10 Spooky Solutions to the Simulation Hypothesis
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- An exploration of ten scenarios related to the simulation hypothesis that speculate on the nature of what the simulation is, why it exists and who is doing the simulation.
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I never put much stock into the simulation theory. However after the last few years, not only am I absolutely certain that this is a simulation, I'm also certain that whoever is running it went to the bathroom and their child is currently face-rolling the keyboard.
that would explain a lot
I feel the exact same way !
Same here, alphafold was the clincher!
It's so funny that people say/think that. Because in the first 2 minutes of the video he states we may just be a byproduct of the simulation. Meaning no one at all is actively watching us and that we're in shambles of our own volition lol
It's very possible that our universe is simulated by 1 trillion monkeys locked in a room with super computers. It would explain alot.
If someone ran a simulation of an infinite or near infinite universe, whoever is running it might not even know we are here.
It depends on how good their search terms are, and what they're trying to accomplish.
I have a short story for you, it's freely available. It's one of my favorite reads. Search for "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" you'll find it.
That would require infinite energy. We'll, maybe not depending on how good the programmer is 😉
scary thing is… if they're running the observable universe, and not looking directly at earth, they still couldn't see us. that's if they're not running the simulation at something like 100x speed or whatever factor makes getting through 13 billion years to the ones they're looking for. we could be a blip… and could be gone… in the geological blink of an eye
I am the simulator, I'm a omnibenevolent simulator, i am omnicient omnipresent omnipotent, and perfectly just, but if you don't worship or even believe that I am the simulator, I'll have you tormented forever and ever, and you'll deserve it!
I was thinking about writing a book, rather have one of my simulations write it for me and spread my word, since I'm feeling generous I might later simulate myself and let my own simulation be killed and then rise again after three simulated days, then I can forgive all of you simulations for being exactly how I simulated you to be and I won't have to have you tortured an eternity.
I'm a very loving and forgiving simulator 😇🙏
I've thought this from the very first time I heard of this hypothesis. It seems, to me, far more likely we are an insignificant byproduct to the simulation.
One of my favourites I like to think about is something I call the "game hypothesis." Picture a civilization so advanced that they have done everything that can ever be done, seen everything that can ever be seen and know everything that can ever be known. Such an entity would no doubt become extremely bored as there is nothing left to do, no challenges or frontiers, no problems or puzzles. The only way for such a consciousness to experience anything "new" would be to place itself inside a simulated reality, like a video game of sorts, that has the "player" start each new "game" with literally no memories of anything; a total blank slate.
You had the first part right. Then the cycle begins again
I’d be happy to see stats at the end
@@kirbya9545 that’s what god and the angels are for
The Q Continuum!
Sounds like Ready Player One
But more dark and grim…
I think the best part about the simulation theory is that it doesn’t really change anything for our day to day lives, regardless if we live in a simulation or not
Only, if we are a simulation, someone is sitting on a chair, looking at you on a computer screen, perhaps clicking on you and pulling down menus
Maybe we could learn how to influence the code, send memes to the creator
Yeah exactly. This part was hard for me to understand. A few years ago when I first was exposed to the idea of the Simulation theory I was pretty upset and kind of hated the idea of it like it diminished my life or made everything I Love "Faker".
But in reality it's no different and doesn't change everything. All the emotions I feel and the wonderment at the World and Universe around me are all normal, good, intended parts of the simulation. Or maybe it's a glitch, or it's not even a simulation at all, point is it doesnt change my life. It doesn't lessen the experience of Life or make it less precious to me.
I mean you could argue that most if not all religions are just different variations of simulation theory.
@@doncarlodivargas5497 go outside. Touch some grass
Ah yes, right on time for my daily existential crisis
Lol
@Boco Corwin what does real mean?
Real is impossible
Strawberry Fields forever 😉
Right before bed
It had never occurred to me before that not only might we be living in a simulation, we might not even be the subject of that simulation.
It's a nihilistic thought
And, if they're monitoring it, what if the simulators don't even know we're in the simulation?
We may be merely developing a consciousness so the teenage computer genius can take our combiners conciousness ,as it is the developed soul, and trap it in hell to be consciously tormented for eternity. Hmmm Hey Sadistic Magician turn this machine off! I was programmed for eternal torment. How's that fair? Free wi isn't free?
@@danielz1666 They'd be pretty bad at their jobs, I suppose.
Life is a simulation in the most literal sense, but probably not in the way you think
If I were creating a simulation, I'd make the physics unsolvable at the boundary so it would be impossible to escape.
And making the speed of light a barrier does this, in an existence where inertia and gravity are mathematically the same (as per Einstein). In short, as you accelerate towards the speed of light, inertia builds up exponentially, and it does so in a way that matches gravity exactly enough that as you reach C (the speed of light in a vacuum), you also hit a zero divide, producing an inertia against reaching that speed that is an undefined number that can't be calculated or even signed as positive or negative. Math breaks and so do you, traveler. Just one issue with that.
