'Simulated Reality' like Science Fiction: Are We Living in 'Simulation'?

- Future Science-KR Chowdhury

For the past decade, focus on the events that have taken place around us in the past. You think our life is bouncing like the waves of the ocean, like a movie script is written. Reach the shore and turn back. Again a new wave emerges. Our sky, our land, the soil touching the soles of our feet, our body, our mind, our soul, our consciousness, this whole world is no magic.

Aren't we living in a virtual reality? Like a computer video game, aren't we living characters from an alien computer's pre-coded program? Is the world around us and the universe really a virtual world? Can human beings get caught up in the whirlpool of such questions when human beings and philosophers think deeply in their minds?

Are scientists recognizing such a virtual reality as a 'simulation'? Two short articles on 'Simulation Hypothesis' have been published in the world famous science magazine Scientific American. Many intellectuals, philosophers, scientists and technology experts are believing in 'simulation hypotheses'. Why do we feel like we are puppets dancing at the fingertips of an alien power?

'Simulated reality'

The perfect synonym for assimilating the simulation is not available in Gujarati or Hindi. In Gujarati we can do its meaning, 'pre-planned commanding imitation'. During an experiment, a scientist may have thought that my existence and my universe are not part of an invisible force or a person's computer program, right?

If you want to dig deeper into the roots of the simulation hypothesis that sounds like science fiction, you have to remember the Hollywood science fiction film 'Matrix' which was released in the 19th century. In which human beings are forced to live in 'simulated reality' by other forces.

Whose journey from beginning to end is a computer program. Two other science fictions based on similar simulation programs have also been published.

David Cronenberg's science fiction novel 'Videodrome' is published in the 18th and Terry Gilliam's science fiction 'Brazil' is published in the 18th. In a nutshell, we can identify the creation of a world that makes human beings living in a virtual world a reality, as 'simulated reality'.

An essay was published in 2006. Whose philosopher-writer Hatath 'Nick Bostrum'. The situation formation he defined is known as the 'simulation hypothesis'. How do the great personalities of the science world react to simulations? Take a look here too.

How do the great personalities of science react to simulations?

Joining SpaceX and Tesla, 'Elon Musk' is known for experimenting with new technologies. He started experiments on how the human brain and computer could interact. "If we live in basic reality, the probability is one in a billion," says technology expert Elon Musk. Connected with the inventions of American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech recognition.

He authored two best-selling books, including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Seagullity Is Near, and How to Mind: The Secret of Human Thought. He has also advocated for the creation of a 'cyborg', a combination of robots and humans. Ray Kurzweil, Google's machine intelligence guru, believes that 'our universe could be a science experiment performed by a junior high school student living in another universe!' In the aftermath of the Big Bang, the famous cosmologist Alan H., in giving an understanding and hypothesis of the phenomenon of 'inflation'. Guth has been an important contributor.

In 2013, he was awarded the world's most valuable prize, the 'Fundamental Physics Prize'. He currently serves as a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan H., who understands simulations well. Guth points to a possibility, saying, 'The way a biological laboratory creates a whole colony of micro-organisms in a petri dish. In the same way our universe could have been created by a super intelligent creature. Even though our whole universe is real, the possibility of a kind of lab experiment (performed by a super intelligent creature) cannot be ruled out. ' How do we finally figure out what kind of simulation we are living in?

Are we living in a 'simulation'?

For example, if we prepare a computer program based simulation of an animal, we can study the evolution and behavior of the animal. Simulations of human society based on certain rules can also be prepared. From which human beings cooperate with each other? How do cities develop? How does their economy work? Can they reach some intellectual capacity? Many such morning answers can be obtained. Which requires complex computer power and programming. If you want to create a virtual world with simulations, you have to use a quantum computer and a DNA based computer. For this, the motherboard of a quantum computer has to be created using quantum circuits and quantum gates etc., like electronics. Then a simulation can be prepared in it. An algorithm has to be developed using the laws of quantum mechanics to ascribe reality. A giant computer screen is needed to turn the whole universe into a virtual reality.

Houman Owahadi is an expert in computational mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. This type of mathematics is used to create algorithms for videogames and simulations. "If the computer had infinite computer power, it would be possible for us to know that we live in a simulation even though we live in a virtual world," he says. If we capture this kind of possibility, we also capture the limited resources and principles of computers. Which has not yet become possible. Think again with videogames at the center, to create a virtual world in the computer, the expert and gifted programmer makes maximum use of his programming power. So you don't have to overuse computer resources to do calculations. ' The phenomena of the universe, natural forces, numerous galaxies, the expanding universe, etc. show that we are not currently living in a simulation!

Professor Nick Bostrom's 'Simulation Hypothesis'

Although we are not currently living in simulation, one can deduce from the experience of the current computer scientist that it is possible to create simulations on a large scale. Suppose that in some other galaxy in the universe, on a planet, even more developed species than human beings have been born. Their technological development is a thousand times greater than our technological development. So there is no doubt that they can create a simulation of the vast universe, which works on certain physical laws, ranging from the atoms that make up the microscopic matter. The possibilities of science were examined by a philosopher from Oxford University from a philosophical point of view. In 2006, Oxford University philosopher and professor Nick Bostrome published a beautiful essay (research paper) detailing the simulation in 'Philosophical Quarterly'. In which he demonstrated three possibilities.

Intelligent civilizations can never reach the simulation stage. Where they can do the simulation, because their civilization is either extinct or they become extinct before they reach the stage where the simulation is ready. That is, they have reached the stage where a factor can erase their existence, or create an intelligent civilization simulation, but for some reason they do not want to create a simulation. Or

The last third phase is important. In which intelligent civilization, simulation experiment even while taking risks.

In all three possibilities outlined above, we can get the results and answers of the experiment by examining the possibility as a psychoanalysis, by placing the word earthly, instead of intelligent civilization. Which shows that Earthlings are not currently well-equipped to create large-scale simulations. Based on this possibility, simulation hypotheses have been born.