We need only look at a computer game to understand how this is a possibility that is only a matter of the limits of representation from data which are necessary to create an environment like our universe. Environments like ours can be represented nearly exactly with enough computing power.
Ludwig Boltzmann was one of the founders of the field of thermodynamics in the nineteenth century.
One of the key concepts was the second law of thermodynamics, which says that the entropy of a closed system always increases. If the universe is a closed system, we would expect the entropy to increase over time. This means that, given enough time, the most likely state of the universe is one where everything is in thermodynamic equilibrium … but we clearly don’t exist in a universe of this type since, after all, there is order all around us in various forms, not the least of which is the fact that we exist.
Obviously then there are other factors in play. Energy of some form is added into the system. One way that is theorized is through the universe being simulated from the outside of the model in which it exists.
One can obtain a rough upper limit for the maximum number of bits of information the universe could possibly hold as being somewhere around 10^122 to 10^124 depending on which parameters you feed in.
We know the entropy of a black hole is related to its surface area divided by the Planck length. So what we can do is pretend the whole universe is a black hole and use the radius of the known universe to get its surface area. And as entropy is related to information, we can calculate the maximum number of bits. Then depending on the details, you’ll get a number between 10^122 and 10^124 bits for the whole universe.
It is thought that one would only need a computer the size of Jupiter to process this information as a dynamic system that would be indistinguishable from reality. Much of this information processing would only be represented as mathematical algorithms a compressed form of reality not actually experienced as a physical reality unless an awareness was using this part of reality which would actually greatly reduce the amount of computing power that would be necessary for the creation of a universe exactly like ours.
So this thought may be interesting or it may just be an exercise in sophistry it depends upon whether or not it is something that can be traced scientifically to work on experimentally replicable bases on this platform level in which we exist.
Are we algorithms?Are we algorithms? Our dna codes our physical form to a large degree though not actually directly Much of the energy is captured by coding systems such as protein folding. Everything follows laws which are as far as we can tell unbreakable and in this way mathematically reliably coded. Everything is locked into a dynamic system of context and energy.
If the universal passage through time is seen like a loaf of bread and someone very far away can look to the past or future depending upon their perspective as if all time is always a present representation would a super strong intelligent algorithm understand this representation as more of a pattern of energies rather than a physical reality? All of the universe is a complex mathematical representation that we sense yet understand very little of the true form.
This is what you would expect of a simulation and agrees with holographic theory as well.
Holographic theory
The universe may be infinite yet fed from a contextual emptiness and running back into contextual uniformity as it is created and continually spent its existence a metaphysic of representation like a dream. What is the cause of existence that made the context change from nothing to some probability and then eventually into a universal reality
If it is merely a mathematical metaphysic represented into physical reality this sounds like holographic Theory a study of physics of black holes, immensely dense concentrations of mass , provide a hint that the holographic theory might be correct. Studies of black holes show that, although it defies common sense, the maximum entropy or information content of any region of space is defined not by its volume but by its surface area.
Everything Is A Number
In addition to studying the relationships within numbers, Pythagoras was also intrigued by the link between numbers and nature. He realized that natural phenomena are governed by laws, and that these laws could be described by mathematical equations. One of the first links he discovered was the fundamental relationship between the harmony of music and the harmony of numbers.
The most important instrument in early Hellenic music was the tetrachord, or four-stringed lyre. Prior to Pythagoras, musicians appreciated that particular notes when sounded together created a pleasant effect, and tuned their lyres so that plucking two strings would generate such a harmony. However, the early musicians had no understanding of why particular notes were harmonious and had no objective system for tuning their instruments. Instead they tuned their lyres purely by ear until a state of harmony was established–a process that Plato called torturing the tuning pegs.
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2015/03/paranormal-phenomena-nonlocal-mind-and.html
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2015/03/paranormal-phenomena-nonlocal-mind-and.html
My new perspective doesn’t fit that well into our standard contemporary verbiage, but a reasonable summary might be:* Individual human minds have an aspect that is “nonlocal”, in the sense of not being restricted to exist within the flow of our time-axis, in the same sense that our bodies are generally restricted.
*Due to this non-localized aspect, it’s possible for human minds that are evidently grounded in bodies in a certain spacetime region, to manifest themselves in various ways outside this spacetime region – thus sometimes generating phenomena we now think of as “paranormal”
*This non-localized aspect of human minds probably results from the same fundamental aspects of the universe that enable psi phenomena like ESP, precognition, and psychokinesis
*The path from understanding which core aspects of physics enable these phenomena, to understanding why we see the precise paranormal phenomena we do, may be a long one – just as the path from currently known physics to currently recognized biology and psychology is a long one.
And here from science20
Skynet is not why Musk and Gates fear AI
People who immerse themselves and use global information flows in disciplined ways understand that they are more than the humans they used to be before the internet came to our pocket devices. But we pale against the next step in our evolution. Mathematician Steven Strogatz reminds us that we are leaving the age of intuition behind. Mathematics is becoming a spectator sport for human mathematicians who can never possibly comprehend monstrous machine-based proofs. No organic chemist can memorize and exploit all known organic chemical reactions to find new molecules and simplify expensive, old reaction pathways to less complex and less costly reaction pathways (Chematica). No doctor can read all known applicable medical literature and cross reference it with all genetic information coming from personalized medicine like IBM’s Watson is starting to do in more and more hospital centers. A few large AIs spread over the planet can do all of this over radio waves not unlike Google Now and Apple’s Siri, the real brains “in” your phones. It’s all good for now, though Edward Snowden and Anonymous might have a different opinions. The fear comes from when the machines will become autonomous and “free-willed” because they will only partly follow our biological paradigms before evolving yet more all on their own to their own ends.
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