Mystery Is the Universe a simulation?

[exe ex machina]

I'm not too sure what the phenomenon/theory is referred to as, but it has something to do with coincidences and situations happening when you'd least want them to. Very similar to the simulation theory.

One example is when you're in a hurry to get somewhere and without fail a stretch of road that is usually a breeze to drive on without much traffic suddenly has a heap of traffic, or has road works going on.

Again, not sure what it is called. Someone referred to it on here a while ago, and I have noticed a common one occurring in my everyday life.

My street is more often than not dead quiet when I go out and check the mail, or put out the bins etc during the day and night, yet when I get home from work and park out the front of my place there is at least 1-2 cars without fail that drive past as I am about to get out of my car. Annoys the hell out of me as this happens all the time regardless of the time of day/night. Every time the engine is switched off and am literally about to get out of my car, a car drives past prompting me to wait until they go past.

Has anyone else encountered anything similar?

Yeah this is very common. It's called the Law of Opposites. That whatever you wish for the opposite occurs.

The Law of Opposites
According to Walsch, this principle states that as soon as you ask for something to become part of your reality, its exact opposite appears. And the thing you don't want always shows up before you manifest what you want.

Happens to me all the time....

Open stretch of road, you really need to get somewhere quick, suddenly all the lights turn red on you, traffic comes out of nowhere, you get cars blocking both lanes so you cant zigzig around them....then....even same road/trip....say you drop your lit cigarette in the car and need to stop to fetch it suddenly the road opens up, no red lights etc

Or.....
You really want this new gal/guy you just met and not another gal/guy you just met, suddenly the one you want avoids you at all cost, and the one you want to avoid wants you and is everywhere.

Also happend to me in job interviews, etc etc.

 

[exe ex machina]

 

[ferball]

Yeah this is very common. It's called the Law of Opposites. That whatever you wish for the opposite occurs.

The Law of Opposites
According to Walsch, this principle states that as soon as you ask for something to become part of your reality, its exact opposite appears. And the thing you don't want always shows up before you manifest what you want.

Happens to me all the time....

Open stretch of road, you really need to get somewhere quick, suddenly all the lights turn red on you, traffic comes out of nowhere, you get cars blocking both lanes so you cant zigzig around them....then....even same road/trip....say you drop your lit cigarette in the car and need to stop to fetch it suddenly the road opens up, no red lights etc

Or.....
You really want this new gal/guy you just met and not another gal/guy you just met, suddenly the one you want avoids you at all cost, and the one you want to avoid wants you and is everywhere.

Also happend to me in job interviews, etc etc.

Have you ever consoidered that you are expecting things to **** up so they do? iE the universe is manifesting stuff from your unconscious, in this case the expectation that whatever it is you want you'll get the opposite?

 

[ferball]

Also this idea literally states the universe is a simulation, well at least the one you experience is - its just a simulation inside your head.

I think Buddhism says something similar.

https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/interface.pdf

 

[evolved2]

If Richmond ever win another premiership that would tell us we are in simulation mode for sure.

Simulation confirmed multiple times. This thread is an interesting read from 12/23.

 

[Back2backJack]

The Copenhagen solution (yeah that damn cat) to quantum mechanics ie: everything is a wave of possibilities til you measure (look at) and it collapses into a particle (into reality) reads like a simulation.

Game programmers use the same method of energy conservation by only rendering the scene you are looking at, they don't waste energy rendering the entire game/map if you aren't looking at those bits.

There's a few other things like the speed of light that come off as artificial and specifically designed to stop you from finding out if you're in a sim, and the Planck level begins to look suspiciously like pixels.

 

[ferball]

 

[ellesbells]

Pixels particles, tomato tomatoe.

 

[ash_1050]

Hasn't been touched on for some time in this thread so will do so again.

The simulation hypothesis, aka Bostrom' trilemma, is as follows:

1. "The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or
2. "The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero", or
3. "The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one."

Essentially he's saying either we never reach a stage where we're 'post human', we reach the stage but we opt not to run simulations, or we're all but guaranteed to be living in a simulation.

William Poundstone talks about this in his book 'The Doomsday Calculation', noting that should humans get to a point where simulations are possible it's highly likely that millions (or more) simulations are being run for as simple a reason as a primary school science experience. Wild to think about.

