If this question is asked in this part of the world and most of the countries of the globe, it will be considered an explicit violation of the postulates of the religious mind regardless of religion, and a direct challenge to the worldly sciences that are taught in thousands of universities and colleges in the world, and to the reality in which humans live in particular.
It is a question that revolves and is discussed in the minds of scientists, researchers, thinkers and technologists who are considered as strongmen in various sciences in many countries of the developed world, materially and scientifically, and the issue of being virtual beings that live in the simulation of the cosmic computer and create through simulation perceptions of reality on demand instead of simulating reality completely all the time – Just like a video game optimized to display only parts of the scene to the player – and maybe that’s why we can’t travel faster than the speed of light, because if we could we’d be able to reach another galaxy, would we become a technologically savvy civilization with massive computing power that would simulate the life our ancestors lived from centuries ago?
Regardless of our intellectual constants, the concept of simulating reality and the belief that our reality is simulated is a matter of a scientifically existing possibility, regardless of the percentage that is considered to be so small that the idea is unrealistic. And if we live in a simulation, the universe we observe is just a small part of the totality of physical existence.
The concept, of course, fills science fiction books and movies, but some physicists and philosophers say it’s possible that we’re actually living in a simulation even if it means discarding what we know or think we know about the universe and our place in it. If the hypothesis of simulation is correct, as some believe, then this means that there is a creator, an architect, and a supreme power that did not design the world, according to our faith convictions.
On the other hand, does a person reach the ability to simulate brains? True, we don’t yet have the technology to do this, but there’s no conceptual obstacle to it, and once a detailed and accurate enough brain simulation has been created, it could possibly generate conscious experiences! Is it possible that all our ideas about the world we live in are wrong? Is it simply the result of our desire to believe that we are “real”?
More worryingly, if we live in a computer simulation or something similar, is it possible for the simulation to stop running at any moment? And that moment would be electronic resurrection and not necessarily by our standards in this world.
The importance of raising such matters beyond the dialectic is that science is relative, as is the human mind and its conception of this world. And if there are a few who believe in these concepts and are the ones who control the world, then it is worth thinking about.
What are the implications of those concepts in our dealings with that category in the world around us, the real implications for how we should view our world and the future of our species, as well as the implications for the way we should live our lives if we have to accept the fact that some of us believe that we We live in simulation, and scientific theories that talk about parallel universes and black holes, are they experimental science or closer to simulation theory?
* Emirati writer and researcher in the affairs of peaceful coexistence and intercultural dialogue.
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