0:02 The most convincing case I've ever heard
0:04 for why real life may actually just be a
0:06 simulation was not from the Matrix, but
0:07 from Futurama. Let me explain. In the
0:09 latest episode of Futurama, the
0:10 professor creates a simulation of their
0:12 entire universe. And eventually, he's
0:14 able to make it so close to their own
0:16 reality that naturally, the crew begins
0:17 to care for their simulated counterparts
0:19 and question whether or not they're in a
0:21 simulation, too. The professor quickly
0:22 shuts down this idea, stating that it's
0:24 preposterous. But in response, the crew
0:26 brings up three increasingly compelling
0:28 points that I've never heard before
0:29 regarding simulation theory. Point
0:31 number one, the professor asks, "How
0:33 could anyone care for any kind of
0:34 artificial intelligence knowing at its
0:36 core it's nothing more than a bunch of
0:38 zeros and ones?" And to counter that,
0:39 Leela brings up that we're nothing more
0:41 than a bunch of atoms. And yet together,
0:44 we are more like zeros and ones, atoms
0:45 don't have consciousness. They can't
0:47 think on their own. But yet, the things
0:49 that make us conscious human beings are
0:51 quite literally only made up of atoms.
0:53 So, are atoms really that different than
0:55 zeros and ones? And if that's the excuse
0:57 for being unfeilling towards AI, should
0:59 we also be unfeilling toward each other?
1:00 Point two, the professor states it would
1:02 be computationally impossible to run a
1:04 simulation at our universe's scale
1:05 because it would not be possible to keep
1:07 track of where everything is, admitting
1:08 his simulation can't even do this
1:10 because it requires too much computing
1:12 power. However, Amy protests that
1:14 limitation also exists in real life with
1:15 quantum mechanics, which is actually
1:16 true. The more we know about how a
1:18 particle is moving, the less we know
1:20 about where it actually is and vice
1:21 versa. It's called the Heisenberg
1:23 uncertainty principle, which using the
1:25 professor's terms is like a limitation
1:27 on our universe's computing power. And
1:28 the last point, which in my opinion is
1:30 the most compelling, the professor
1:32 states that every movement of every atom
1:34 gravitationally affects all other atoms
1:36 in the universe, which again is true,
1:38 but no software could possibly compute
1:39 that. So to work around that, he had to
1:41 make the information of those little
1:43 effects travel outward at a fixed speed
1:44 instead of all those reactions happening
1:47 at once. However, Amy points out again
1:49 that we have that limitation in our
1:51 universe as well. Information of any
1:53 kind you can think of, even gravity, is
1:54 confined by the speed of light. So, for
1:56 example, if the sun were to disappear
1:59 right now, there would be absolutely no
2:01 way for us to tell for over 8 minutes.
2:04 This means even our real universe cannot
2:06 compute things instantaneously. There's
2:08 some sort of limit to things affecting
2:09 one another that we don't quite
2:10 understand. But what do you think? Let
2:12 me know below in the comments. And
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