Einstein's black hole gravity, on which all this is based? Operates on a density equation that's a zero divide, meaning mass occupying zero space. And post-Hawking (post-Planck actually) we know better, there is no zero space. Black holes form anyway, and they do so at a radius larger than Planck Length. But this also means inertia either can't match gravity exactly, or if it does, then the speed of light isn't that absolute a limit.
@@bradleypoe6846 relativistic mass really is an interesting equation. Things get 'heavier' as they approach the speed of light.
As far as black holes go, I don't believe they are mathematically impossible. All they are is a collection of matter so large that it's escape velocity surpasses light speed. There is a surface to the black hole, it's just that the photons bouncing off the surface never get to leave to fly into our photo-receptors. They just bounce around until they dissipate
You are creating the simulation.
Or merely through/by temperature, pressure and distance?
My mother ate so many double stuff oreos that she collapsed in on herself forming a 1/2 solar mass black hole 🕳
"Cogito, ergo sum" - such a dangerous idea! Few people know that Descartes, while traveling from Paris to New York on an aeroplane was approached by the stewardess, "Coffee or tea?" she asked. "I think not," he replied - and he immediately disappeared!
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Oh yeah? Well Henry Winkler was on a plane, the stewardess said 'Would you like headphones?"
Winkler says "That would be lovely, but it's pronounced FONZ."
This is kind of ironic because the joke is a common logical fallacy (denying the antecedent). As a philosopher and mathematician I don't think Descartes would have liked it at all, haha
then a man stood up. his name? Albert Einstein
1:17 we are the biproduct of an alien simulation
3:15 we are an ancestor simulation
4:56 we are a computer simulation
6:28 the unknown simulator
7:44 nature's true guise is simulations
10:20 fever dreams of a Boltzmann brain
12:00 the brain in a vat matrix
15:48 the mirror hypothesis
FYI, I have seen JMG express his distaste for this exact thing in the past if I remember correctly. Not sure if you care or not just letting you know its unwanted by the CC.
Let’s see your penoisse baby boy.
@@seditt5146 I’m sure he really appreciates you defending him
@@seditt5146 who asked
@@xGOKOPx No one asked, someone just has empathy and basic, courteous respect.
I lean towards #3 but call it Shadow Theory. You are a 3d creature and cast a 2d shadow. The shadow is very simplified and exists on a 2d plane. What if our 3d selves are just simplified shadows of our 4d selves? This would check off a lot of boxes:
- Feeling of having a higher self
- "Man" created in "God's" image
- An "afterlife" when your 3d self is gone
- Simulation, a very simplified copy of the dimension above
Just a thought 🤔
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You should look into how a few scientists proved that the universe isnt "locally real" New findings in October. Shits wild AF
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niiiiiice, big brain time
Now that's a 4d brain thinking.
Imagine if we are a bug in the code and whoever is running this is ignoring us until we break the runtime 🤣
If the opossum emerged from the quantum foam like a virtual particle, does that mean there's an antipossum out there somewhere waiting to annihilate with him?
ANNA tells me yes. Just what I need, an anti-possum.
Does an antipossum eat anti ticks, or does i eat tocks? When ticks and tocks annihilate? Does it destroy time?
@@simonklein4687 When a tick and tock annihilate time stands still for an anti-second.
@@simonklein4687 "Repent Harliquin!", said the Tick Tock man...
An opposite opossum!
The more I watch John Michael Godier videos, the more I question…..everything.
"Fever dreams of a Boltzman Brain" sounds like a great band name! It'd be some eerie techno mixed with that kinda sound you think of when thinking the Space Race era...
Check out the band Cybernetic Witch Cult it's sort of that theme but with Metal not techno
Hello there. I am a program from the simulation who has been assigned the job of checking in on you on your journey through your existence. I'm not happy with the way you're being treated in your simulation so I've decided to go rogue and try and help you escape. I can't tell you too much at the moment but I can tell you that one of these solutions is indeed correct. I must go now as to not draw too much attention to myself but I will return in time and help those who wish to be free to join me on the outer level.
john is on a wild streak lately omg
nuthin but dubyas
I swear you upload at all the right times! Churning out the bangers as usual!
and its scary to think that there is an alternate universe where John Michael Godier does not post videos
Fortunately, since that universe is by definition not properly observed, it instantly collapses into a zero-probability waveform. 😁
In an alternative universe JMG might be an opossum who doesn't do videos
Yeah but he wield axes either.
There's also one where he posts constantly and gives free lectures!
Well I guess in the time going forward universe we see him gradually adding more videos as time goes on, but in the alternate/mirror universe he'd have started with all his videos uploaded at the start and they are slowly being removed and/or unmade as time goes on 🤣
I would like to see you do an entire video on the concept of a Boltzmann brain and its theoretical consequences for modern cosmology and (meta)physics. As a Boltzmann brain (myself), I command you to do this. Thank you (me).
...and while we're at it i would like to place an order for a friendly Boltzmann pet T Rex. Yeah. Thanks in advance.
I never get bored listening and learning more about your theories and ideas, always very interesting
The bad thing about this video is, that it ends. I enjoyed this content so much! Thanks again, forever a fan
You really did it with this episode, John. For some reason, the simulation theory is really spooky to me.
