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Originally Posted by Calculon
Well, I don't know if we are "simulated" by some guy eating corn chips and laughing at all of our problems, but I guess it it not entirely improbable. However, I would venture to guess that either way our brains are merely interpreters of the "code of reality". It's sort of like how a compiler interprets binary code consisting of strings of 1's and 0's into words and symbols, but in the case of our brains a complexion of particles, waves, strings, etc.
If we ever find it at all, our "grand unified theory" of physics may reveal this code if it exists. If a theory does not show this code, it is probably not the grand unified theory it claims to be. On the other hand, maybe this code does not exist at all or we will destroy ourselves before we can find it. Over time we have found that many of the constituents of nature that we thought were completely separate have proved to be closely related. We have found that the force keeping ourselves in our seats and the force keeping the earth in orbit around the sun are one and the same. We have combined electricity and magnetism into one force called electromagnetism. String theory is currently attempting to unify Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics.
Needless to say, whether our universe is simulated by somebody else or not does not change the fact that all that exists is merely a mathematical model of some kind. Discovering the most fundamental laws of that mathematical model is the big challenge.
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The mathematical/scientific haromony and inter-relationships in the universe have always suggested to me that God and science are either one and the same, or at the very least, inseparable. If math and science are therefore bound up in God, then our existence being nothing more than a computer simulation isn't all that far fetched. But who is running the simulation? Douglas Adams was onto this whole idea ... you know, the mice ... the meaning of life, the universe and everything ...but what the heck does 42 mean? Wouldn't it be a hoot if we are just a simulation being run to determine what 42 is the answer to?
Edit: You had to know given my handle that I'd work Adams into this somehow.