Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information.
So does a simulated life mean that we can live forever? Says theoretical physicist James Gates: “If the simulation hypothesis is valid, then we open the door to eternal life and resurrection and things that formally have been discussed in the realm of religion. As long as I have a computer that’s not damaged, I can always re-run the program.”
We are conscious automata
If our lives are predetermined and robotic, surely there’s a way to confuse the puppeteer? MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark offers some sage advice:
“If you’re not sure at the end of the night whether you’re simulated or not, my advice to you is to go out there and live really interesting lives and do unexpected things, so the simulators don’t get bored and shut you down.”
To bear with uncertainty is to be certain that there remains chaos undulating in the computer code of the cosmos.
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Good q — thank you for the thought James.
The questions you’ve asked in your commentary have been debated in the realm of theology for countless centuries, for what is the difference between living in a simulated universe created by the ultimate computer programmer and living in a universe created by God?