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The Infographics Show, Science Proves You Don't Exist

Science Proves You Don't Exist

You don't exist, and science is pretty confident of that fact.

Well, it would be unfair to say that you don't exist, you probably do. Just not in the way that

you think you do. Instead of flesh and body, you're likely nothing more than electrons on a

circuit board, your consciousness a long string of code being run by a supercomputer somewhere.

You believe you're real because you've been programmed to think you're real- or perhaps,

if you're really lucky, you actually are real, and it's the rest of the world that's fake. But wait,

let's back up a second because we can already feel some of our audience's heads spinning.

Simulation theory is exactly what it sounds like: our universe, and perhaps our very selves,

is nothing more than a simulation being run by an advanced computer of some sort.

You might be tempted to turn to computer engineers for an answer to the simulation theory question,

but it turns out that spiritual gurus may have a better grip on the ultimate

answer than a scientist or engineer. After all,

spiritual gurus dedicate themselves to the study and development of the spiritual side of life,

seeking to understand the fundamental question of why do we exist at all?

The problem with turning to scientists for an answer on simulation theory is simply put,

that any evidence they can discover to disprove the theory could itself be simulated. Perhaps

religion and spiritualism can give us a better perspective on the question if we are real or not,

and religion has some very uncomfortable clues that we might in fact be simulated.

Eastern religions have a staggering amount of evidence supporting that we in fact live in a

simulation. One of the Buddha's most well known teachings is as follows:

All phenomena are like reflections appearing in a very clear mirror,

devoid of inherent existence. In essence, this perfectly describes any video game- everything

you see in a video game may look real, and have a real effect on a character inside the video game,

but it is all ultimately not real to any observer outside of the video game itself.

If you log into Fortnite and someone shoots directly at you, the real you

behind the screen is completely unharmed by the digital bullets being shot in your direction.

Even more disturbing is the ultimate goal of Buddhism- Nirvana. Nirvana is the ultimate

spiritual goal of a Buddhist practitioner, and only achieved by rising above the “three poisons”,

greed, aversion, and ignorance. Once you accomplish that task, you are rewarded by

being freed from the constant cycle of rebirth, where you live and die a series of lives meant to

act as teaching experiences. Achieving nirvana leads to parinirvana, or the final nirvana, an

afterlife for souls that have been freed from the Hindu and Buddhist cycle of rebirth. What happens

here is indescribable, and the human brain cannot understand it so there is nothing known about it.

At a glance, Buddhism's nirvana seems much like the carrot-and-stick core ideology of

any religion- do good and be rewarded with good, do bad and get the stick

by being forced to live yet another life in our imperfect world. Yet for a computer gamer,

the entire concept of nirvana has a disturbingly 'quest-like' feature reminiscent of any computer

game. It even comes with a respawn feature, just like you would respawn in a game over and over

again until you succeed by overcoming the obstacle in front of you. Imagine a game of Super Mario,

with Mario respawning over and over in front of the bottomless pit he can't

quite get the hang of jumping over- until he does one day and continues on his way.

Buddhism's nirvana seems to point at one of several possibilities for why we even live

in a simulation, which we'll get to soon- but first, what do other religions say?

In the Hindu tradition life is believed to be nothing more than a dream of Vishnu,

and every single human being, along with all of their history, triumphs,

and defeats, nothing more than a miniscule portion of the fabric making up that dream.

When Vishnu awakens, we will cease to exist, no different than if we

were being simulated by a computer and the simulation ended, or the computer shut off.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, whom all share the same God, don't have as obvious links to

the possibility of the universe being simulated, but they do share a belief in a monotheistic God

who created us to have a personal relationship with him directly. The concept of a single God

in control of the entire universe is no different than the concept of a super intelligent AI

creating a simulated universe, and then populating it with simulated life.

Religion, especially eastern religion,

seems to have strong links to simulation hypothesis, but what does science say?

Well, the most important thing to remember is that if our simulators wished to hide the fact that we

were living in a simulation from us, then we would never be able to find out as any evidence proving

it could be simply edited, and any evidence disproving it could be itself simulated.

Think back on the last time you played a single player video game and engaged in the questionable

behavior of 'save scumming', or reloading a previous save so you could get a beneficial,

or the best, outcome. Your character has in effect witnessed the effects of any number of possible

outcomes, but you literally reversed time for that character and he or she is now only aware of one

outcome- the one you chose for it. So too might our simulators simply reload a previous save state

and then steer us away from the earth shattering discovery that we are in fact, simulations.

