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[–] Markimus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The idea that it's theoretically possible that we would be able to simulate a universe of our own leads to the hypothesis that we could be living in a simulation ourselves.

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

That very much reminds me about the reasoning of Descartes why a god must exist: basically because he can think about it.

But really, just because you can think of it doesn’t make anything theoretically possible. For the simulation of a universe we have no idea how to do it.

[–] Markimus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could already theoretically simulate a universe; our only limiting factor is the amount of power we have available to us.

It might not be identical to our own universe as we are still missing the necessary knowledge to do that, though who's to say our host universe has the same laws of physics etc. as ours? It's not necessary to simulate our host universe, though rather a universe with a specific set of parameters that we decide on.

That specific set of parameters were likely chosen for our own universe.

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We can model things and call them “universe”. But that’s about it.

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