This is really cool, leaves me wondering about the fabric of the universe itself
Could we be living in a infinitely recursive simulation?
Could we be living in a infinitely recursive simulation?
Also, because the simulation is infinite and speeds up and simplifies itself as you zoom out, you don't properly appreciate the fact that every layer is a thousand times slower than the layer that simulates it and contains a thousand times less cells (I don't know if it's a thousand). If you transposed this to the real world, it would take one kilogram of computing substrate an hour to simulate one gram of matter for 3.6 seconds and that's kind of useless.
People have tried to explain the universe with cellular automata and so far none of these systems has even been consistent with our current observations of the universe, let alone predicting some new behavior that would allow us to prove or disprove that the theory was true. (If your theory doesn't predict anything new, it's not a new theory at all!)
Requiring infinite recursion of cellular automata would seem to make the whole problem much harder...
It's not that your statement is false, but that there is absolutely no consensus on the matter.
Some physicists make strong arguments that at the big bang the total energy of the universe was 0:
This simulation is a finite amount of information being used to describe an infinitely large simulation.
A system whose fundamental nature can be modified / controlled by ideas spawned within the system itself would be extremely cool.
I think a decent argument could be made that we may be in just such a system.
.. a feeling deep in the pit of my stomach.
Does anyone else sometimes get these "intuitive flashes of insight" - like your brain configures itself in a pattern that "lifts the veil".
I've been thinking of starting meditating to stabilise or cultivate this state if possible because i've feel like i've been losing this slightly psychedelic ability since i was a kid.
Most often i get it in the hypno/hypopompic phases, sudden flashes of eureka that disappears just as fast, like a loud echo of "wow this is existance", "time is unbelievably deep", "demensions and perspective are bizarre in essence", "is this just a fraction of a shared dream" etc.
Does that make any sense?
My challenge to people chasing 'aha', is to see how long you can stay in the present moment.
I think the presence of this subjective choice forces a subjective experience into existence with the free will to decide it. Though I haven't a clue how the characteristics of the experience are chosen - that's also a subjective choice. It's subjective choices all the way down.