WTF!!! Some scientist actually believe we are in the matrix.

[Dissipate]

It's obvious that we are living in a computer simulation, and Al Gore invented it.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: JoeKing
The whole argument rests on the idea that "things are just a little too perfect". That our form of life is the only kind out there. That's pretty shallow thinking, lazy even, on the part of the cosmologist (how the hell do these people get those jobs? I'd like to be one and just sit around all day postulating). Life would have evolved from whatever matter is available.

The story behind this bizarre suggestion began with a vexatious question: why is the universe so bio-friendly? Cosmologists have long been perplexed by the fact that the laws of nature seem to be cunningly concocted to enable life to emerge. Take the element carbon, the vital stuff that is the basis of all life. It wasn't made in the big bang that gave birth to the universe. Instead, carbon has been cooked in the innards of giant stars, which then exploded and spewed soot around the universe.

Conditions aren't friendly so life could evolve.
Life evolved because the conditions were friendly.
It was chance that probably led to these exact conditions, and suprisingly, what developed just happened to rely on those conditions.
Duh!
The universe was concocted for life? Yeah, right. Life came about because of the way the universe was concocted, IMO. Different universe, different (or no) life.

you'd think these dumbass philosphers would know their logical fallacies... that's philosophy 101 right there.

 

[jjones]

So what happens to us when they press Ctrl/Alt/Del? I hope they saved game.

 

[SagaLore]

They're refering to The Matrix, but they really should be refering to The Thirteenth Floor. That entire movie was based on this concept.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: xcript
I've read some of this stuff before. Doesn't seem particularly far-fetched.

But yet God and Creation is totally bogus.

 

[SagaLore]

Scientists always over complicating things... if there is another universe with an even more advanced civilization than ours that are simulating our universe, then how did their life come to be any more statistically possible than ours, based on the carbon dependance scenario?

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
They're refering to The Matrix, but they really should be refering to The Thirteenth Floor. That entire movie was based on this concept.

Hey, you're right. I enjoyed that movie!

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Nebor
I quickly dissproved their theory by attempting several matrix moves. I cannot walk properly now.

No, no, you have to miss the ground.

 

[Noirish]

Too long, I'll just take your title as cliffnotes.