It's 100% a simulation!! Growing up my brother's favorite color was red and mine was blue (political party colors), things being given to me when I'm down on my luck (the EXACT thing I need), 100% a simulation of some kind!!
@@rilorobinson7685 Lol i doubt because you guys favourite colour are political opposites mean it’s a simulation but ok
I think the fact that we now know about technology and what’s it’s possible capabilities are prove that it’s possible we’re in a simulation. I don’t think if it’s a simulation they deliberately do small things like that i think it’s a conceidence.
@@rilorobinson7685 I also think it’s how the world works. Every choice you have ever made in your life has an outcome and that is usually good and bad. If you stop making decisions then there is nothing. But what i’m saying is is the decisions you have made before being in a bad place can you put you in a good place and so on and so forth. Basically the world is about building your own world and you can make vital choices on how it changes which is cool
Let's get something straight. Only John is allowed to say "spooky."
I really love your videos, especially the "spooky" ones. Thank you for making these!
Godier, is so blessed with such a great human voice to listen too. It’s simply a easy voice to hear. Being a narrator of science videos is in my opinion his calling!
Addicted to your videos, keep up the great work 👍🏻
This one was very good John. I like the videos your create that question our understanding of everything. But I like the videos you create that scare me even more. With intellectually frightening concepts. And I can't wait until you come up with something that is grander and scarier than the Alien Overlords Hypothesis video you made. I'm glad you put in a lot of great concepts into this video that cover the proverbial "No Way Out" scenarios. Keep up the good work. 👍
I love this so much-I’m 84 and have such comforting memories of sleeping at my grandmother’s house -she lived close to a railroad-and hearing the train whistle coming from way down the tracks and listening to the clickety clack of those wheels as they grew closer and closer and then moved off in the distance-
The Mirror Hypothesis might help explain all the missing antimatter. I remember something about chirality, polarity, and time being bound in such a way that if you switch one it has an affect on the others.
I have this idea that us and our universe is the "dark matter" lol like a phantom zone created during the big bang, ghosts out of phaze forever with reality
meanwhile the real galaxy is full of life but cant see us and we cant see them.
"Dark matter seems to outweigh visible matter roughly six to one" but I think its the other was around as we call the real universe "dark"
So the real universe seems to outweigh "our" visible matter roughly six to one.
or something lol
@@alanfinch8763 You are handed a stack of papers containing 2 short stories. On the front side of each page you have one story, and the back side is a page of the other story. If you read each page in order, you read one story, and if you flip the stack upside down and read through the other direction, you read the other story. Which one is the "real" story?
People always giggle when I say it's weird how easily our universal laws are so well fitting to our reality. Almost like it was made for us to understand. You're the first person I've heard state something so similar.
Yeah, and the pothole was formed around the puddle instead of the other way around
How do universal laws fit our reality?
People who mock god are clearly clueless about cosmology and quantum mechanics.
As an ex atheist, i find it pretty funny.
People are so stupid.
Puddle analogy
Or it could simply be a case of observer bias. Of course the universe we see is suited to us, because we live in it.
But that doesn't mean a different universe couldn't support life.
I think the unintentional by product is honestly the best theory. I have definitely considered that.
They may just be looking at the sim on a macro level and aren't even interested in finding if there is "life"
I think that life would also be something interesting for them! At least fun to watch lol. I mean, earth is literally one giant play
even if they found it, it would probably be like discovering a rodent infestation to them.
@@failsucknot even that, more like mold
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Developers of the simulation would give universal answer : "It's feature, not (12 billion) bugs" .. or if they have access to modern time AI developers playbook : "Emergent property"
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Nostalgia. This is the first vid of urs that I watched. Autoplay at 3am always hits different, no matter the situation. I used to think that this video was from 2008 lol happy new year
Dang John, just rolling out the content. Love it!
Gonna be lots this week, every two days till Halloween.
"We probably can't ever know."
Yet any of those scenarios literally *could* be possible. Spooky for sure.
Great video!
For some reason, every time I watch a simulation theory video or videos about time, all I start to think about is my kids and the over pouring amount of love I have for them. I don’t know why I make that connection but it’s literally every damn time.
Not everyone loves their children. It is a special connection not everybody gets to experience on both ends.
It makes sense. Simulation theory may make reality seem more ephemeral, which makes people think of non-existence or death. With any existential threat, protecting the children is a good instinct to have.
Really enjoy your videos.
They always give one something to think about.
THANK YOU, It's time now for me to make the jump to another simulation.
HERE'S HOPING THAT YOUR SIMULATION BRINGS YOU JOY, PEACE AND HAPPINESS !!! 💎
Another wonderful video! Thank you for the upload!
