I recently noticed an article claiming we might all be living in a computer simulation, like in the movie The Matrix, and they're going to do a study on it, based upon what a computer might do under certain circumstances. (I wonder who is paying for it? Our tax dollars at work, I'm guessing? This is probably why we're so broke.)
Um, first of all, if we're in a computer simulation, what makes these science nerds think that simulation is running the same kind of binary code and programming as we use?* (And if it isn't, then wouldn't the results be wrong?) Isn't that arrogant? It's like saying you understand God and how He thinks. Don't you think? I mean, maybe they're right, but just because their test fails, it doesn't necessarily mean we're not in a computer simulation, because maybe they don't know what to test for to check. (I can't believe I'm actually arguing in favor of being in a computer simulation. Although really it's not that, so much as I'm arguing that scientists so often don't know how to accurately design their studies to reliably test for what they think they're looking for, because so often they are so close to the problem, they can't step back and see the bigger picture due to "tunnel vision".)
Also, if we're really in a computer simulation, does the Mayan Apocalypse not happening indicate the program is flawed, or was that whole prophecy intentionally programmed into it just to mess with us? And maybe by having it not happen, we were supposed to be tricked into thinking we're not in a computer simulation? Or maybe we were supposed to spaz all out and destroy the world through a self-fulfilling prophecy (so that we would end all of our "existences", and as such we wouldn't be around any longer to progress far enough scientifically to accurately discover that we are all, in fact, living in a computer simulation), but we're too fat and lazy to actually do it anymore, and the program never accounted for McDonald's's cheap and delicious, fattening hamburgers? (McDonald's became self-aware!)
And wouldn't it be the ultimate insult to jocks who hate computer nerds to find out we're all in a computer simulation? Or would that simply indicate that jocks are computer nerds in the next level up of existence? (And if that's true, then how do the nerds compensate there?)
I hope you weren't stoned when you read this. (I mean, that's assuming you bothered to entertain all my fragmented thoughts.) But isn't it amusing that nobody ever seems to have bothered to ask these questions before? (Or were they suppressed so as to keep people from thinking too much about it so everyone would continue to believe what they were told?)
* (There is a theory among physicists that our universe may be only one among many, and that the laws that govern our universe may be unique to this universe, and may not apply anywhere else. This is not theologians saying this: it's scientists. So, with this in mind {I understand it's only a theory, but so is much of what we accept as scientific truth, really}, how can we even begin to comprehend, never mind test for, anything that occurs outside of our own universe, with its clearly defined, although not completely understood {by us, anyway}, set of rules? But scientists are smart and stuff, so I'm sure they'll figure it all out! And if they don't, then surely they will make it so difficult to understand through obtuse scientific gobbledygook and complex mathematics that most of us will never even know the difference enough to challenge them on their findings anyway. That way we won't be able to ask them any embarrassing questions and show them up.)
