Cosmologic philosophy: our universe a simulation? (Introduction)

by BBella , Monday, April 25, 2016, 05:05 (3134 days ago) @ David Turell

To me this is the height of Sci-Fi foolishness:
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> http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-thinks-the-universe-might-be-a-simul... 
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> "...most physicists and philosophers agree that it's impossible to prove definitively that we don't live in a simulation and that the universe is real.
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> "Tyson agrees, but says that he wouldn't be surprised if we were to find out somehow that someone else is responsible for our universe.
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> "And if that's the case, it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just the creation of some other entity for their entertainment," Tyson says. "I'm saying, the day we learn that it is true, I will be the only one in the room saying, 'I'm not surprised.'"
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> Comment: I'm part of the universe. Am I simulated also?-Along with Tyson, I would be one in the room not surprised as well - since I have imagined this very idea since my earliest memories (way before true technology). But one of my favorite top movies of all time, The Thirteenth Floor, gives another spin more to my own thinking on the whole simulation idea. Yes, our bodies would be a part of the whole created simulation, but unlike Tyson's idea, it would not be "for some entity's" entertainment, but for our own.