Disambiguation of Intelligent Design.
I had a conversation with a theorist that had the belief that the universe was a computer simulation, and I was skeptical to say the least. the points that he provided were similar to those that theists would use. preferring to use extra-realistic things to explain how a computer could exist that would store all the data that was the known universe.
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My lackluster critiques of this model included the presence of irrational numbers and seemingly infinite amounts of data. in a computer simulation that would have to be finite. a lack of glitches, any kind of computer crashes, as well as a lack of loading screen. he held the belief that we were more NPC's than players in the simulation, indicating that when the program was down the simulation was effectively paused. which I hoped to show that things like mental pictures, complex ideas and perceptions of the world would bloat the program having copies of the same universe played multiple times based on varying perception. he shrewdly noted that that data was effectively already preserved in the nervous system and it's complex workings.
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My lackluster critiques of this model included the presence of irrational numbers and seemingly infinite amounts of data. in a computer simulation that would have to be finite. a lack of glitches, any kind of computer crashes, as well as a lack of loading screen. he held the belief that we were more NPC's than players in the simulation, indicating that when the program was down the simulation was effectively paused. which I hoped to show that things like mental pictures, complex ideas and perceptions of the world would bloat the program having copies of the same universe played multiple times based on varying perception. he shrewdly noted that that data was effectively already preserved in the nervous system and it's complex workings.
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But I digress a little. following this whole chain of thought to it's logical conclusion, effectively made me realize that we'd be living in something like "Last Thursdayism" where every time the program is interrupted the world is created again.
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This was not a pleasing notion, but I could not find direct flaw with the logic save for the clear lack of observation of the computer we were in. which would be proven when certain billionaires finish their search to prove that this is simulation
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This was not a pleasing notion, but I could not find direct flaw with the logic save for the clear lack of observation of the computer we were in. which would be proven when certain billionaires finish their search to prove that this is simulation
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But now I get into the meat of the question. This is intelligent design. plain and simple if we are NPC's and not players, then we have been programmed by a god in a way. so why are these two positions both of intelligent design considered in radically different light? for all we know Alan and Godfrey might be Alah and God and the holy wars an Easter egg for when the simulation reaches the civilization stage of development. yet the notion that a being or beings exist beyond the natural world and that made everything that we can perceive, is struck down as BS almost right away?
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To me, the two viewpoints are wholly similar. momentarily un-provable, not backed up by any observable fact, but not yet wholly proven untrue. so is there much of a difference between these points of view, or are they the same side of the "intelligent design" coin? and by extension, do you think them both plausible? Both wholly BS, or are they different?
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The theory is based on that we cannot DISPROVE that we are living in a simulation. And given the fact that it is theoretically possible to simulate a universe then it is theoretically possible to be living in one right now. So indeed it would be a product of intelligent design since there was a "programmer" who created the simulation in his "true" world. You could consider him as God Here's intelligent design in action ;) https://www.youtube.com/
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