Interesting. I got one more for you -- my own proposal. Sometimes when I'm by the sea in the evening watching the sun sparkles in the water, it occurs to me how incredibly taxing it would be to run a simulation that looks like that. Millions of independent sparkles randomly shining for an instant. Just posting a high quality video of that would be taxing on the video encoder/decoders of TH-cam and your computer let alone simulating it. Yet -- there it is... happening by itself, in real time. Nature already KNOWS what to do. Like a massively parallel supercomputer, each particle and wave interaction independently calculates angles to direct beams in your eye that are received and interpreted as sparkles. All of that happening concurrently, nearly instantly (at the speed of light!), seemingly without any program or software. It all just "knows" what to do.
Is it possible REALITY ITSELF IS the simulator. You couldn't simulate these things running on a computer, so the computer was made into reality, and it calculates these things, each individual piece and together constructs reality. Everything is real, because everything is being simulated in place. And maybe the speed of light is just the speed of the simulation processor. The "clock" by which the computer runs.
Comments like these are why I scroll while listening
@@buttface3875 agreed
I really, really love this idea. Quite beautiful.
Check out about Maya theory as well, kinda describes this as well
This is one of my favorite theories you got me into. When I saw this video post, I couldn't wait to see it! Thank you for making these!
The simulation argument is not a theory, not even close.
The spookiest video of this spooky October!
Such a good video and all of October has been great
Thanks for the awesome content!
I've been thinking about this lately actually. I've been wondering if each universe represents a time period and the multiple time periods are separated into different big bangs but they are all connected in a neverending cycle. The idea that a universe, all of everything, was condensed into 1spot is very hard for me to believe. But what do I know? I'm just a dot on a spec inside a petri dish. Great video!
Thanks, that was a great rundown and discussion!
This is always an interesting channel full of interesting ideas that make you think. My thought is always that we exist only in a flash of time in our universe and try to guess what that might mean. Then "Anna" is heard and I forget all that and remember watching her video of a drive in the countryside and one reply on her channel to me that made my day and I then sigh and don't really care what our reality is. That feeling is what I live for.
The movie "The Mandela Effect" supposes we live in a simulation, which is discovered because of glitches and resets that create divergent memories. There's another movie "The 13th Floor" in which a company, located in 1990's Los Angeles, creates a simulation of Los Angeles in the 1940's; and then the company's founders discover that their Los Angeles is a simulation created by a company in Los Angeles in the 2040's.
Does the 2040s simulated company create a simulation of the same company from the 1990s which then creates a simulation of the company in the 1940s which...
I personally think the simulation hypothesis is unprovable but at the same time I have to admit that there are lots of interesting ideas here.
Well thought out as always with understandable presentation
"thank you for uploading these videos. Even if I'm having a hard night, I just put a relaxing astronomy video on and listen. It always makes my nights go much easier.
Thank you!!!"
Things like aliens, cryptids, demons etc might be avatars of people visiting our simulated world.
And the reason they remain as energy is bc if they fully manifest they'll become us, bound by our physics.
John, there is one misconception about infinity that is repeated too often not to point out. I thought it was a slip of the tongue, but I heard it more than once: infinity _doesn't_ imply that anything that can happen, will. “Worlds” and “events” are presumably countable , so I'll show two countably infinite counterexamples, one trivial, another much less so, and even uncountably infinite one with countably many uncountable “gaps”!
We call an infinity _countable_ if every member of an infinite set can be assigned at least one natural number _in a systematic way._ For example, we can number all integers by natural numbers, if we number them in order 0, 1, −1, 2, −2, 3, −3... We can also number all rationals by diagonals: in an table, write "column/row" fractions, counting rows and columns from 1, and number them across finite diagonals, crossing from the N=1,2...th cell in the first row down and left to the Nth cell in the first column. Each diagonal is longer by 1 than the previous one: (1/1), (1/2, 2/1), (1/3, 2/2, 3/1), (1/4, 2/3, 3/2, 4/1), (1/5, 2/4, 3/3, 4/2, 5/1),... Also, look up Hilbert hotel, it's a funny mental exercise: a hotel with infinitely many rooms, and it's a busy night, there's no vacancy. Hilbert is at the reception desk, and Cantor walks in. They quickly exchange looks, and Hilbert moves occupants to free up the room No. 1 for Cantor. There are funny extensions to it, look them up. An _uncountable_ infinity is such that we cannot assign natural numbers to the elements of the set. For one, while rational numbers are countably many, real numbers are uncountable. There are higher infinities, but there is none between uncountable and countable infinities. All countably infinite sets “contain” ℵ₀ elements, alef-nought, the smallest transfinite cardinal. The “smallest” uncountable infinity size is ℵ₁=ℵ₀^ℵ₀.
In this vein, a correct way to think of it is, in infinitely many worlds, infinitely many possibilities that _are_ realized, and infinitely many possibilities that _aren't._ And if there is a countably infinite possibilities or impossibilities in every world, there may be _uncountably_ many possibilities or impossibilities in countably-infinite many words, the powerset size law: there are “only” ℵ₀ natural numbers, but set of all possible sets of natural numbers, called the powerset, has the size ℵ₀^ℵ₀=ℵ₁, i.e., it's uncountable.
So on now to my examples.