 

[exe ex machina]

The Discovery – Unidentified Phenomena

Many individuals, including myself, report receiving "downloads" of information during encounters with Beings that happen to travel by UFO —mental imagery like

unidentifiedphenomena.com

 

[JHF1870]

Whenever I take a step back and observe a busy environment, It amazes me how coordinated everything is, and how everything fits into place. Then I think about when I withdraw myself from the chaos, I realize nothing changes, I'm not missed, the system keeps on rolling.

Think about a social media post. It gets about 15 minutes of attention and then to 99% of people it's forgotten. Think about when you're a part of something and then you leave, the system keeps rolling and you're long forgotten.

It messes with your head when you go down the rabbit hole.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

All of reality as we know it is a simulation. I believe this 100%

 

[CD Xbow]

The boffins have spoken, the universe is not a simulation. Sadly it means Donald Trump is real,

Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation

There's a critical feature making it impossible.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Piggy Smalls]

The boffins have spoken, the universe is not a simulation. Sadly it means Donald Trump is real,

Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation

There's a critical feature making it impossible.

www.yahoo.com

They're wrong. The double slit experiment is more compelling than a bunch of scientists deciding it's too hard to find a uniform theory of everything.

 

[JackOutback]

They're wrong. The double slit experiment is more compelling than a bunch of scientists deciding it's too hard to find a uniform theory of everything.

I doubt they just decided it’s too hard. That article is written for us laymen so it only touches the surface, but even then, it does explain how they used theories of incompleteness and indefinability to come to their conclusion. Fellow scientists will have a crack at pulling it down.

How does the double slit experiment contradict their claim that general relativity and quantum mechanics can’t combine algorithmically?

 

[Piggy Smalls]

I doubt they just decided it’s too hard. That article is written for us laymen so it only touches the surface, but even then, it does explain how they used theories of incompleteness and indefinability to come to their conclusion. Fellow scientists will have a crack at pulling it down.

How does the double slit experiment contradict their claim that general relativity and quantum mechanics can’t combine algorithmically?

Im not a physicist but from a philosophical perspective, I believe reality is a construct of the observer's mind, like they are dialled in to influence one another, creating a reality unique to each individual. The double slit experiment proves that reality buffers as soon as someone is observing it. How can a naturally occurring reality cease to exist unless being observed?

 

[CD Xbow]

Im not a physicist but from a philosophical perspective, I believe reality is a construct of the observer's mind, like they are dialled in to influence one another, creating a reality unique to each individual. The double slit experiment proves that reality buffers as soon as someone is observing it. How can a naturally occurring reality cease to exist unless being observed?

So no external reality exists? What ever the 'stuff' is outside your head is just a construct of your mind, with no independent existence beyond that?

 

[Piggy Smalls]

So no external reality exists? What ever the 'stuff' is outside your head is just a construct of your mind, with no independent existence beyond that?

I believe it exists as pure energy, waiting to be interacted with. We will both agree that up is up, touch is touch, smell is smell, green is green, etc. But how we experience those things is unique to each individual's brain and how they construct reality for the individual experiencing it. To me, this sounds more like a simulation than any other explanation.

 

[ferball]

The boffins have spoken, the universe is not a simulation. Sadly it means Donald Trump is real,

Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation

There's a critical feature making it impossible.

www.yahoo.com

This should be obvious really.

Simulation theory was killed by Godel nearly 100 years ago.

So no external reality exists? What ever the 'stuff' is outside your head is just a construct of your mind, with no independent existence beyond that?

Of course it exists, but your relation to it is pretty sketchy.

IMO Dark matter is the real give away. We know it exists thru inference but we are unable to detect it and it doesn't seem like we have any pathway to be able to detect it. We don't even know what it is really, or even if it exists, just that something unobservable behaves in a way that has changed our observations of what we can observe.

 

[ferball]

I believe it exists as pure energy, waiting to be interacted with. We will both agree that up is up, touch is touch, smell is smell, green is green, etc. But how we experience those things is unique to each individual's brain and how they construct reality for the individual experiencing it. To me, this sounds more like a simulation than any other explanation.

This is kind of "true" but the simulation you're talking about exists in your head, not in the actual universe.

Its one thing to say the universe is unknowable on its own terms and you only approximate knowing it thru the models you create in your own head but once you get to that point then "therefore its all a simulation" is not a logical next step.