Simulations are not what they seem
Our consciousness is very limited. Though a mega-complex mechanism, our scanty brains still cannot cope so that we can adequately imagine the world's complexity even at the closest level to us. Maybe our distant descendants will be able to represent everything that happens much better, even with approximately the same brains. Still, it is unlikely that we will be able to learn about it.
Take the hypothesis that our world is a simulation. And immediately, we often try to imagine something similar to a matrix, some massive, powerful computers simulating us and the universe around us. And if you look closely, we really live in a complete simulation. It is how our consciousness draws for itself the world around us. People, objects, atoms, galaxies - all this simulation made of some received signals (which also part of the simulation, of course) so that the consciousness could somehow draw coherent images.
We, ourselves, i.e., puny humans, mere collections, sets, assembled so that the main characters of our own life DNA structure, with a little more correct order would increase the level of survival. Just to get to a certain next point in the second law of thermodynamics unraveling the world.
Cybernetic mechanisms, with their fantastic energy systems, self-mutilating, self-regulating nodes, unimaginable complexity of control, interaction, and protection - this is not fantasy, this is simple reality, this is us. The molecules that make us up are these mechanisms. We just don't understand how it all works. Or rather, in the last couple of centuries, we've started to look under the hood a little bit, but it's still a mystique and a mystery.
Simulations are not what they seem
Tags: thoughts, simulation
