How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

Re:How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside o... by asplake on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:33PM (#20298423)

Trying to make sense of that last sentence. Putting words in your mouth, but you mean that we live in a simulation, for some definition of 'simulation' that we don't yet fathom?

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Re:How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside o... by criloz2 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:44PM (#20298539)

yeah, I think that simulation is the closest word that we have right now for describing it, like many other times a word tend to be overused to describe multiples related things, till a new word is invented

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Re:How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside o... by Fellshard on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:52AM (#20304867)

Projection? Seems most appropriate for what seems to be essentially an argument for a reified Plato's Cave.

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Re:How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside o... by Retra on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:17AM (#20304490)

'Simulation' has already been invented, and it pretty much exclusively refers to things that are not fundamental to how the universe works. So it would seem like the opposite of the closest word we have for describing how the universe fundamentally works.

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Re:How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside o... by i4t on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:59AM (#20301849)

a simulation of what exactly?

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