The answer to your question of, “why simulate reality?” Sheer boredom. When you are an infinite being, and there is nothing except You, it tends to get boring really quickly. So You simulate reality for however long until you get tired of your sim...
But you wouldn't borrow it if you're using it.... Unless it's so good that just looking at it gets you high which is fairly likely... So actually I guess "Its entirely possible."
Duuuuuuude.... This was a weird place on my phone. I expect this with a VR headset, but MY PHONE!! This was an awesome piece @Disrupt TV, another to add to your ever growing playlist of credits. Dude, you are winning this whole YT thing, seriously!!👌🏻😈🥰
I'm lying in bed, watching on my phone, so I can't really experience this video properly. It's trying to stay upright, while I'm horizontal. There should be an option to watch this in a standard format, instead of this bullshit.
this video is absurd. the 360 view, the fact that you probably thought the title was "What happens if we open reality.exe". just everything about it so great
The thing about fractals is that you wouldn't need an infinite amount of computer power to run a recursive simulation. You can run the simulation as arbitrary data and the simulation will create it's own graphics based on the algorithm. It's like pointing a camera at a screen.
Its crazy how people have been able to manipulate electricity to create things we can interact with, even without physical touching the screen. I mean, isn't that pretty crazy? Universe just happened to form perfectly. And humans just managed to get enough brain smart to go from fire making being the cool thing to electronics being a common thing among people. We're even getting close to air touch electronics.
To me, the most compelling reason to create a reality independent from our own is to fuel our only true desire. I like the way Schopenhauer put it, the will has no aim or purpose other than it’s own perpetual continuation. You know what they say about forever, snap your fingers and that’s how long it feels when you’re dead. So In a reality separate from the flow of time in our own universe, who’s to say the opposite can’t be true, maybe forever to you could be the snap of a finger to everyone else. You could experience all there is to experience, and like you mentioned, learn all there is to learn in an instant. Forever happy feels just sounds nice to me.
Truth is, everything humanity knows and ever will know will never be exactly what we think we know. Everything will be revealed when we are no longer limited by the physical.
The universe could be perceived as infinite, due to misconception, while being a simulated construct of finite dimensions. That’s is to say unknown boundaries could be mistaken as an infinite measure.
i've recently discovered VR, enjoying Half-Life Alyx for one. It's not a leap to imagine VR-tech getting so good that within 100 years it may be genuinely indistinguishable from reality...including the ability for the player to feel/eat/sleep during 'play'. If that becomes possible, then it's only a matter of extrapolation to imagine an entire VR universe. In a simulation, the question of 'enough computing power' is irrelevalant...as it's simulated!
Yep I'm going to stop eating shrooms because this video really put my already alternative state of consciousness into a very scary and overwhelming place. Please keep up the good work!
Even though math is a human language for describing reality, i remember 20 years ago I was getting my CS degree and working as an intern (before youtube), and one of my coworkers told me that with enough computing power, we don't need much storage except for 2 numbers, one for the starting index and one for the ending index in an irrational number like Pi to find all the things that have ever existed and just compute something like this video instead of having to store it all. It was pretty interesting to think about back then, but seems pretty tame by today's levels.
If our 'reality' is a simulation, then it begs the question: What is being simulated? From my experience so far, it makes more sense to conceptualize our 'reality' as being like some sort of MMORPG or open--world game. To be clear, I'm not saying that our 'reality' *IS* a simulation, game or whatever; merely that we could reasonably describe it in such terms as a means to better understand actuality. With that in mind, consider this: Your mind has accidentally become embedded within this 'game' and you've forgotten who you are in actuality. You've learned to identify yourself with this in-game character - your meatspace vehicle, i.e. your physical body - but the actuality of what 'you' are is that vast, expansive and bright awareness of your immediate experience. When you re-cognize that which is moving these bodies through the game-world, you can learn how to take control of it. That's when things get *really* interesting... GTA has got absolutely *NOTHING* on the wild ride of Samsara once you actually know what it's about!
An infinite loop paradox may seem implausible under the premise of a finite availability of computational memory, but what if each subsequent simulation of "ultimate reality" was a more deconstructed version of the simulation before it? Thus, each subsequent simulation of ultimate reality would actually require less memory than the previous, whereby the total memory available is astronomically large but still finite. Ultimate reality would essentially be the host of the first simulation, and every simulation built within the first would be a fractional partition of the whole. All simulations would be uniquely complex in their own right but less refined than their predecessors, until a mathematical singularity is reached. This wouldn't answer how ultimate reality exists in the first place, but perhaps how a seemingly infinite number of simulations within ultimate reality could exist.
Me earlier in the video on my phone: great I moved too much now the screen is to the side and I have to sit in a different position to see it Me after the video ends and I try minimizing the screen: oohhh I can move the camera with my finger...
So, we're never observing our "reality" in real-time. Because of the time it takes your brain to take in and process the information, no matter how short, we're always lagging behind "real reality".
I have literally always wondered if relativity and other basic physics would change in a different universe with different building blocks somehow. This is so cool that he was able to not only think of a way to make this work but actually carry it out.
