No, we're not living in a computer simulation, say theoretical physicists

[Arequire]

The way i see it, the difference is this. In a simulator, someone else makes the rules. In a simulator, the other "human" is a program you can't change or reason with, because someone else controls it. So instead trying to make someone change his "mind" for example, you just have to think "ok, incompatible program, no need to waste my time". Or, anything happening, can attribute it to the will of the external programmer/simulation supervisor.

Maybe, but who's to say the beings running the simulation can't drop enough protons, neutrons and electrons inside and sit back and watch as their simulated universe is formed and eventually evolve into what it is today. The only rule would be that the simulation exists in the first place and everything would still have complete free will. They'd get to observe how countless species are born, how they live, how they adapt to an ever changing world and how/why they go extinct.

 

[bribon77]

Well, I think Plato said something like that.
The other one does not exist Free Will all this controlled by someone. the universe has laws, and there is no law if it is not given by someone.

The good news is, it's not controlled by Microsoft.

 

[Exterminator]

Well to bend your mind a bit more and if you have 6 hours to kill watch these two podcasts

 

[codswollip]

Nothing is real... And nothing to get hung about... #reboot

 

[Deleted member 178]

How those physicists can believe and apply the physics laws they learned when the said laws were created by the matrix itself....

I let you meditate