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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why does the EARTH look Round?
« on: February 02, 2021, 04:13:08 PM »
Unless the earth is perfectly flat, uni-directional Universal Acceleration would not keep us planted on the ground, right?
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I completely agree with everything the original poster said. This is what needs to be discussed more regarding flat earth.
The only part you lose me at is the bit about Earth accelerating upwards infinitely and eternally.
I find it much more plausible that Earth is completely stationary, and all inherent functions of Earth are simply programmed into the simulation..
It's an interesting idea, but with a few caveats.
The big one is you can't prove or disprove it. There is no test you can run to determine you are, or are not in a simulation. It's still an interesting idea to ponder.
It also assumes we will survive long enough to create so many simulations, which isn't at all a given considering humanity's track record.
We likely will have better things to calculate than simulating humans in the past, like trying to reverse entropy or halt the expansion of the universe or defend against aliens. I can't imagine simulating humans will be the top priority, although who knows, simulating trillions of people to come up with solutions to problems isn't a terrible idea.
More likely is it's aliens simulating us, trying to decide the best way to deal with such a cranky species and looking for the best outcome.
If we are in a simulation, we are also guessing who or what is simulating us, or what the real universe is like. There is no reason it has to be equal to the one we are living in, perhaps it has no speed of light limits, or has other physical properties that make physical computation much easier. The real universe could be far more complex than we could ever hope to understand with out tiny little simulated minds. Endless possibilities, but no way to ever know.
Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future. Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct. One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race.
It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones.
Therefore, if we don't think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.