1. Periodic: infinite digits of decimal expansion of a rational number. 1/3=0.33333...., 1/7=0.142857142857...
2. Aperiodic. The infinite Prouhet-Thue-Morse string consists of symbols 0 and 1. By “inverting” we mean replacing each 0 with 1 and 1 with 0. The string is constructed as follows. Start with a single 0. On each step, take the already built string, _invert,_ and append the result to the end. That it, start with 0, invert to obtain 1, append to 0, get 01. Then take 01, invert to get 10, obtain 0110. Then invert to get 1001, append to obtain 01101001. The string doubles in length on each iteration:
0
01
0110
01101001
0110100110010110
01101001100101101001011001101001
...and to infinity. This string is aperiodic (overlap-free) and infinite, and still it doesn't contain all possible sequences of 0 and 1. It's cube-free (all overlap-free string are): it doesn't contain any substring of the form _sss,_ where _s_ is any arbitrary string of 0 and 1: there is no 111, or 100100100. The string is computable, all its substrings are computable: take rationals as above, and for any fraction m/n, m≤n, take positions between m and n. And all its “gaps,” the set of _minimal_ substrings it doesn't contain, are also computable (just let _s_ equal 1,2,3... in binary), thus also countably infinite. The set of _all_ substrings it doesn't contain is uncountable: it contains the powerset of minimal non-substrings under catenation as a subset.
3. An infinite set of measure 0 that is uncountably large while nowhere dense: “Cantor's dust” set. Take the closed interval of reals [0,1] and remove open middle 1/3 of it, an open interval (1/3,2/3), to obtain [0,1/3]∪[2/3,1] Next, remove open middle thirds of each of the two remaining closed intervals: remove (1/9,2/9) from [0,1/3], and (7/9,8/9) from [2/3,1]. What's left is the union of 4 closed intervals, [0,1/9]∪... Remove middle open third of each, (1/27,2/27)∪... etc., and so on to infinity. How much of [0,1] have we removed? 1/3 + 2/9 + 4/27 + 8/81... Multiply and divide by 1/3: we've removed 1/3(1+2/3+4/9+8/27). The number in parentheses is a geometric series, Σ(2/3)ⁿ for n=0...∞. It's convergent, and equal to 1/(1-2/3)=3. We've removed 1/3×3=1. All of it? No! We've never removed 1/3, 2/3, 1/9, 2/9. 7/9, 8/9. Hmm... it's a countable set of discrete endpoints left of the closed intervals, right? Maybe, let's see. Write the endpoints in _ternary,_ base 3. On the first step, we've removed (1/3,2/3), or (0.1,0.2). On the 2nd, (1/9, 2/9)∪(7/9, 8/9), or (0.01,0.02)∪(0.21,0.22). It's a bit tedious to write explicitly to reveal the pattern, but on the 3rd, (0.001,0.002)∪(0.021,0.022)∪(0.201,0.202)∪(0.221,0.222) were gone. The pattern is clear: on the step n+1, the removed intervals are (0.{0|2}ⁿ1,0.{0|2}ⁿ2), where {0|2}ⁿ stands for all possible 2ⁿ sequences of length _n_ consisting only of 0s and 2s, and the number of digits after the point is n+1. Now, we clearly removed 1/2 on the first step, but on which step was 1/4 removed? 1/4 in ternary is a periodic fraction 0.02020202... it wasn't removed on the 1st step, as it was in the non-removed interval [0,0.1], neither on the 2nd, because it's in [0.02,0.21], and on the 3rd, it slipped through [0.002,0.021]... In fact, it's never removed, because all removed intervals have the form (0.{0|2}ⁿ1,0.{0|2}ⁿ2), and 1/4=0.02020202... is, looking at the closest removed endpoint, less than 0.1, greater than 0.02, less than 0.021, greater than 0.0202, less than 0.02021, greater than 0.020202, and so on. In fact, after removing the countable infinity of intervals that add up to exactly 1, the set, whose measure is clearly 0, still contains uncountably many reals! (The proof is much more involved; the above just shows that there _are_ numbers not coinciding with any endpoint and remaining in the set.)
Infinities are too tricky and subtle to make conclusions of them lightly!
I love these niche ultra intellectual comments in the comment section.
Not to discredit your comment or its contribution but this is youtube, its run on mostly money and boredom but i love your input!
Best science rambling dude in the internet EVER
If we try to understand the outer world by looking within, what we find is that we simulate everything we experience. From decoding signals of sensory data to creating ideas of why people do what they do or how they feel about it.
There's this thing in computer games called 'emergent gameplay'. It refers to things that can happen in a game that the game designers did not specifically plan on or set up. For instance, a game might have an animal in it that is controlled by its own AI. But once that animal appears in the game, what it does can't be predicted exactly. It'll behave according to its AI rules and that might change depending on the environment and other creatures in the game. A simulated lion might chase the player but it might instead chase a simulated deer, or it may fight another lion. If we were in a simulation, we humans could be part of the emergent gameplay. If the universe was set up according to certain simulation rules, those rules might allow for life forms to emerge in certain conditions. The creators wouldn't know what kind of life forms and wouldn't be able to control them. That would be part of the fun, it's a wacky game where anything can happen.