It's like a ton of cells fighting because they either fight over who created it or ownership of even the happiness they seem pleasing to a creator. Even looking at the discovery of the boson. Did scientist even think that the boson the foundational building piece of energy would be smarter than the beings that found it?
Great video! A perfect reccommendation for the day I got my VR headset. I only wish I hadn't noticed that all the environments were still projected onto a cube
Complex properties emerge from the collective interractions of simple elements given enough time. That's basically how everything came to be from the Big Bang onward.
It wouldn’t require infinite processing power to simulate a recursive simulation. It would just use diminishing returns or diminishing processing or exponential decay. And it may not require a loss in rendering or quality either. You could just have everything reduce to a simulation early enough and have the programmed link to a finite amount of focus such that each simulation is less than double and occurs at the halfway point of the universe or earlier. Or you could make time non linear so that each simulation actually takes longer time but occurs with different rules of perception so it’s perceived as the same. You could also distort the time of the higher reality such that no additional processing occurs until the simulation is completed or like inception where an hour outside of the simulation feels like multiple lifetimes. In fact, the eventual goal of simulation is probably to avoid our inability to reverse entropy. So it stands to reason that we would design a way to preserve eternity in a finite moment of time.
You need a smallish black hole to allow for a computational holographic simulation of a universe. You can see the mathematics behind this on pbs spacetime.
If you guys could visit a virtual reality recreation of any movie, game, show or just a fictional world, which would you go to first? I'd certainly pick the Pokemon world, because not only is it a decent mix of relaxed life and action, but it also has a focus on going on an adventure, doing new things, making great friends and growing as a person, which would be a very healthy thing for my mind, I believe. And it's also very very exciting xd
Thanks. It seems to me that if we could accurately model the behavior of our universe - or even just our own galaxy - then we ought to be able to run experiments within it that we'd never be able to in our reality. One example would be running a particle accelerator the size of the Solar System. Another would be tweaking the fundamental constants to see what universe (if any) is created. Yet another would be to run our current model of the universe backward all the way to the big bang. These sorts of simulations are not guaranteed to work - they might just get so far & stop for lack of data - but it'd be worth trying! tavi.
As long as this universe is infinite then it doesn't matter how many infinite universes are simulated within it. We just need the technology to get things rolling.
I kind of disagree with the point that a simulated universe simulating other universes would require infinite computational power, because the power in the original simulated universe would itself be simulated, it wouldn't be coming from our universe. So my thinking is that the power for each simulated universe would come only from the universe that simulated it! Thought-provoking video :)
What if we did simulate reality--and what if we are in a simulation?--which did result in an infinite loop? Without infinite memory and CPU power would we be able to crash the simulation in which we reside?
if you open such a thing like reality.exe, it would have infinity to the power of infinity of simulations be created by the people in that simulation, and so on. if such a thing happens, everything, and I really do mean everything, would collapse in on itself. that collapse would create a black hole so massive that it would consume the infinite universe until the end of time. is a hell of a subject to learn about, but so dangerous to put into practice.
Quite deep and interesting video. One thing, before I say something about the main content, the question at the end about the clone. I think the question has more depth in it. Eg what are or should be the rights of a clone? Like, should we treat clones with free will the way as other humans or should they have less rights because they would be clones and the creators of the clones would have more rights than them etc.? It is a whole different topic by its own. Personally, I would have said that any clone with a free will should be treated like any "ordinary" person. I mean there wouldn't be any real significant reason why we should be morally acting otherwise, considering that the clone might have feelings, thoughts and emotions like us. And who knows, maybe we could be clones, too, but don't know it. To the main content. First and foremost, the video has great quality with nice visual effects. Also being 360 and VR optimized makes it up to an extent special. Then, the greatest highlight, talking about a very deep reality based topic makes it quite extraordinary. Discussing the possibility of the world being a simulation is quite relevant and meaningful. The "simple equations" and basic computation does not sound far fetched or nonsensical. It makes sense that complexity rises from simplicity. Though, I think like the topic and the discoveries could be discussed even more and there can be added more to it eg maybe a longer discussion round with more scientists and physicists involved etc.. Nonetheless, I got to say, great work.
Me 2 minutes in: Yes, ok, all these facts Also me: notices the 360 arrows, paused, faced backwards and then went back to the beginning to see the more screensaver-ish aesthetics
from someone studying meteorology: due to the butterfly effect and other similar phenomena, even if we could predict the motion and placement of every single atom in the atmosphere, we still wouldn't be able to predict the weather with 100% accuracy. basically, don't yell at the weather man on tv for being wrong ahaha
i really wish we had a way to turn of the 360 (including the alternate flat version) bc sometimes i just want to watch a youtube video laying down in peace 😫😫
You cant build an infinite tower of simulations because the physical machine at bottom level has to perform the computations for all the levels above it, not just the one directory above it, otherwise you could create a computational equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. You could simulate more computers to get more computing power for free.
every tine i watch a 360 vid i just scroll around til i'm dizzy just so i know i don't miss anything - and probably i still will i'm not blaming you but only myself 😭
