World is Not a Simulation”
Vina R. Reyes
The world we live today contains a lot of unanswered questions. One of these questions is does the world we live today in reality or real. Reality is defined as the world or the ate of things as they actually exit as opposed to an idealistic/ national idea of them. It is the state of/quality of having existence/ substance. There is no evidence concerning the reality of the existence of the world and using the concepts of Hinduism, whoever achieves moksha, which is the perfect understanding of everything will join the brahman, or the world soul, making the “evidence” exist in a place where we can’t contact them. Therefore, the world is not a simulation and is real.
The ancient mathematician Rene Descartes even had a famous quote: “I think; therefore, I am” which stated that he is real and his ideas were real. In Savage’s proposal, he discovered that the simulation experienced “errors” and imperfection which coincides with Bostrom’s last statement: almost a simulation. If we are just simulations then how come it has errors since they can control everything. It means that the error came from the “characters”, us, controlling the game, the world, instead of the game controlling us.
Making an entire universe is nearly impossible since its need many trillions and trillions of atoms and another limiting factor to it was our consciousness. It cannot be simply made or simulated. It cannot be controlled since it is the one that controls the body. It requires many lines of code in which some are to be discovered in the future. It is impossible to simply write these codes since it takes many generations to finish the whole consciousness code. The storage also needed is still in progress since no storage capable of handling trillions of codes is currently present. Therefore, making the simulation impossible. The world must go through various improvements in order to achieve its goal.
Another main factor is that if there are actually supernaturals existing among us, how come they didn’t send any message to test if we are actually conscious. It is debatable whether we really exist but there is no actual proof that there are supernaturals controlling our life; moreover they aren’t actually controlling us but rather we are controlling the world. We are just like rebels who would like change and the supernaturals as the government but how come they are not doing an action against us?
The reality is impossible to make or to remove since it embodies a human being and has specific characteristics which makes it of his own. It has a conscious mind which makes him feel everything he sees. Many individuals have tried to defend the simulation hypothesis but it exhibited a major flaw. It experienced errors due to the consciousness of human beings interfering with what the “controller” asks for. If we are just a simulation then how come we can control our decisions?
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The author is Teacher III at Pampanga High School