I believe the universe and reality itself is a computer simulation

This makes sense to me. I mean everywhere around you there is mathematic formulas that dictate how the universe works. You have things in nature that can't be explained such as the golden ratio and fractals. I believe our universe is a computer simulation, which may be running inside another simulation, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q1LCVknKUJ4

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/11/physicists-may-have-evide_n_1957777.html

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/11/universe-computer-simulation

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/

http://news.discovery.com/space/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation-2-121216.html

Cool story.

how was the computed created or came into existence? Rich3232

[QUOTE="Rich3232"]how was the computed created or came into existence? mingmao3046

Sounds silly to me but then a lot of people believe the universe was created by some sentient being. It's no more stupid than believing that I suppose.JohnF111

[QUOTE="mingmao3046"][QUOTE="Rich3232"]how was the computed created or came into existence? Rich3232

[QUOTE="JohnF111"]Sounds silly to me but then a lot of people believe the universe was created by some sentient being. It's no more stupid than believing that I suppose.mingmao3046

We may live in the MAtrix. Scientists are testing it now

If the universe is a computer simulation, how come it doesn't hiccup or lag? Why hasn't it restarted? And why not shut it off and start again when people start to think it is just a computer simulation?river_cheri

[QUOTE="river_cheri"]If the universe is a computer simulation, how come it doesn't hiccup or lag? Why hasn't it restarted? And why not shut it off and start again when people start to think it is just a computer simulation?mingmao3046

[QUOTE="mingmao3046"][QUOTE="river_cheri"]If the universe is a computer simulation, how come it doesn't hiccup or lag? Why hasn't it restarted? And why not shut it off and start again when people start to think it is just a computer simulation?river_cheri

I'll have what hes having michael_1234576

Red pill

This has always sounded stupid to me. Just think about it. What ever computer we're being run on has been turned on for like well over a trillion years and the question could then just be asked, what created our creators? Also just be self-aware, do you feel alive? I sure do. I can guarantee no computer controlled AI you've killed in any game feels like that.

Whether it is or not I don't really care. Wouldn't change anything.

This has always sounded stupid to me. Just think about it. What ever computer we're being run on has been turned on for like well over a trillion years and the question could then just be asked, what created our creators? Also just be self-aware, do you feel alive? I sure do. I can guarantee no computer controlled AI you've killed in any game feels like that.

sune_Gem

This has always sounded stupid to me. Just think about it. What ever computer we're being run on has been turned on for like well over a trillion years and the question could then just be asked, what created our creators? Also just be self-aware, do you feel alive? I sure do. I can guarantee no computer controlled AI you've killed in any game feels like that.

sune_Gem

This has always sounded stupid to me. Just think about it. What ever computer we're being run on has been turned on for like well over a trillion years and the question could then just be asked, what created our creators? Also just be self-aware, do you feel alive? I sure do. I can guarantee no computer controlled AI you've killed in any game feels like that.

sune_Gem

Neo! What are you doing on OT?

Get off GameSpot and go save the computer world, dammit!

This has always sounded stupid to me. Just think about it. What ever computer we're being run on has been turned on for like well over a trillion years and the question could then just be asked, what created our creators? Also just be self-aware, do you feel alive? I sure do. I can guarantee no computer controlled AI you've killed in any game feels like that.

sune_Gem

So have us people in this simulation become self aware? or was that also input by the programmer? dun dun dunnnndramaybaz

[QUOTE="dramaybaz"]So have us people in this simulation become self aware? or was that also input by the programmer? dun dun dunnnnKC_Hokie

The brain itself is a organic computer. The creator(s) gave it to us and every other extraterrestrial in our universe, so that we can one day find a way to break out of the universe (or simulation). This can explain why space is so vast and why this goal is almost impossible. Our objective as humans is to keep reproducing and our technology to get better, so that we can finally meet our makers.

Keep in mind that when we die, nothing happens. It's exactly like before we were born: darkness. Which is merely the cyberspace of all cyberspaces. When one day our future generations somehow break out of this simulation (Which can take millions or billions of years), everyone becomes reborn. What this means I cannot say, and every question that mankind ever asked will be answered.

Stuff like the Dark ages, wars, religion, and even kittens had and will continue to forever prolong this journey. I truly hope we don't wipe ourselves out, or else we would have to rely on another alien species to end this tyranny.

Makes more sense than organized religion with divine magic people performing miracles.KC_Hokie

how was the computed created or came into existence? Rich3232

[QUOTE="KC_Hokie"]Makes more sense than organized religion with divine magic people performing miracles.Aljosa23

We may live in the MAtrix. Scientists are testing it now

BPoole96

MIT: Why The Universe Is Not a Computer After All

[QUOTE="dramaybaz"]So have us people in this simulation become self aware? or was that also input by the programmer? dun dun dunnnnKC_Hokie

[QUOTE="BPoole96"]

We may live in the MAtrix. Scientists are testing it now

wis3boi

MIT: Why The Universe Is Not a Computer After All

Neo! What are you doing on OT?

Get off GameSpot and go save the computer world, dammit!

Goyoshi12

You're high on Star Ocean 3, aren't you?

I don't even debate about things like this. "Nothing exists, we are (insert some obscure reasoning to support stupid reasoning here).

Why bother? I think everything comes down to faith. Why do you get up in the morning? Something drives you forward, faith in something.

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[QUOTE="sune_Gem"]

This has always sounded stupid to me. Just think about it. What ever computer we're being run on has been turned on for like well over a trillion years and the question could then just be asked, what created our creators? Also just be self-aware, do you feel alive? I sure do. I can guarantee no computer controlled AI you've killed in any game feels like that.

mingmao3046

If we never even created computers this belief wouldn't even exist. It's just people getting hyperactive with their imaginations. Films like The Matrix helped it too.

Either way, who cares if we are or not? This is how things are going to be give or take. Maybe our creators programmed something nice for us in death which was never understandable while alive, which would technically be better than being the creators themselves as we're eternal and they may very well not be.