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Is our current technology on pace to simulate an entire universe perfectly?
To perfectly resolve an entire universe, would require all of the energy in the universe, therefor you might be able to create incredibly convincing simulations, but we would really only resolve them to that point of things we are looking at, at any given time.
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Originally Posted by GGG
Are you willing to state with certainty that we don’t live in a simulation?
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I think the whole simulation argument is pretty week, but at this time it is an attempt at a naturalistic explanation at the cause of things. So I would say we can't dismiss it out of hand the way we can dismiss things like god, panpsychism or dualism...
If I were to say what we should think about simulation theory, the best argument they have for this theory relies on speculative technology that is basically science fiction at this point in time. The resolution level of the universe just doesn't seem to fit to well with the idea that well at all, you would expect the resolution of a simulation to be inconsistent from the point of view of those inside the program as we are not the intended viewer, and it would be resolved from the point of view of the user. I suspect this whole idea is a modern version of god that will become less and less plausible as we fill in the gaps in our knowledge until it reaches the point being a ridiculous idea, but for now I wouldn't call it a category error to compare the people who claim we know that we are not in a simulation with those who claim to know that we are, they are in the same realm.