But if everything can be edited and we can't even trust our own observations or deductions,

can there ever be any evidence that we live in a simulation? Well, yes,

possibly. One piece of evidence, and it's definitely not good if you like

to think you are a real flesh and blood person, comes from simple probability.

We have observed our own universe and deduced that it largely makes sense. Sure, there's some

things that still bother scientists, but by and large, the universe seems to be understandable,

and the processes by which it operates are themselves also understandable. That would

seem to indicate then that there is a greater probability that our simulated universe is a very

close approximation of the real universe. After all, you're more likely to create a

simulation using values for the universe that you already know work- never underestimate the

probabilistic power of complacency driving people to the path of least resistance.

This means that the real universe is likely as large as ours, which in turn means that it could

potentially be inhabited by numerous highly advanced species- yet no matter how many real,

unsimulated beings inhabited the real universe, the ability to condense information onto a

computer means that by sheer numbers alone, the number of simulated minds are inevitably

exponentially greater than non-simulated minds. That gives you pretty crap odds of being real.

But this is a rather imperfect argument, as it relies on a number of values that we simply can't

ever have precise data on. The real universe might in fact be tiny compared to our simulated

universe- our vast, seemingly infinite universe could be nothing more than a fantasy dreamt up by

a super intelligent species stuck in a boring, mundane universe that's no bigger than a few

solar systems. Consider the popularity of movies, books, and video games set in exciting worlds that

are vastly different than our boring, mundane earth. Intelligence seems to yearn for novelty,

and is easily bored by its own everyday reality- so the real argument here might

be that if our universe is simulated, then the real universe is far more mundane than ours.

Physics might offer better clues to the true nature of our universe. In a computer simulation,

what you can see is limited by the resolution of the program, and if you look close enough

you discover the individual pixels that make up each image. In our world, atoms share very similar

properties with pixels, as we know that atoms make up everything in our material world. Yet,

atoms themselves are made up of even smaller particles known as elementary particles such

as gluons and quarks, with the latter being the smallest particle we know of.

If our universe is simulated, then why add unnecessary complexity by increasing the

resolution of our simulation down to the level of quarks? Why not change the fundamentals of

radioactive decay so that particles smaller than atoms- which we believed for a long time were

the building blocks of all existence- didn't need up quarks and down quarks to operate? It

seems like adding even smaller fundamental particles is simply adding complexity,

and in a simulation this means added computational power that seems to be completely unnecessary.

Unless our simulators exist in a universe with unlimited energy, it's extremely dubious that

they would run simulations requiring so much energy input to power the massive

amounts of computation needed to simulate every single quark in our fake universe.

Then there's the consideration of the massive amounts of waste heat generated

by the supercomputers crunching such incredible amounts of numbers to make our universe work.

It's famously said that in order to be able to simulate the entire

universe- every single particle within it- you would need a computer as big,

or bigger than the universe, which also seems to indicate that simulation theory

is dead on arrival. Yet modern video games offer clues to getting around this huge problem.

When you play a video game, your computer only animates the part of the world you are currently

looking at. After all, there's no sense in wasting the computing power to animate

whatever is going on behind you. Instead, those details are stripped down to the most

bare amounts of information needed to keep tabs on the parts of the world you aren't looking at,

and when you move the camera around the computer then simulates the new viewpoint

complete with graphical representations for what was just seconds ago, nothing more than data.

You've all experienced what happens when a video game isn't coded optimally to do this,

or when your computer is getting old and slow, and games you play stutter

or hang often as the computer struggles to turn data into graphical representations.

So if our universe is simulated, one way to get around having to constantly track every single

molecule, atom, and quark in existence, is to simply not load those objects until needed-

like when scientists start cracking atoms open to discover what lies inside of them. Not only

would a simulation rarely need to devote the computing power to simulate atoms or quarks,

because we are after all rarely ever interacting with them in a direct way, but it could

completely ignore these elements when they aren't necessary. Until the invention of the microscope,

our simulation would have had no need to simulate every single individual cell, bacteria, or virus,

as we were completely oblivious to their existence and had no way of detecting them.

Right now our simulation doesn't need to simulate the weather systems of every single planet in

the universe, it only needs to run localized simulations in the very, very small areas of

our own solar system we've explored, like a few dozen miles around our Mars rovers for example.

In essence, it's the classic question of does a tree falling in a forest make any noise if nobody

is around to hear it- only in this case the tree makes no noise, and doesn't even fall, because

there's no need to waste computer power simulating any of that if nobody is around to hear or see it.

