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The Future Of Virtual Reality
How do we know our world is real and not an advanced virtual reality?
A few years back I watched a program on The BBC called Horizon. On that program, they were talking about time travel and the show ended with them basically saying that if time travel wasn't possible, then in the future, computers would be advanced enough to recreate perfect replicas of the past.
To quote the show. "Future civilisations could use computers to create exact replicas of the past. Unfortunately that idea has physics trembling in its socks. Because if you can generate a perfect virtual reality version of the past, who's to say we are not one of the replicas?"
In the show they spoke to a well respected physicist, can't remember his name, anyway, he said some things and he is convinced we ARE living in s virtual world and he isn't some nut, he's a well respected scientist. So, what do you guys think? Could we be living in a virtual world? I find that possibility to be very depressing. I hope it isn't true.
According to my friend Mervin the philosopher (hello Mervin!), it's actually much more likely we are in a simulated world than a real one, simply due to statistics; if we assume simulated worlds exist then there's no reason the simulation shouldn't come up with it's own (slightly less complicated) simulation; and so the chances of us being at the 'top level' are small (if such things exist).
But why is this depressing? The universe has always been a 'simulation' to you, a program that is running around you. Everything you perceive, you perceive as data entering your sensory organs; the universe is 'real' to none of us; it only seems that way because we have brains 
You will be long dead by the time it ends and you can see no difference between this and 'reality', so what's the difference? This IS reality, even if it's a simulation.
Feeling depressed about this is like missing something you not only never had, but that you never will have and in fact that you can't even think about! The only way living in a simulation would be a bad things is if we reached our limits of the simulation; either it ended, or we finally found out everything there was to know about it, or we mapped every area of space in it. But since it's fairly likely no human will ever do any of these things, since the sun will burn out in 5 billion years (before the universe "simulation" is predicted to end), I don't think you should lose sleep over it.
ADDED: and anyway, even if scientists created universe simulations, I don't think there's any way they could make 'replicas of the past'. That would involved the control of every elementary particle in our universe for the whole length of it's duration. If a simulation was created, it would be created to be similar to the one the Inventors were in, but i'm fairly sure it would quickly diverge and become something completely different. The idea of simulations doesn't mean everything has been done before and it is all fixed.
(And even if it did... do you think you have free will? If yes, then, again, what's the difference to you?)
Deathndoom: Ah, the old question, why didn't god (or the Builders) make the world perfect? Maybe it's because a perfect world is logically impossible; for a perfect world to exist, its characteristics would have to be narrow enough to not admit any human suffering, and that's quite narrow.
Consider this: by a perfect world, do you mean that there is no sadness? Then that means there must be no dying, not individually and certainly not in disasters. But if creatures don't die then world dies, since the food chain eventually breaks down. Even if it's only humans that live forever, we'd still consume the whole planet; and with eternal life-spans it wouldn't seem like it would take that long from our perspective.
For a functioning world to exist, there must be so-called 'imperfections'. Logically, a perfect world is not allowed to be any more complex than a child's storybook, or it will start breaking down to imperfection. And who wants to live in one of those.
(And in any case... why would they care about us? To them, we're just computer models, if the Builders exist they may not even think of us as properly 'sentient' compared to themselves!)
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The Future of Virtual Subjectivity or, from the Gloom Meteor by L1Aura Loire
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can't you use candles? they are about the same
lol yes lol
im actually a robot lol
Movies like Lawnmower Man & the Matrix scared everyone!
it comes with the hotel?
as in like a disney hotel right?
We will forget all these 2011 PS3 & 360 games that don't innovate what so ever. I hope the wii u will be cool. If not I'll Keep my Nintendo 64
i took ur advice and got grouned for one month thank