Our universe is one huge computer simulation being run by our descendants?

[dabuddha]

Someone must have just seen Thirteenth floor.

 

[clamum]

A previous boss introduced me and another co-worker to Bostrom's paper. Mind blowing stuff, and the way it was described seemed pretty damn logical.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

You're stupid.

You haven't answered my question. What is inconsistent about an infinite regress?

Please, do tell. It should be very revealing.

 

[destrekor]

I understand the simulation theories, but I don't get the concept that we and the entire universe is simulated by our descendants. So, where did they come from? Who were we, the parents, in the true reality?

To my brain, it makes much for sense for this to be a simulation only if it was created by an entirely different species/group/someone in a different universe altogether.

 

[Jeff7]

I understand the simulation theories, but I don't get the concept that we and the entire universe is simulated by our descendants. So, where did they come from? Who were we, the parents, in the true reality?

To my brain, it makes much for sense for this to be a simulation only if it was created by an entirely different species/group/someone in a different universe altogether.

It's computers all the way down.


One of the universe simulations created a Möbius portal to one of the other simulations, and then the computer pushed itself through.
So there are no real universes left.

 

[kache]

It's computers all the way down.

An infinite Matrioska.
That would be fun. I would make my quest to reach the reality, going through all simulations. 😀

 

[dennilfloss]

If we're a simulation made by our descendants, then the children we make (and so on) are also a simulation, so all our descendants are themselves a simulation of their own making...

If we're a simulation, we have to have been made by someone from outside our universe, not our descendants.

 

[alkemyst]

It was a .99 cent app I bought in the year 2084 on your calendar.