“The chances that we are in the basic reality are one billions.” This phrase that summarizes the idea that it is most likely to live in modeling, Elon Musi uttered her in Conference code Since 2016. Since then, he has repeated it with the same naturalness with which he speaks of rockets, electric machines or colonies on Mars.
Musk did not come up with this concept, but in recent years he has placed it in the center of the media discussion, forcing millions of people to think about whether the life we perceive is nothing more than a complex computer program. Basically, as if we were in the matrix.
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The modeling hypothesis ceased to be a concept assigned to philosophers and theoretical physical theoretical to become a topic of global conversation. The image of our existence as a giant video game connects with the digital culture in which we live.
Musk explains this as if he was obvious: “40 years ago we had Pong. Today we have 3D models with millions of players. If we design this evolution into the future, the difference between video games and reality will not be different. “So, the idea that someone – or something – could already develop that the level of technology is disturbing even for its most faithful followers.
In fact, after this discussion is not only a provocation of Musk, but also an intellectual basis of philosopher Oxford Nick Bastrom. In 2003 he published paper who became a link: Do you live in computer modeling? In it he offered three scenarios:
The first is that no civilization never achieves technological ability to create indistinguishable models of reality. Secondly, what they do, but decide not to use them to reproduce the historical passage or alternative worlds. And thirdly, the most disturbing: that these simulations already exist and what we, without knowing it, the characters in one of them. Musk acknowledged that this reasoning convinced him that “almost certainly” we do not live in the original reality.
MIT or Bono University offered experiments to identify possible restrictions in the space-time structure, as if in reality were minimal pixels or limited resolution
Science, far from being in philosophy, also launched clues. Physics Mit or Bonn University suggested experiments to identify possible restrictions in the structure of the time, as if in reality there were minimal pixels or limited resolution. Other studies in collaboration with NASA are studying whether obvious deviations in quantum physics may be an equivalent code error.
Although no final evidence has not been found so far, the only opportunity that our universe is a digital design, opened a new field of scientific speculation.
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A popular culture found in Matrix Its most clear metaphor of this theory. The 1999 film showed millions of viewers the idea of a modeling world that hides the truth after the screen. Significant scenes such as a red pill and a blue pill, or a vision of a green code that falls like rain on the screen, they work today as a normal language to explain the hypothesis.
But although it seems impossible to know if we really are in the modeling, perhaps the most interesting question, but who can be behind this code. What if religion always warned us?
