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Comment by criloz2 | Hacker News Reader

I have been working the past two years trying to understand how would be possible to create a simulation of the universe and a lot of what Lee Smolin says resonates with some of the conclusion that I have got at the moment

for example, he says that the wave function describes an ensemble of possible states of a system, example an electron, and this is equal for all the other electrons of the universe, I will more specific and say that there is a Functor that describes all the possible states of the surface of any observable system and it behaves as a wave function when that system tends to the stability. (this can be related with holographic theory)

Lee Smolin that the universe is looking for maximum variability, which I think is not correct, the universe is looking for maximum stability in all matter hierarchies because it allows describing any possible surface with a Functor, and makes the simulation more easy to carry.

this is big because it means that is not necessary to simulate every electron on the universe to create a good simulation of itself, or every atom, or every molecule, or even so every planet, imagine the natural numbers, we don't need to create all the sets of the natural number in memory in order to use them and we can peek at any moment at any region of the natural numbers, while the memory support it, and we will be able to make any computation over them, so why the electron can not work like that, or any kind of matter?

those functors, are passed between two systems when a system observe to another system using what we have called photons. also when the universe can't describe the surface of the system with a functor that can easily be transported to the observer, this system appears as a black hole.

I am 100% sure that we live in a simulation, not necessarily made by "gods", but it could be a fundamental way in which the universe behave

I understand you have likely been looking into this for a while, but do you have any citations for any of this material? There are quite a few claims in here that need to be parsed out.

not at the moment, is something that I am formalizing, it just the general idea, Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, it will take time, but I feel that I am in the right path

Trying to make sense of that last sentence. Putting words in your mouth, but you mean that we live in a simulation, for some definition of 'simulation' that we don't yet fathom?

yeah, I think that simulation is the closest word that we have right now for describing it, like many other times a word tend to be overused to describe multiples related things, till a new word is invented

a simulation of what exactly?

'Simulation' has already been invented, and it pretty much exclusively refers to things that are not fundamental to how the universe works. So it would seem like the opposite of the closest word we have for describing how the universe fundamentally works.

Projection? Seems most appropriate for what seems to be essentially an argument for a reified Plato's Cave.

I will extend me a little and say that this is also important for AI, a good AI should be able to detect those "systems" and automatically transform then in wave functions

example when we walk, we tend to transform our walk patterns to a wave function, till some unexpected change in the ambient appears, this frees our brain and allow us to think in another thing. try to walk with a pattern that does not tend to stability, while that you will never be able to use your brain to do another task, just like you brain wants stability the universe also want it.

this phenomenon not only happens when we walk, we do this all the time at multiples level in the hierarchy of the mental models that we use for describing the world or our actions, which some times result in bad predictions but allow us to the think in other complex problems on a higher level of abstractions.

What you've written is extremely interesting. Not sure how much of it I truly understand, but I wanted to add that your explanation for everything as a wave function reminded me of oscilloscope music, ie. depicting images with waveforms. A tutorial I watched demonstrates the drawing of a mushroom, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. In my laymen's head model, Spacetime is like a very large wave that everything else is being modulated by.

Here's the relevant video: https://youtu.be/rtR63-ecUNo

very interesting video, and yes the whole universe is modeled by a wave function, but we probably will never get access to it because of it necessary to observe the whole surface to get it, is like an atom trying to get a wave function of your body, it has not enough information for that.

but in reverse it works, you can get a wave function of the probabilistic states of your cell just observing your surface, if you are dead, they will be dead just a simple example

we can observe the whole surface of the sun and get an idea when it will die (because we have access to its wave function), also we can make valid conjectures about the probabilistic state of every atom and subparticle inside the sun.

another interesting thing about black holes

gravity functor is very easy to communicate, it depends on an accumulator of mass, and it tends to stability, if the black hole is alone, it will be the mass of the black hole or is the black hole is eating matter, the mass of the black hole can be described as a wave function, just to be clear a wave function is any function which only domain is time (the independent variable)

while light needs to interact with a mass in a very complex way (reflection), if the inner system of a black hole is so unstable that the reflection cannot be collapsed to a wave function that will explain black holes

so if you believe me the functor that communicates the light will disappear, but the functor that communicate the gravity will be still there

can this mean that there is a system where the gravity functor is not stable?

And if you call it with the right parameters, you can fly.

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