How the Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis Explains Just About Everything
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Don't think I ever posted this in the thread, though it's kinda old now ->
A Unified Explanation of Quantum Phenomena?TheCase for thePeer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesisas an Interdisciplinary Research Program Quote:Abstract:In my2013 article, “A New Theory of Free Will”, Iargued that several serious hypotheses in philosophy and modern physicsjointly entail that our reality is structurally identical to apeer-to-peer (P2P) networked computer simulation. The present paper outlines howquantum phenomena emerge naturally from the computational structure of a P2P simulation. §1 explains theP2P Hypothesis. §2 then sketches how the structure of any P2P simulation realizesquantum superposition and wave-function collapse (§2.1.), quantum indeterminacy (§2.2.), wave-particle duality (§2.3.), and quantum entanglement (§2.4.). Finally, §3 argues that although thisisby no means a philosophical proof thatour reality is a P2P simulation, it provides ample reasons to investigate the hypothesisfurther using the methods of computer science, physics, philosophy, and mathematics.
'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 (2020-06-19, 01:58 AM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: Don't think I ever posted this in the thread, though it's kinda old now -> 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. (2020-06-19, 07:03 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: I have had a few thoughts about the Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis: 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
Quantum chemistry paper & the P2P Hypothesis
Marcus Arvan Quote:I came across your work on the peer-to-peer simulation hypothesis having recently published an article in the journal Chemical Science detailing the first instance of a computational physics simulation being performed using a blockchain virtual computer.
'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
Mesh World P2P Simulation Hypothesis
By Eric Grange An interesting different "take" on the virtual reality P2P world/universe simulation concept. Grange appears to accept Arvan's assumption of the outside-of-the-simulation existence of humans as the users or participators in the simulation, rather than the untenable notion that we are actually part of the simulation. Some apparently confirmed by observation predictions of the hypothesis: Quote:Time must be localized and relative. Globally shared states become impossible (outside degenerate cases), including time. This is an intrinsic limitation of efficient decentralization, and would be a constraint on any set of simulation rules. Some other examples of Grange's predictions of this hypothesis, ones that also seem to be borne out by observation: Speed limit Quote:"A decentralized simulation is a set of local data states, each evolving locally, and which can only be propagated with technological delays. Hubble shift with distance Quote:"Energy or matter crossing vast distances of void would appear slowed down, and more slowed down the more void they crossed. Big Bang, apparent expansion rate, large-scale spatial "flatness", and entropy increase Quote:"Under the Big Bang Theory, our world at its beginning was extremely dense, occupying an extremely small volume of space.
The speed of light as (largely?) fixed limit is one of those things that does make me wonder about reality being a simulation.
But so much of physics remains a mystery, and we've likely much further to go in our own ability to simulate realities. It will be interesting to see the way the Simulation Hypothesis chews away at the position of the pseudo-skeptics...
'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 (2020-10-25, 10:59 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: The speed of light as (largely?) fixed limit is one of those things that does make me wonder about reality being a simulation. The speed of light to scale in graphical animation: https://twitter.com/i/status/1320541063875088385 . This is one of the best physics animations yet that I have seen to enable really understanding the ultimate slowness of the speed of light beyond the local Earthly scale of distances. The impression is that either the Universe is inconceivably large or the speed of light is extremely slow, or both. To the same scale a depiction of a light packet traversing the distance to the nearest star would be virtually stationary, taking months to move a visible amount. To me this makes the simulation hypothesis seem even more persuasive, because of explaining the absolute light speed limit as an expected artifact of inherent processing limits on the part of the multiprocessor virtual world/universe simulation, rather than a de facto limit arbitrarily imposed by the design of the cosmos being at least in part in accordance with Einsteinian relativity.
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Arvans articles from when he was the featured author on Flickers of Freedom
Some highlights: Quote:Let us now consider the Luck Argument. As Christopher Evan Franklin (p. 201) puts it, we can summarize the Luck Argument as follows: If it seems crazy to say we can be authors of the laws that govern us see Talbott's Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen? =-=-= Quote:There's a simpler way to put this: =-=-= Quote:Historically, philosophical debate about the mental lives of non-human animals has bounced back and forth between the following two diametrically opposed views:
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