Simulation is the imitation of a real-world process over time. Simulation makes use of models which represent the main characteristics of the selected process, and simulation mainly represents the evolution of the model over time.
It is used in many contexts such as technology, optimizing testing training, education, safety engineering, and video games. It is also used for scientific modeling of natural or human systems in order to get an insight into their functioning.
Simulation video games are a super-category of video games, specially designed to simulate real-world activities. It copies various activities from real life in the form of games for purposes such as training, analysis, and prediction.
There is no fixed goal in the game, the player is allowed to control a character or environment freely. Some well-known examples of this type of game are war games, business games, and role-play simulation.
The simulated hypothesis states that reality could be simulated. For example from quantum computer simulation to an indistinguishable degree from the true reality. It could contain conscious minds who may not be aware of the fact that they live inside a simulation
This is very much different from the technologically achievable concept of virtual reality which can be easily distinguished from actuality. But the simulated reality is impossible to separate from the true reality.
Computationalism is a philosophy of mind theory which states that cognition is a type of computation. It is very relevant to simulation hypotheses which show how a simulation could contain conscious subjects, as needed by a virtual people simulation.
It is known that physical systems can be simulated to a certain degree of accuracy. If computationalism is correct then artificial consciousness could be generated which establishes the theoretical possibility of a simulated reality.
A dream can be considered as a type of simulation as a result dream hypothesis cannot be figured out. Although It has been debated that considerations of simplicity and common sense rule against it.
Countless brainiacs and enthusiasts have pondered over the question ‘What is reality?’ for centuries, formulating theories from scientific to mystical. From a common point of view, the reality is something we can perceive through our five senses.
But according to many philosophers and physicists, reality can be an ultra high tech computer simulation where we sim live, sim work, sim laugh, and sim love.
According to Rizwan Virk, a tech entrepreneur and author of the Simulation Hypothesis, though we perceive the world as ‘material’ and ‘real’ doesn’t mean that it is so. The findings of quantum physics throw some doubt on the fact that the material universe is real.
Virk also mentioned the renowned physicist John Wheeler who said that physics had evolved from ‘everything is a particle’ to ‘everything is information’.
Here are some irrefutable reasons which suggest that we might be living in a simulation. We will discuss those here:
1) The Mandela Effect:-
Some people claim that there was TV coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death in the 1980s though he actually died in 2013. The ‘Mandela effect’ supposedly proves that the person or whoever is in charge of our simulation is changing the past.
This also hints at the existence of parallel universes, and some persons have crossed from one universe where Mandela died in the 1980s into ours where he lived till 2013. Some other phenomenons of this sort were also noticed like some remembering the name of Berenstein Bears children’s book series as Berentstein while others recalling a movie from 1990’s Shazaam which never existed.
2) Missing Aliens:-
We have already spent billions sending probes to outer space to find the evidence of extraterrestrials. It can be said that Aliens are far more technologically advanced than us and the fact that we have not yet located them suggests that we live in a simulation they know how to escape from.
3) Electrons that cannot make up their minds:-
We all know about the physics famous double-slit experiment, where electrons are fired at a photosensitive screen through slits in a copper plate, producing an interference pattern that indicates wave-like behavior.
But electrons behave like particles when the same experiment is conducted under observation and there is then no interference pattern form. Through this experiment, we can say that our simulation is conserving its resources and doing certain things only when there is an observer.
4) DNA which contains a computer virus:-
A multidisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Washington in 2017 proved that they could embed computer code into the physical strands of DNA. They try to show that computers working in a gene sequence were vulnerable to attack. They also have inadvertently revealed that the biological reality was in fact computer coding all along.
5) Climate change:-
Coincidentally our civilization is set on the cusp of environmental chaos which suggests that we could be an ancestor simulation made in hopes that we would show our creators how we can solve an energy crisis. This theory is slightly similar to the aliens- as- simulation- quitters theory.
6) Video games that look like real life:-
Elon Musk believes in Nick Bostrom’s hypothesis which states that if humanity survives long enough it can create technology running simulations of reality. It can create many such simulations and therefore there will be many simulated realities and one base reality.
So statistically it is like we live in a simulation now. According to Musk, further proof of the fact that we live in a simulation is video games. In video games previously 40 years ago we had Pong, two rectangles, and a dot. Now we have photorealistic 3D with millions playing simultaneously. In the future, we can assume that games will become indistinguishable from reality.
7) Quarks with Computer Code:-
This also points to the existence of a simulated reality. Theoretical physicist James Gates claims that he has identified what appears as real computer codes embedded in the equations of string theory that can describe the fundamental particles of our universe.
8) Why does our universe have rules?:-
Max Tegmark, the MIT cosmologist, pointed out that the strict laws of physics in our universe are a piece of possible evidence that we live in a video game. In this theory, the speed of light, which is the fastest rate for any particle to travel, depicts the speed limit for transmitting information within our simulation.
9) The Goldilocks Zone:-
Our planet exists within a Goldilocks zone, a term is given by astrobiologists. It is that close to the star so that greenhouse gases can trap heat to keep liquid water, but also maintaining a distance so that the planet does not become a Venusian hothouse. The fact that we live in an orbital spot is circumstantial evidence for proving the simulation hypothesis.
10) It is not possible to prove that we are not living in a simulation:-
It may be easier to prove that we live in a simulated reality than to prove we are not. Zohreh Davoudi, Nuclear physicists believe that would appear as pixels if we are within a simulation and unending beams if we are in Base reality. David Chalmers Nyu philosopher said that it is not possible to get proof that we are not living in simulation as any evidence you get could be simulated.
