![]() ![]() How do we as simulated characters leave Plato’s cave and walk out into the daylight of reality? We do so via our own rational-imaginative, simulative capacities-that is, via REM dreaming. The claim is that consciousness is essentially computer code or bits or “information,” and that information is fundamental to the universe. ![]() Note that such creation is consistent with the idea that consciousness is a fundamental element of the universe and that you cannot get consciousness from non-conscious matter. The simulation hypothesis depends on the claim that we or our descendants will be able to create such detailed simulations that the simulation will include creatures like ourselves with full dreaming capacity and with consciousness. Similarly, entanglement between two particles across vast distances occurs because they share the same coding and so on. Things in a simulation appear only when they are needed-when they are about to be, or are observed. The only things you need to code in a video game are the things that the players are going to see next. The observer effect in quantum physics for example is explained within simulation theory because fine grained visual detail in a computer game or simulation is never coded. Scientists have taken this hypothesis seriously I think because it offers interesting potential explanations for a number of previously unexplained physical phenomena. The simulation hypothesis states that we are characters in a computer simulation. ![]()
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