Src: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50/
It is mentally paralyzing to think of the possibility of us being simulated. Yes! What if the whole world, so certainly us, are a part of computer simulation. Maybe like an android Sim2 game we are just (literally) played by a kid who is tirelessly on his phone despite his mother's complaints. As in Sim we might feel tired, sick, emotional, etc. Or what if a computer is trying to discover what happens if human has greed and they try to mock the "real" unsimulated human with an exception that it is greedy, and we are the simulated versions.
The problem with this question is that it ia hard to logically go for one side. So technically whatever answer we get, is, hmmm, useless(?)
One of the most effective ways to argue against thia possibility is the scenario of the limited computational resource. If the resources to do the simulation are low enough that the stupid rebel kid playing Sim2 is made to do some resource management, it is highly probable to be caught. What does it mean? Have you play any game that new parts of game environment are loaded as you go on? Because instead of rendering and computing the whole environment, rendering the parts that are actually observable at the moment would save lots of resources. So the question comes down to wether this asynchronousness can be found in our lives?
Aside from this arguement, I (Reza) am thinking about another aspect of the problem. Usually simulations have a purpose. Like (a) optimizing something (b) guessing the side effect of some decisions (c) testing your what-if's and/or (d) assessong possiblity of some random but unlikely thing (e) the list goes on.
The question is, assuming we are simulated bits typing this multi byte blog post, what are the purposes of simulating us? A fun goal is to check whether we can understand if we are simulated stuffs!
P. S: The awesome fact about this post was its scientific referencing that make the writing highly reliable. I will read further posts from "Scientific American"
