I mean there are some very deep things in physics that we cannot explain yet but outright bugs in logic?
So if it's a simulation, it's the best code ever or someone is patching the historical logs when a bug is fixed.
Maybe ghosts, poltergeists, and such are manifestation of bugs. This could be why these and other paranormal things are, well, paranormal--when the simulation detects a glitch, it pauses and the developers patch it. When the simulation resumes, the glitch is gone before we can scientifically investigate the reported paranormal event.
The obvious question is then why don't they also adjust our memories before resuming the simulation, so that nobody remembers seeing the ghost? One possibility is that they don't know how to.
We can see a similar thing in machine learning. If you trained a big neural net to, say, do word classification, you almost certainly would not be able to go in and tweak in a predictable way how it classifies a specific word by fiddling with the weights by hand.
Limitations on the developers' ability to tweak our memories could also explain much of myth and legend. Maybe so many cultures have old stories of dragons because there were really dragons in the simulation. When the developers removed dragons, they could take out the physical evidence (the dragons themselves, dragon remains and fossils), but not our memories, and so dragons became beings of myth as those with first hand knowledge of them died off and their descendants did not believe the stories.
At least I hope we're open source...
There are many limits to our universe; yet we explain them away, because if they were there; it would mean our ego's and bodies would be an illusion. Our ego doesn't like that.
Look very closely at the outer reaches of science, art and religion; and you will find cracks in this system. In buddhism, the discovery of these cracks is called nirvana, 'Moksha' in Hinduism, 'light being the fastest speed at which one can travel' in science; and the concept of 'Flow' in creative work. One can also refer to this as Egoic Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature.
Gosh I loved those movies.
If we are in a simulation, then it is not a given that the simulation does not get "rolled back" and restarted from an earlier point regularly, or just ditched and started all over again if/when bugs are found, just like a researcher will empty and clean his petri dish when he notices contamination that'll ruin his research.
Assuming the purpose of life is not to self destruct then we most certainly have a bug in our system. Whoever wrote Quake wrote better code than "God".
That sounds fascinating but also a bit hard to believe. Can you give a link to that story?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/quake-3-arena-wor...
good story tho
God is a perfect programmer?