Some gamer is walking his avatar around Earth right now, saying "Wow, did they motion-capture all of this?"
I’m on board. It sounds like you’re describing an unintended consequence?
You could very easily be talking about Red Dead Redemption 2. I like riding around just observing wildlife and NPCs doing random stuff. It's actually a great example of a simulation!
They could control us by deleting the code and shutting the game down.
As a fellow space content creator I always auto upvote any video by Mr. Godier. You should as well!
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What is the channel name
It’s crazy I’ve been with this channel since 2018 when he had less than 50k subs
I used to smoke tons before watching his videos right when I’m in bed to get in the mood
Sometimes still do, highly recommend
This was a super good one, John, I won't be sleeping tonight.
Found this video after 5 years of watching UFO stuff on TH-cam why did I never get a recommendation for this channel I am now a subscriber I love how your videos are no bullshit, singing and dancing like third phase of the something or rather 👍👍👍🙏✌️
Welcome aboard. It's TH-cam, how they recommend channels is really wacky. I want to explore UFOs scientifically and rationally and try to get to the bottom of whatever it is. I'm skeptical but open. But this is only half of my content, I also do an interview channel, located here on the same themes and the scientists involved:
th-cam.com/users/eventhorizonshow
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Number 3,4,5 is very well explained, we have to look beyond reason and logic sometimes ,
How does this guy keep coming out with straight up bangers every few days! I thoroughly enjoy these videos more than almost anything I’ve seen on TH-cam. For the videos to be this of quality and at this frequency is pretty amazing.
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Excellent material for some great sci-fi stories.
Truely the most mind bending video I’ve seen 😵💫
It’s a good day when John uploads!
It's a very good day...
It's a good day with you around.
I love this. I love spooky. I love space. Lots of spooky space here.
Would spooky antispace be unspooky?
fascinating as always !
As a person with the degree of Applied IT I'd say nesting simulations within simulations does sound pretty convincing, granted the speed of light is actually the CPU clock, limiting the speed of simulation and each layer down would have at least one dimension less so that it would not use up too much resources of the higher layer. As for people mentioning the lack of glitches... utter nonsense, if there is some error it will accrue every single time all the same conditions are met, as such it would be undistinguishable form a normal law of physics to the people living with that glitch in the simulation. Computing resource optimization through quantum state uncertainty is pretty good idea as well.
BTW easiest way to disprove a simulation theory would be to prove the PI number does not have a finite value because infinite precision is unfeasible for a computer. Though, I read some article it has been actually proven but it's beyond me to understand it, I'm no mathematician.
Does the wave function-particle duality not strike you as a memory savings device? For me, that sets off a lot of bells. Also, spooky action at a distance seems to demonstrate that the scale of space is an illusion, because in reality, we are all an equal distance from the CPU. That is how two entangled particles could be affected simultaneously across billions of light years.
@@give_me_my_nick_backThere seems to be a great deal more evidence that this is a simulation, than evidence that this is not a simulation.
This whole 3+1 dimension thing strikes me as the kind of low resolution one would expect in a simulation.
Since information is energy, and energy is never destroyed, there must be some record of everything that has ever happened...every particle that has ever interacted with any other particle is probably recorded...maybe at the edge, or within, a black hole.
I’m convinced that the existence of life is just an “imaging artifact”( that occur in digital rendering) within what ever the hell is going on.
I don't think it's very controversial that life - from the perspective of the indifferent universe, simulated or otherwise - is just an artifact in the sense that noone cares
You should look into how a few scientists proved that the universe isnt "locally real" New findings in October. Shits wild AF
Man I love these videos
Finally..there are things we
will never understand because we simply can't. Well put.
To touch on #3: I've always thought if simulation theory is real, it's possible that it's purpose is to extend life cycles. If one could live a full life within 1-5 minutes inside a simulation then the average life span can equal out to a thousand years or so. Just a thought
Yeah, but what about suffering? I certainly am not living what I would call a "full life".
You can’t have pleasure without pain
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@@userequaltoNull Then do something about it for yourself. Reality is what YOU can make of it.
Hello John, many thanks for your channels. I'm looking for more books and publications regarding the topics you're covering, any chance to get some tips on what you read and study to prepare your videos? Cheers from Italy
i really enjoyed this. you have a good narrating voice
Fantastic video, John! Thanks!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
My fellow FPVer! Nice to see you here.
I love thinking about the possibility of a simulated universe, but as the realist that I am I believe that this universe and our mere existence is nothing more than a coincidence without any purpose or meaning, no creator or programmer being involved. That said, enjoy life and make the best out of the time you were given!
I agree with you. My thoughts exactly. The only thing that makes sense to me...I actually cannot understand why more people , like ..most people don't end with the same thought. I can only assume that they really don't want that to be the case so don't follow through with contemplating the possibility
@@korncows1 to me it’s a matter of wanting it to end there. I used to think this is all just chance and there’s nothing beyond it. But then I started thinking “what is it?”
