Simulation Theory
[related: The Labyrinth]
Many scientists now postulate that reality itself is in fact a Simulation, a mirror of a mirror... of a mirrorerror, a hypothesis supported by Quantum Loop Gravity- a theory claiming spacetime itself to be pixelated [1] like a computer monitor or a television screen. Supporters of Simulation Theory point to the inextricable emotional interwebbing of digital and physical reality in support of their argument. In fact, it has become common for the users of Virtual Portal Devices to develop strong emotional (even sexual) connections with their digital selves, or avatars [2]. Scientific studies, including the work of Donald Hoffman, point towards our perceptual system as limiting graphic interface - functionally, a representational means of navigation absent of any direct relationship with objective reality. Hoffman's vantage point both contradicts and supports the Quantum/Buddhist, with core reality (the Emptiness) knowable experientially but not conceptually in any kind of direct manner. However, QBW fails to account fully for the quantization (or, more pointedly, digitization) of space/time [3], the lack of a demiurge in such a generated/constructed system, the meaninglessness of physicality in a bit space (i.e., the holographic principal ), and the apparent similarities between the human experience of reality and our standard computational interfaces [4]
- ↑ The smallest unit of spatial measure being a Planck length.
- ↑ Ex. the end of Mega Man 2 , available on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- ↑ Speaking to an artificial or generated source.
- ↑ Some rogue simulation theorists have approached this issue in retrograde: perhaps humans are reflecting back core reality in our construction of advanced technology, perhaps "life" is an endless stream of digital reality constructions, a Russian doll of nested yet artificial (aka generated) realities, absent of any real intentionality, linearity, or deeper purpose. In the sense that time, as we commonly experience, is simply a construct or limiting device specific to this simulation. A parameter, if you will. Reality is a wild math animal, an almost infinitely complex algorithm generated by something like an endless field of neural networks set loose by a set of basic and clearly arbitrary constants (i.e., the speed of light). How could it not be constructed? Maybe this is what it means to be organic. Nature: an illusion. Physical reality: illusion. Somewhere (in the sense that we experience space), long ago (in the sense that we experience time) a being, a metaphorical or literal teenager, at whatever constitutes a computing terminal, sliding dials, seeding our world of cereal, love, and twilights.