THE LATEST Matrix film is about to hit cinemas this month but some scientists believe we’re already living in a computer simulation.
Here’s four facts that scientists and conspiracy theorists use to claim we could be living in ‘the Matrix’.
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Scientists inserted a computer virus into DNA
Back in 2017, researchers at the University of Washington proved it was possible to embed malicious computer code in strands of DNA.
They intended to prove that gene sequencing computers could be attacked in this way but conspiracy theorists use the study to suggest reality is computer coded.
We can’t prove we’re not in a simulation
Professor David Chalmers, from New York University, previously stated: “You’re not going to get proof that we’re not in a simulation, because any evidence that we get could be simulated”.
Some people use this as an argument for the simulation hypothesis and others use it as an argument against.
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We can already create our own simulations
Back in 2014, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics created a 350 million light-year simulation of the Universe.
They then digitally aged it to watch it progress over 13 billion years.
This and our advancing technology is sometimes used as an argument for the Matrix concept.
A famous paper by Nick Bostrom called “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?” discusses the possibility we’re already in a simulation or could become “posthumans” who create ancestor simulations.
Physics has strict rules
Max Tegmark, a cosmologist from MIT, once suggested that the Universe’s strict laws of physics could be evidence that we’re in a video game.
According to Vulture, he said: “If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical.”
Why we’re probably not living in ‘the Matrix’
There are many other scientists who oppose the idea that we’re living in a computer simulation.
American theoretical physicist Professor Sylvester James Gates told The Sun US: “The main problem with so-called “simulation hypothesis” is that it fails to meet a requirement of any proposal claiming to be a scientific one.
“There is no way to falsify this idea.
“Another point to note is the logical foundations of the “Simulation
Hypothesis” are indistinguishable from those of religions.
“If one uses the words “deity” or “deities” instead of programmer(s),
one is led to the same logical and rational conundrum as occurs in
the “Simulation Hypothesis.”
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