Unlike the movie THE MATRIX that presented us with a “brain in a vat” scenario, the simulated universe theory suggests there is no organic substrate. Said simply, in the simulated universe theory there may not be a “sleeping NEO” behind the matrix to wake up. In fact, I suspect that there may never have been a biological substrate at all. Follow me…said the white rabbit.
First of all let’s look at the image above. It’s an image of Iron Pyrite cubes projecting out of marl or mudstone. Yes, it is real and yes it does occur that way in nature. Here we have a naturally occurring event that happens inside the Earth without the assistance of any human technological interference and yet look how artificial and man-made it appears.
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom and his paper on the Simulation Argument. His 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.”
Could we have evolved from some deep universal technology! Look at any growth pattern of a tree (Fibonacci sequence)a nd you can’t help but see the instinctual and indigenous technology at work at the base of our universe. These numerical growth patterns are predictable and repeatable. Is this indigenous technology merely riding our DNA? Could all of the complex numeric biological systems be proof of the simulated universe theory?
If we follow this theory and if we accept that algorithms, mathematics and geometry existed before humans, then we must admit that the universe is a “digital information event.” This digital information event that we call the universe may be a simulation running some time in the distant future.
“Technology is a natural byproduct of human consciousness directly inherited from Earth and the universe. It is numeric, and organic. We can trace the origin of technology back through biological history, all the way to stardust. It cannot be stopped any more than we could stop the planets from spinning or galaxies from forming and decaying.” -Gray Scott ....read more>>>....