How the Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis Explains Just About Everything

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(2020-06-19, 07:03 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: I have had a few thoughts about the Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis:

The Marcus Arvan-proposed P2P participatory physical reality simulation concept seems to well explain such mysteries as the ultimate nature of quantum mechanics and its well-verified but mysterious undergirding of our physical reality.

All of the physics of our world, including Einstein's relativity equations, E = MC^^2, etc. etc. would merely be what was programmed into the P2P simulation.

According to the P2P virtual reality simulation hypothesis absolutely all of our world, the physical reality we experience and observe, is illusory and is basically information computed in some other (higher) reality. We as participators in the cosmic simulation would not be artifacts of the simulation - we would be the users, true conscious sentient thinking entities inhabiting that higher reality.

A spiritual/metaphysical interpretation of this could be that this P2P simulation reality is merely the underlying mechanism by which Spirit creates the playground of experience and limitation and learning for eternal souls.

Of course, logically, another possibility could be that the higher level P2P simulation world could in turn just be another even higher-level P2P simulation, and so on without end, ad infinitum. The intellect, along with abstract thought, creativity and imagination can get lost in its own ponderings of the possibilities.

Well I don't think you can have an infinite series of simulations, largely because change in the "lower level" simulation has to be driven by some kind of processor in the "higher level". With an infinite series, there would be no change observed in any simulation, because an infinite number of processor dependencies means nothing ever happens.

It might be possible to get around this if the simulations in question are actually "running" in an Idealist mind?

There is a more interesting, IMO, possibility regarding the "peers" in the simulation. That each of us is the center of our own private universe, and these universes resolve into a consensus reality. I believe some call this "Subjective Idealism" though I don't necessarily think all is mind....
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'

- Bertrand Russell


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RE: How the Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis Explains Just About Everything - by Sciborg_S_Patel - 2020-06-19, 07:29 PM

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