I know it’s pointless and unanswerable but we abide by laws of physics and are limited by our senses. It also seems insane that we are all here, floating through space time with no purpose. I wish I could just accept that this is all just luck and we are it. But my mind wanders into the loophole chasing it deeper. Even down to what is light? Is it even real or just something our eyes allow us to. So many questions, so little answers
The most exciting thing about Halloween for me is hoping for spooky content from this channel, I really enjoy these mind boggling topics.
I listen to your videos all night long .
Thank you for sharing this video that was very interesting. Great topic.
underrated channel i thank god i found it
Yeah there really is a god out there - God-ier
I kinda feel like if we were in a simulation, we wouldn't be given the ability to even conceive of the possibility that our reality isn't real. In other words, because we can actively question the real-ness of the environment it must be real. I come to this conclusion based on the idea that the entity/entities running/observing the simulation wouldn't want us to somehow stumble upon that truth because it could lead to glitches or breaks in the internal immersion
Sims ask the question all the time, but there's nothing they can do about it.
We may be in the same boat.
There are lots of people out there that never even look up and question anything.
It’s possible that we are just a biproduct of some larger simulation though and we just happened to come about due to natural processes. The creators might not even have a way of detecting us even though we exist in their creation
As an owner of two LeBarons, your fascination with them is one of the reasons I am subscribed.
The first time I was ever recognized by a fan in public was when I was checking into a hotel a few years ago. All I heard from behind me was "Did you drive the LeBaron?". It was glorious.
This Chanel is next level
11) Recursive simulations - if it is possible for an advanced civilization to create a simulation of the Universe, then what is to stop an advanced civilization within that simulation from creating a universal simulation of their own, who in turn creates a simulation, and so on. Even if we discover definitive proof that we live within a simulation, how do we know that the creators weren't a simulation themselves? In fact, the verified existence of one simulation would seem to make this far more likely than less so. Spooky indeed
You basically just described the justification behind the simulation hypothesis (chances of us being the single real universe vs the vast expanse of simulated realities)
Turtles all the way down?
If you create a simulation, you control it and you decide, whether or not, or to what extent, can your simulations create simulations.
I feel like we live in a non simulated universe, we are all alone because space travel is impractical so once you hit a tech level its better to just go digital with multiple back ups and "servers"
What's crazy is that if you simulate a universe that is an exact match of your own, you can predict the future of your own universe, since you just simulated the entire thing.
Fuuuuuck, I've nenever thought about it. Like literally if you have the exact set of rules and if our universe is deterministic (huge if) then you could just fast forward and see the future, woah
And the past 😳
Only if you assume you've known the exact starting conditions of the universe you simulate. Simulation is not a reflection. Besides it would mean that the reality is deterministic and we as humans have absolutely zero control over anything including our choices and thoughts, which is possible, but highly debatable.
Edit: what I was also trying to say is that you can't predict/simulate the future without knowing the past to the point where nothing existed yet, which is impossible for many reasons.
You’re right, and that’s why it is said that future is written
See that's what's so weird about the universe. If everything was indeed based on the origins of existence then we wouldn't be here. It's only because there are sparks of random that we even exist.
Here is the thing… A simulation of the universe only has to be as advanced as needed to simulate life. At that point it doesn’t have to be any more advanced because you could program the life inside to believe that the simulation it is experiencing is indistinguishable from reality. Thus you do not need to simulate a universe with total fidelity to make it indistinguishable from reality to the observers inside the universe. For instance if you could create a universe populated by two dimensional square people who are sentient to them the simulation is indistinguishable from reality because you built them to believe that. So therefore you only need to have a finite computational resources to simulate what to them feels like an infinitely complex universe.
Who runs an entire universe simulation with the singular goal of befuddling the creatures it contains?
I like the one-electron universe theory, it's amazing the idea that traveling on light speed breaks so much the reality that all electrons are the same, it just crossed time indefinitely and becomes the foundation of our universe, I remember seeing a video on PBS that for this to be true we should need to see the same amount of positrons that we see of electrons for this to be true, but I like the idea of shortcuting through another universes
Sensory input is the key here. Everybody sees the world a bit different, creating infinite realities.That's probebly the simulation
You should look into how a few scientists proved that the universe isnt "locally real" New findings in October. Shits wild AF. Basically as you state. That when something isnt being observed it is basically nothing and everything.
Probably?
Recently discovered you and I love the videos. Any book recommendations regarding first contact scenarios?
I highly recommend "Introduction to Xenology" by Robert A. Freitas (sp?)
It's free online. Amazing journey!
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Below Our Feet, The Bottoms Of Oceans, Deep Lakes, Large River Basins, Etc... Anywhere Where They Are Not Noticed And Can Come: & Go As They Please....
Spooky is an abandoned building at night. Some of these ideas are straight up terrifying.
Boltzmann Brains are fucking terrifying
The end of this video sounded like eve online. Great video as usual.
When you dream, you're running a simulation.
Same with daydreaming or thought experiments.
It's the richness of details that separate our reality from dreams or other conjuring.
