Question: If you were the god/creator of a simulated universe....

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Question: If you were the god/creator of a simulated universe....

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Would you allow it to be possible for being inside of your simulation to get "OUT" of it and potentially rival you?

I have been noticing lately that talk of our universe being a simulation is at least growing Even if perhaps there is not all that much evidence to prove it one way or the other.
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Doc wrote: Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:07 am Would you allow it to be possible for being inside of your simulation to get "OUT" of it and potentially rival you?

I have been noticing lately that talk of our universe being a simulation is at least growing Even if perhaps there is not all that much evidence to prove it one way or the other.
The evidence that our universe is a simulation is exactly zero, however, it is human nature to speculate.
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Re: Question: If you were the god/creator of a simulated universe....

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Typhoon wrote: Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:48 am
Doc wrote: Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:07 am Would you allow it to be possible for being inside of your simulation to get "OUT" of it and potentially rival you?

I have been noticing lately that talk of our universe being a simulation is at least growing Even if perhaps there is not all that much evidence to prove it one way or the other.
The evidence that our universe is a simulation is exactly zero, however, it is human nature to speculate.
Yeap. But please read my sig line for some context and substitute Metaverse for Universe
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The idea of your own creation destroying you...

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Re: Question: If you were the god/creator of a simulated universe....

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There is a God and He is not you. You lose this distinction you can toss everything into the bin. The answer to the above question is you justify absolute nihilism........
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Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:01 am There is a God and He is not you. You loose this distinction you can toss everything into the bin. The answer to the above question is you justify absolute nihilism........
True. The God concept is the asymptote that separates our logical descriptions of observed phenomenon from those that can never be defined logically.

Nihilism ensues when one decides that if a phenomenon cannot be understood logically it cannot be understood rationally either. Considering how few phenomenon fulfill a logical syllogism that’s an abandonment of thought.

I don’t get the simulated universe idea. I need an example of that.
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Re: Question: If one were the god/creator of a simulated universe....

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. . ., then one would have to a depraved sadist to impose a law such as the conservation of energy [or, more accurately, conservation of energy - momentum] on such a simulated universe.

Conservation of energy would, in turn, impose hierarchical food chain for any life in such a simulated universe: living organisms would spend all their time, aside from brief reproduction, eating while attempting to avoid being eaten.
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Re: Question: If you were the god/creator of a simulated universe....

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Someone once said (and don't ask me who) that " if it i possible for humans to create such a simulation then someone else did it before. "
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