I listened to an interesting concept last night, cleverly described by Russell Brand of all people, the comedian and actor for the uninitiated.
He was talking about the Simulation Hypothesis, where a significant number of smart people believe the probability of us being in a simulation is greater than the probability of us not being in one. Russell said that legitimacy of this being taken as a more rational thought is due to its link to technology. We build computers, we run simulations on them, these simulations (if advanced enough) could run their own simulations and so on into oblivion. There is nothing esoteric about this, thus appealing to those who don't believe in God due to its apparently sound reasoning.
But wait, how is that not different to there being a God, except for pedantic semantics? Our creator would instead be a geeky pimpled teenager of enormous proportions, rather than the bearded deity who imposes endless bizarre rules which conflict from religion to religion. He bangs out endless C++ code on his buggy old laptop, thus being the master of his own universe.
The concept of there being a creator has been around from year dot, yet to the modern scientific mind it only appears more rational once we introduce the concept of being in a simulation.
And so I had seen the light. Thank you Russell Brand for pointing out that God may indeed be currently addicted to playing Pokemon, while forgetting about the next impending typhoon about to decimate the Philippines.
He was talking about the Simulation Hypothesis, where a significant number of smart people believe the probability of us being in a simulation is greater than the probability of us not being in one. Russell said that legitimacy of this being taken as a more rational thought is due to its link to technology. We build computers, we run simulations on them, these simulations (if advanced enough) could run their own simulations and so on into oblivion. There is nothing esoteric about this, thus appealing to those who don't believe in God due to its apparently sound reasoning.
But wait, how is that not different to there being a God, except for pedantic semantics? Our creator would instead be a geeky pimpled teenager of enormous proportions, rather than the bearded deity who imposes endless bizarre rules which conflict from religion to religion. He bangs out endless C++ code on his buggy old laptop, thus being the master of his own universe.
The concept of there being a creator has been around from year dot, yet to the modern scientific mind it only appears more rational once we introduce the concept of being in a simulation.
And so I had seen the light. Thank you Russell Brand for pointing out that God may indeed be currently addicted to playing Pokemon, while forgetting about the next impending typhoon about to decimate the Philippines.
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