tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30536174.post852099539837973808..comments2024-01-01T17:07:57.427-08:00Comments on SoftwarePhysics: An IT Perspective on the Origin of Chromatin, Chromosomes and CancerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30536174.post-33252883064947710742014-04-11T20:36:04.945-07:002014-04-11T20:36:04.945-07:00Steve, you make some very interesting arguments. ...Steve, you make some very interesting arguments. None of which however obviate the rather easy discernment of "fake universes." There are, for the experienced carbon-based life form, many simple experiments providing evidence of simulation. As you point out, "With positivism, physicists only seek out models of reality - not reality itself." While this is laudable for galactic social work - it fails all kinds of belief criteria. Divine lore tells us, the angels are in the details. Yet these "models" fail over and over again - e.g. anthropogenic global warming. Entirely the product of computer modeling that even the simulated planet refuses to confirm. <br />Beane et al, in "Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation" point to the resolution of a time space lattice as simple indicators of a "logic-based" universe (my coinage.) Granularity constraints make identification of simulated "reality" rather uncomplicated. For example, create an experiment requiring very high resolution or rasters (visualizations) beyond your "observed" bounds, and measure latency. Such experiments confirm Beane's constraints and thereby the constraints on logic-based universes. <br /><br />This is evidence supplemental to John D. Barrow's proposition that even the most intelligent programmers would create programs with errors and it is [only] a matter of time before we detect what he calls “glitches”. <br /><br />The entire discussion reduces to the idea that higher intelligences will create sims for commercial and entertainment purposes. Much as humans do in software today. We have no reason to doubt this evolutionary path. And so we come to Barrow's posit that we shall encounter FAKE universes. If this is the case in human experience it paints a rather dark, discouraging picture of higher intelligence. It suggests that evolution, artificial or organic, has produced a society bereft of ethics; incapable of moral fortitude. A collective intelligence willing to settle for "models" of reality as opposed to natural, organic reality from a master creator. This is a great disappointment to curious mortals who rely on a "positivistic" philosophy to guide us forward.Artimus Kantanquerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076787894620498619noreply@blogger.com