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    Nick Bostrom - The Simulation Argument

    Are we living inside of a computer simulation?



    http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

    ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnl6nY8YKHs

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    The organic world is a hologram. It is real because holograms are how physical reality works. Organic holograms are the living interactive way we conduct spiritual business within the construct of physical reality. I get into this subject in one of my videos.

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    well yes and well no

    yes well we live in God's dream were every decision happens you can do be or become anything there are no limitations but what ones you give yourself .

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    Quote Originally posted by jonsnow View Post
    well yes and well no

    yes well we live in God's dream were every decision happens you can do be or become anything there are no limitations but what ones you give yourself .
    Thanks for sharing your understanding with us.

    Yes, your one sentence should provide clarity to this deep subject.
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    Yeah the explanation as given by jonsnow doesn't seem to really hold up in the context of this theory. If this theory is true, there is no God... there is only a programmer. And chances are the programmer would be nothing more than program code from a larger simulation, and so on. In fact, the idea that anyone would believe they can be or do anything they want would have been programmed into the code by the programmer. It doesn't really offer any meta explanations.

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    church you are the programmer god is only a observer he rarely helps lol ( ie help yourself )

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    Theories, assumptions, illusions, philosophizing, guesses, intellectualizing, etc.....................Who...... KNOWS ???

    Not I and actually that is probably a good thing, as I think I might not be having this experience if I had the answers. Could be, I may end up being the programmer and or even God.

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    Quote Originally posted by sandy View Post
    Theories, assumptions, illusions, philosophizing ... I may end up being the programmer and [/] or even God.
    Agreed ... but if not ... "God" should beg our forgiveness ...

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    Oh! There was this movie on Tv recently, or within the year. It was a three day show only. Man I want to remember the name! But it showed a group of people in a simulation., where they thought they were in a spaceship and had somewhere great to go. The time frame of the show was the 50's or so..
    One guy escaped and had a mental breakdown realizing that wasnt 'real'.
    I think the people who did it wanted to see what would happen in that scenario. Then! there was this young girl born who had special abilities. they tried to make them go away with injections. Anyways, your post brought me to this memory.

    Also I have avoided this topic of 'Oh we live in a simulation or hologram" because I just couldnt grok it.

    The organic world is a hologram. It is real because holograms are how physical reality works. Organic holograms are the living interactive way we conduct spiritual business within the construct of physical reality. I get into this subject in one of my videos.

    Then hearing your post about Organic holograms is natural that is SOO great to hear! Im starting to get it now..

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    Ok, so when princess Diana died, there were many people who disliked her, some even hated her, they cried tears of sadness, of pain etc, the programme sucked them in as such ?.

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    So who wrote the program that is used by the programmers?

    Turtles all the way down, right?

    there is another proposition that he conveniently leaves out.

    #4. We don't live in a computer simulation.

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    For those with Eyes to see....check this out:

    Laird Scranton discovered what he thought was quantum strings in Ancient Egyptian texts





    I who have studied Ancient Egyptian Texts for a VERY long time remembered this:

    This had interested me for days then I saw it...

    The crown

    The goddess Neith (left) and Nephthys (crown; "inverted" throne with Neb) before dual images of Osiris





    The approach used to calculate all the quantities of interest in the theory remains old-fashioned perturbation theory, which assumes a reasonable starting point and then tries to home in on the correct result by adding an infinite series of corrections. In quantum electrodynamics, these perturbation corrections were represented by Feynman diagrams, and, on summing up infinite numbers of terms, results of surprising accuracy were achieved. On the other hand, when it came to gravity, the perturbation series failed totally to represent a curved space-time by adding a finite number of corrections to an initially flat space-time. Perturbation theory is often plagued with infinity, and infinite sum (when the coupling constant is not small). Superstrings are supposed to be a theory about gravity and matter. Yet physicists continue to treat them as if they exist in a flat background space-time, a picture they hope will be corrected by using a perturbation series. Clearly this whole approach is inadequate and obscures the power of the superstrings themselves.

    M-theory and duality were introduced to overcome the difficulty. Although this approach have yet to give us definitive information about four-dimensional vacua, they have already clarified much of the nonperturbative nature of string theory in 10, 8, and even 6 dimensions, giving us a complex web of dualities between different string compactifications.

    http://universe-review.ca/R15-18-string06.htm



    In mathematics, a duality, generally speaking, translates concepts, theorems or mathematical structures into other concepts, theorems or structures, in a one-to-one fashion, often (but not always) by means of an involution operation: if the dual of A is B, then the dual of B is A. Such involutions sometimes have fixed points, so that the dual of A is A itself. For example, Desargues' theorem in projective geometry is self-dual in this sense.

