Brian Whitworth’s latest scientific masturbation argues, that it is perfectly reasonable to conjecture that “the world is an information simulation running on a three-dimensional space-time screen”. Amongst his arguments, that are quite interesting at the first glance at least, is that the existence of quantum phenomena could be due to the underlying digital nature of the simulation. He also claims that his VR hypothesis can explain relativity, the big bang and more.
That alone would not be anything extraordinary, we have seen it many times before. However, he argues that it should be possible to perform experiments to prove the hypothesis, which is rather interesting. The reasoning is that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual…
Not only he fails to suggest what that imaginary thing would be, but my question is, how do we find out, what information processing in a universe that may be significantly different from ours can, or cannot do? And what if the simulation module would cheat on us, and deliberately fake the experiment results? ;-)
Also, this concept reminds me of religion, in sense that there are several phenomena that we cannot explain, so we suggest that they are the work of God, (or the VR almighty, makes no difference to me.) My argument is that this world is quite dull to be a VR simulation. There are way too many boring limits. Then again, it could be some early development version… ;-)
If nothing else, by pondering this alone, I have brought the creator’s attention to myself, so
should I disappear, or mysteriously change my mind, we will know something’s awry here. Then again, we will not, because the simulation system will clear its tracks. Darn, we are doomed to live in the Matrix! And my superpowers are long overdue…
