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Title: Elon Musk Claims We Are Living in a Simulation
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URL Source: https://sputniknews.com/society/202 ... e-are-living-in-a-simulation-/
Published: May 3, 2021
Author: Max Gorbachev
Post Date: 2021-05-03 11:20:42 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 862
Comments: 14

The debate whether everything around us, including Earth and the rest of the universe, is a computer simulation has been going on ever since Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom came up with the hypothesis. It was later popularised with the release of the sci-fi movie "The Matrix", in which humanity is trapped inside a simulated reality.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims reality is nothing but a simulation. A 2016 video has reappeared online showing Musk speaking at a Code Conference. The tech maverick was asked whether humanity is living in a "Matrix" type of existence.

The entrepreneur said the chances that everything around is real is one in billions.

"The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is the following - that 40 years ago we had pong like two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year and soon we will have virtual reality or augmented reality", Musk said.

The tech maverick added that the current tempo of technological advancement means that in future video games will become "indistinguishable from reality". Moreover, he suggested that humans will create their own realities in future.

"Either we are going to create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality or civilisation will cease to exist. Those are the two options", Musk said.

Incidentally, Nick Bostrom, who wrote a paper arguing that life as we know it, including ourselves, may be a computer simulation, believed that there is a 20 percent chance that this is true.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

"Either we are going to create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality or civilisation will cease to exist. Those are the two options", Musk said.

Sounds like VR will be the end of civilization -- its druglike power will wean people off of reality and they'll get lost in it, maybe ODing on crack to enhance the experience.

Did the simulation we're theoretically already in, are we merely its imaginary digital characters? Is 'God' the owner?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-05-03   13:59:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

Is 'God' the owner?

Only if God is a computer

Ada  posted on  2021-05-03   14:40:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#2)

What other kind of simulation could there be?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-05-03   14:57:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)

That's above my pay grade. Might be above Elon's as well.

Ada  posted on  2021-05-03   16:16:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ada (#4)

Pinguinite will have to solve the mystery ;)

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-05-04   7:01:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: NeoconsNailed, Pinguinite (#5)

If you want more info

Scientific American tackles the question

Ada  posted on  2021-05-04   9:16:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#7. To: Ada, NeoconsNailed (#6)

My personal view is that, yes, this universe we are in is effectively a dream world. It begins at birth, or actually some months before that, and it ends upon death. People liken death to falling asleep because that's what it looks like to us as we watch people die on their death bed, but to the person dying, I think their experience is much more like awakening from a dream which this whole life is.

Just like when we go to bed at night, we are aware of our whole life experience. But as we drift off to sleep, we enter a dream world which seems real to us and our real life experience fades into the background. When we wake up, we realize that all of it was not real, and nothing that happened in that dream really matters, and we are back in the real human world.

In the same way, I think upon death, we awaken in a full spiritual world state where we understand that our entire earthly life was just a dream of sorts, and nothing that happens here in terms of tragedy and loss really matters. Earth and this universe does serve a real purpose even though it's not real in of itself. As such, we are not primarily human. Our human nature is more incidental to our real selves, which is spiritual, much as the clothes we put on each day is incidental and does not define who and what we really are from one day to the next.

Mentally, we think we are fully alert to all that goes on around us, but we are not, just as in dreams we think we are in reality but it is not. Only upon death and exiting the body do we realize that, much as we do upon awakening in the morning from a dream state.

But.... what do I really know?

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