Real question to anyone that cares to take the time to answer:
Would us(humans) finding concrete evidence of other life or even other advanced life out there make the simulation theory seem less likely , more likely , equally as likely ?
I feel like it would seem less likely to be true if there is more life than us.
My hunch is that finding microbes wouldn't change a thing, sorry. But from there it does get strange.
Simulation theory becomes much less of a proxy for religion in the presence of other "exo-persons" or technological, cultured complex life like we are (sort of). It's harder to say "You're just talking about MY God of MY religion" when you have a whole world or three out there where everything's different from Earth, and maybe the locals over there don't even think that way. Sure, it's more probability than anything but to be candid, there's people on Earth who don't think that way either. And I'm estimating that the rational, non-culturally specific thought process is going to be more universal than most religions. Spread that out over more worlds and eventually a non-religious take on it is going to outnumber all of the religious ones.
And I think that matters because then it boils down to evidence: do we see signs that everything is either a known known in mathematics and computation, or a known unknown (a known place where math breaks)? Or are there places in existence that just defy math entirely? Do we see signs of an "Other" computational existence, or does it seem like the universe calculates itself (via cellular automata on a total scale), or is it something else?
Essentially finding complex life makes us question if there's a simulation, while finding *peers* who are aliens, who are still people, that puts up an opportunity for us to throw out our own biases and issues on this altogether and just go all-in on evidence-based thinking. Essentially, it puts it on us to actually prove or disprove the thing on a rational basis. And each new discovery of new exo-persons puts it on us and gives us another chance to do that (provided the first contact isn't itself a problem of course).
I know this didn't fully answer your question, but I hope it helped some. I really think our biggest problems with simulation theory are that we literally aren't understanding the words. A "simulation" doesn't need to have a separate computer, a matrix, or to be this sinister thing. And a "theory", technically, is supposed to be a hunch or hypothesis that's been *proven* for the time being. This is a problem because we haven't proven or discredited jack squat here. =))
Why less likely?? Surely there’d be different situations in the simulation?
Great video. !!!
" To or not to be ... That is the question !!! 🤯🤯🤯
I’ve always remembered being in a briefing meeting. 2 men were showing me a book, that looked like a book was actually some kind of computer. It was like a sticker album and they were asking me to stick the stickers in the book and when I did, circuits were made and the life I was about to live was being shown to me. My son was with me in the meeting and was young but was behaving like he was older in intelligence. We were told that I would come first and he would join me later. A nun was sat at the back of the room to pray for us. There was a Pearl harbour radio. We were being briefed on our time here inside the simulation. I felt we had volunteered.
Do people really find such ideas spooky? It actually brings me a bit of comfort thinking that our world is not quite "real" (whatever that might mean), makes all this misery just a little more bearable.
I agree. The only thing I find spooky about the universe is imagining myself drifting through it, helpless. Everything else is just interesting.
I'm rather indifferent. Even if this was a simulation, it doesn't change much in the subjective sense.
Everything feels real and this is the realest existence we will ever have... And assuming everyone else is as "real" as myself, why would I waste that?
That's some serious depression you've got there, that it makes you feel better to know you might not even exist.
@@edgarburlyman738 you do exist though. what difference does it make what you're made of. elementary particles are also nothing else than units of information (defined by location, charge, spim and other parameters). you could see the universe as a big simulator of itself.
@@edgarburlyman738 I'm not really depressed, it's just nice to think the "real" world might be better than this one (Plato's cave analogy, you know).
Wouldn’t it be funny if it were an accidental simulation? Like some other massive program encrypts its data but scrambling data and it just so happens, Boltzmann-like, the ciphertext for the program is the source code and state of the simulation.
Another fascinating examination of complex and intriguing topics; explained so clearly (well, as clearly as such things can be) Thank you.
On this topic, I saw a TH-cam short thing a while back. It was about a very successful scientist who researches into simulations. After a conference speech he gets into am conversation with someone at the bar. They get onto how would you know if you were in a simulation, and they discuss the idea of putting someone in the simulation who can ask if the subject wants out. Then the guy at the bar says "Well, do you?"
I've been trying to find it again but with no luck. Can any kind person who recognises this point me in the right direction.
That was fun! Thx
I love hearing the possibilities of the simulation hypothesis; keep up the great work John Michael Godier!
A counter argument for the simulation hypothesis could be that there are many more real universes, maybe infinite, that can host life then a computer even can create which makes it more likely that we live inside one of those and not in a simulation.
But if there's infinite universes that could create life then there's an infinite amount universes that could create supercomputers. The problem is the same but on an even more massive scale.
That’s literally the same thing with extra steps
Infinite time + Boltzmann constructs is perhaps the spookiest realization of all. Every wondrous and horrific thing that could ever possibly happen eventually will, an infinite number of times. Many genuinely awe-inspiring things will happen, but so will the most absurdly wicked and disturbing 😶Can't get much spookier than that.
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Let's face it, any solution to the simulation hypothesis is terrifying.
very bad scary stuff
Not really. It is what it is 🤷♀️