“No. We Don’t Live In A Simulation” The nonsense of “living in a simulation” is

“No. We Don’t Live In A Simulation”

The nonsense of “living in a simulation” is a series of attention-seeking, misinterpretations, fictions, and pseudoscience based on ignorance.

The universe *IS* quite accidentally (or deterministically) computing something (persistence), but it’s not a simulation. And the fundamental laws of the universe exist and persist because they evolved the only means of their survival – just like every other property of the universe that evolved from those fundamental laws.

We are, each of us living in an experience that consists of perception (existence) competing with an overlay of auto association we call prediction (imagination) and then shifting our attention as we do focusing between something near and something far.

We maintain different focuses, so some live more in the world of existence (present), some of us in imagination(thinking), some of us closer to dream state (disconnected).

So it’s understandable that some ‘pseudoscientists and philosophers and nonsense-speakers’ would try to preserve mysticism and woo woo by claiming we live in a simulation.

We dont. We see as much of the world as we can act upon. Because that’s all it’s useful for us to see, hear, feel, smell, and disambiguate into a model we can act in. But just as the camera sees the world as it is, so do we. We break the world into bits (disambiguate it) by means that allow us to move through and act on it. Just like any and all sentient life in this world or any other.

The only ‘miracles’ are:
… a) we percive a three dimensional world at a scale we can move through. This hippocampal magic is the most fascinating part of the brain. The rest is simple by comparison.
… b) We have developed enough brain matter in enough of a hierarchy to recursively think about thinking (consciousness).

The rest is just tediously boring physics really.

The age of philosophy, mysticism, and woo woo is over.

It’s just going to take a generation for the nonsense-speakers to die off and the current state of understanding to reproduce in the population.

Cheers
Curt Doolittle

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