living in a simulated world ?
Scientists believe they have come close to solving the ‘Matrix’ theory.
The question of whether we live in a real world or a simulated one has plagued philosophers for centuries – but now scientists believe they finally have found a way to test the theory.
Professor Silas Beane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Bonn in Germany said that his group of scientists have developed a way to test the ‘simulation hypothesis’.
The idea has been debated by the greats of philosphy, from Plato to Descartes, who speculated that the world we see around us could be generated by an ‘evil demon’.
The film franchise The Matrix, also helped spawn the idea that what we think is our everyday life is in fact a simulation generated by an all-powerful computer.
But now more than two thousand years since Plato suggested that our only give us a poor reflection of objective reality, experts believe they have the riddle.
Professor Beane told Radio 4′s Today programme that his proposal could be the beginning of a new of discovery.
The test would see scientists using mathetical models known as the lattice QCD approach in an attempt to recreate – on a theoretical level – a simulated reality.
To identify what these constraints would be, scientists would have to their own simulation of the .
They hope to see whether such an exercise would be theoretically possible – and what the constraints on the ‘evil demon’ might be.
Read more here: http://www.etupdates.com/2012/11/12/are-we-all-living-in-a-simulated-world/
Interesting Theory. Another very smart person to pay attention to concering this same theory (although not reffered to as the “Matrix Theory”) is Tom Campbell. He is currently trying to decipher the TOE (Theory of Everything). You can find his youtube page here; http://www.youtube.com/user/twcjr44
watch a couple lectures it’s very enlightening.
I havent BSOD’d yet, must be a Unix based OS…
That explains all these Kernel panics in the stories on the site…