Therefore, you wouldn't need a computer the size of the universe to simulate the universe itself,

you would only need a computer with enough computing power to simulate the very small

parts of the universe being directly observed. But there is a fundamental problem with this too,

because as our technology develops, and as humanity expands into the stars, both our

observations of, and interactions with, greater and greater parts of the universe will increase,

requiring more and more computing power to keep the simulation running smoothly.

We will interact more and more with fundamental particles too, not just in research but through

application of our technology, which will mean our simulation will need to begin

accurately simulating exponentially greater and greater amounts of data.

And one single slip-up on the computer's part could give the whole thing away.

Which leaves us with a frightening possibility- what if through our

own technological expansion and growth throughout the universe as a species,

we bring about our demise by simply crashing the program we've been running on this whole time?

Of course, our simulators could simply pause the simulation as we near this point

and install new hardware to accommodate our growth. Or they could just end it,

instantly erasing you from existence, and start over from scratch.

Perhaps then our greatest piece of evidence for why we are not living in a simulation is simply

thus: it would be the single most immoral act in history to even create such a simulation in the

first place. After all, once you have reached the technological sophistication to simulate a mind,

that mind is itself no different than a 'real', biological one- it simply runs on

silicon rather than flesh and blood. Even our allegedly real brains operate on electricity,

with our flesh and blood nothing more than the materials the hardware is made of.

Because a simulated mind is no different than a real mind, then creating a simulated being is

in effect creating a living being, who exists in your universe in the form of electrons on

silicon chips. You would simply be tricking that mind into believing it existed in a

different universe than it really does, and you would be allowing it to grow,

find a mate, breed, and create more simulated minds. Those minds would in turn also reproduce,

creating even more simulated minds, so on and so on for as long as the simulation ran.

In time you would face an inevitable choice: when do you turn the simulation off and commit

the greatest genocide in the universe's history- real or fake. You would have to turn it off too,

because eventually you would run out of materials to build the hardware your computer needs

to continuously expand its computing power in order to keep up with the exponentially

increasing amount of simulated minds, or you would run out of energy to power your

computer. Eventually even your own real universe would end, and along with it the

trillions of simulated minds you had been nurturing inside your simulated universe,

making you the greatest mass murderer in any history- simulated or real.

Then of course, there's always the chance of a stray accident shutting down your simulation,

or destroying your computer, no different than the millions of accidents that happen

every day in our universe and damage sensitive electronics. Only in your case,

that accident just wiped out billions of simulated minds- maybe even more depending

on how long you allowed the simulation to run. Once more, you have become the

greatest mass murderer in history, because you created the simulation in the first place.

Such an act is so unthinkably immoral,

that perhaps it is the greatest evidence for why our universe is in fact not simulated.

Still yearning to find a place in the world? Check out Why Is There

A Universe? Or check out this other video instead!

Science Proves You Don't Exist Die Wissenschaft beweist, dass du nicht existierst La ciencia demuestra que no existes La scienza dimostra che non esistete A ciência prova que não existes Наука доказывает, что вы не существуете 科学证明你不存在 科學證明你不存在

You don't exist, and science is  pretty confident of that fact.

Well, it would be unfair to say that you don't  exist, you probably do. Just not in the way that

you think you do. Instead of flesh and body,  you're likely nothing more than electrons on a ||||||flesh||||||||||

circuit board, your consciousness a long string  of code being run by a supercomputer somewhere. |||consciousness|||code||||||||

You believe you're real because you've been  programmed to think you're real- or perhaps,

if you're really lucky, you actually are real, and  it's the rest of the world that's fake. But wait,

let's back up a second because we can already  feel some of our audience's heads spinning. |||||||||||||audience||

Simulation theory is exactly what it sounds  like: our universe, and perhaps our very selves, simulation||||||||||||||identities

is nothing more than a simulation being  run by an advanced computer of some sort.

You might be tempted to turn to computer engineers  for an answer to the simulation theory question, |||enticed|||||||||||||

but it turns out that spiritual gurus  may have a better grip on the ultimate |||||metaphysical|gurus|||||understanding control insight|||final truth aber es stellt sich heraus, dass spirituelle Gurus das Ultimative besser im Griff haben

answer than a scientist or engineer. After all,

spiritual gurus dedicate themselves to the study  and development of the spiritual side of life, spiritual matters|spiritual teachers||||||||||||| spirituelle Gurus widmen sich dem Studium und der Entwicklung der spirituellen Seite des Lebens,

seeking to understand the fundamental  question of why do we exist at all?