    Many mathematical dualities between objects of two types correspond to pairings, bilinear functions from an object of one type and another object of the second type to some family of scalars. For instance, linear algebra duality corresponds in this way to bilinear maps from pairs of vector spaces to scalars, the duality between distributions and the associated test functions corresponds to the pairing in which one integrates a distribution against a test function, and Poincaré duality corresponds similarly to intersection number, viewed as a pairing between submanifolds of a given manifold.

    Duality can also be seen as a functor, at least in the realm of vector spaces.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_%28mathematics%29

    NOW:

    Look at the glyph I posted once again....

    Neith: Her name also may be interpreted as meaning water.

    Nephthys: goddess of rivers...Flow/Action

    HINT:

    The secret is in the throne....look at it closely.


    In linear algebra terms, the dual code is the annihilator of C with respect to the bilinear form <,>. The dimension of C and its dual always add up to the length n:

    \dim C + \dim C^\perp = n.

    A generator matrix for the dual code is a parity-check matrix for the original code and vice versa. The dual of the dual code is always the original code.

    A self-dual code is one which is its own dual. This implies that n is even and dim C = n/2. If a self-dual code is such that each codeword's weight is a multiple of some constant c > 1, then it is of one of the following four types:

    Type I codes are binary self-dual codes which are not doubly even.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_code

    "Doubly-even self-dual linear binary error-correcting block code"


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LCVknKUJ4


    Type I codes are binary self-dual codes which are not doubly even.

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    NOW....Again....

    Count the lines in the throne.

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    "Doubly-even self-dual linear binary error-correcting block code"

    supersymmetry (SUSY)



    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc5c608C9RY


    I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

    Of course you are my bright little star, I've miles And miles Of files Pretty files of your forefather's fruit and now to suit our great computer, You're magnetic ink.

    I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.

    There you go man, keep as cool as you can. Face piles And piles Of trials With smiles. It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave And keep on thinking free.

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    A game?

    Our Universe may be a Matrix-Like Computer Game Designed by Aliens, says NASA Scientist:


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypegmGRLoRM



    WELCOME to The Matrix. You've lived here all your life.

    Everything you have ever done or will do could simply be the product of a highly-advanced computer code.

    Every relationship, every sentiment, every memory could have been generated by banks of supercomputers.

    This was the terrifying theory first proposed by British philosopher Nick Bostrom.

    The shocking hypothesis was penned four years after Andrew and Lana Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, a film set in a dystopian future in which humans are subdued by a simulated reality.

    In his paper, Dr Bostrom suggested a race of far-evolved descendants could be behind our digital imprisonment.

    The futuristic beings – human or otherwise – could be using virtual reality to simulate a time in the past or recreate how their remote ancestors lived.

    Sound crazy? Well, it turns out NASA thinks Dr Bostrom might be right.

    Rich Terrile, director of the Centre for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has spoken out about the digital simulation.

    "Right now the fastest NASA supercomputers are cranking away at about double the speed of the human brain," the NASA scientist told Vice.

    "If you make a simple calculation using Moore's Law [which roughly claims computers double in power every two years], you'll find that these supercomputers, inside of a decade, will have the ability to compute an entire human lifetime of 80 years – including every thought ever conceived during that lifetime – in the span of a month.

    "In quantum mechanics, particles do not have a definite state unless they're being observed.

    "Many theorists have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how you explain this.

    "One explanation is that we're living within a simulation, seeing what we need to see when we need to see it.

    "What I find inspiring is that, even if we are in a simulation or many orders of magnitude down in levels of simulation, somewhere along the line something escaped the primordial ooze to become us and to result in simulations that made us – and that's cool."

    The idea that our Universe is a fiction generated by computer code solves a number of inconsistencies and mysteries about the cosmos.

    http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/...NASA-Scientist

    http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-...s-the-evidence

    http://yournewswire.com/universe-a-m...iens-say-nasa/

    VALIS

    Vast Active Living Intelligence System
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    Shadowself, that is awesome supplemental info. Thank you for adding! I swear if I can find more time I will add more here as well...

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    Quote Originally posted by Church View Post
    Shadowself, that is awesome supplemental info. Thank you for adding! I swear if I can find more time I will add more here as well...
    Good morning Church and interested parties!

    Thank you Church. I have some more interesting adds to this but no time today as I have a very busy work schedule. Perhaps over the weekend I'll show you some things that absolutely floored me along these lines. Things from the Ancient civilizations that lean in this direction in a BIG way.

    It's a crazy idea....but is it crazy enough to be true?

    What truth can be derived from an acronym? I don't know....you tell me?

    A computer is composed of logic gates of a basic.... YES AND NOT Correct?

    check it:

    Micro Array of Yes And Not ~ MAYAN



    Nah!!!! Couldn't be....huh?

    DNA computing:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAYA-II

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate

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