The problem with turning to scientists for  an answer on simulation theory is simply put, |||turning to|||||||||||

that any evidence they can discover to disprove  the theory could itself be simulated. Perhaps

religion and spiritualism can give us a better  perspective on the question if we are real or not, ||spiritual practices|||||||||||||||

and religion has some very uncomfortable  clues that we might in fact be simulated.

Eastern religions have a staggering amount of  evidence supporting that we in fact live in a |Eastern religions|||astonishing|||||||||||

simulation. One of the Buddha's most  well known teachings is as follows:

All phenomena are like reflections  appearing in a very clear mirror, |events||||||||| Alle Phänomene sind wie Reflexionen, die in einem sehr klaren Spiegel erscheinen,

devoid of inherent existence. In essence, this  perfectly describes any video game- everything lacking||essential|existence||||||||| ohne inhärente Existenz. Im Wesentlichen beschreibt dies perfekt jedes Videospiel – alles

you see in a video game may look real, and have a  real effect on a character inside the video game, Sie in einem Videospiel sehen, kann echt aussehen und einen echten Effekt auf einen Charakter im Videospiel haben.

but it is all ultimately not real to any  observer outside of the video game itself. ||||最终地||||||||||| aber letztendlich ist das alles für keinen Beobachter außerhalb des Videospiels selbst real.

If you log into Fortnite and someone  shoots directly at you, the real you |||||||fires at||||||

behind the screen is completely unharmed by the  digital bullets being shot in your direction.

Even more disturbing is the ultimate goal of  Buddhism- Nirvana. Nirvana is the ultimate Noch beunruhigender ist das ultimative Ziel des Buddhismus – Nirvana. Nirvana ist das Ultimative

spiritual goal of a Buddhist practitioner, and  only achieved by rising above the “three poisons”, spirituelles Ziel eines buddhistischen Praktizierenden und nur erreicht, indem man sich über die „drei Gifte“ erhebt,

greed, aversion, and ignorance. Once you  accomplish that task, you are rewarded by avarice|dislike||lack of knowledge||||||||| Gier, Abneigung und Ignoranz. Sobald Sie diese Aufgabe erfüllt haben, werden Sie belohnt mit

being freed from the constant cycle of rebirth,  where you live and die a series of lives meant to |liberated||||||||||||||||| von dem ständigen Kreislauf der Wiedergeburt befreit zu sein, in dem du eine Reihe von Leben lebst und stirbst, die dazu bestimmt sind

act as teaching experiences. Achieving nirvana  leads to parinirvana, or the final nirvana, an |||||ultimate liberation|||final liberation||||ultimate enlightenment| fungeren als leerervaringen. Het bereiken van nirvana leidt tot parinirvana, of het laatste nirvana, een

afterlife for souls that have been freed from the  Hindu and Buddhist cycle of rebirth. What happens ||||||Liberated||||||||||

here is indescribable, and the human brain cannot  understand it so there is nothing known about it. ||inexpressible|||||||||||||| hier ist unbeschreiblich, und das menschliche Gehirn kann es nicht verstehen, also ist nichts darüber bekannt.

At a glance, Buddhism's nirvana seems much  like the carrot-and-stick core ideology of Auf den ersten Blick scheint das Nirvana des Buddhismus der Karotten-und-Peitsche-Kernideologie von sehr ähnlich zu sein

any religion- do good and be rewarded  with good, do bad and get the stick jede Religion – tue Gutes und werde mit Gutem belohnt, tue Böses und nimm den Stock

by being forced to live yet another life in  our imperfect world. Yet for a computer gamer, ||||||||||flawed|||||| indem wir gezwungen sind, ein weiteres Leben in unserer unvollkommenen Welt zu führen. Doch für einen Computerspieler

the entire concept of nirvana has a disturbingly  'quest-like' feature reminiscent of any computer |||||||||||evocative of||| Das gesamte Konzept von Nirvana hat eine beunruhigende "questähnliche" Funktion, die an jeden Computer erinnert

game. It even comes with a respawn feature, just  like you would respawn in a game over and over ||||||reappear in game|||||||||||| Spiel. Es kommt sogar mit einer Respawn-Funktion, genau wie Sie in einem Spiel immer wieder respawnen würden spel. Het wordt zelfs geleverd met een respawn-functie, net zoals je in een game keer op keer zou respawnen

again until you succeed by overcoming the obstacle  in front of you. Imagine a game of Super Mario,

with Mario respawning over and over in  front of the bottomless pit he can't ||reappearing||||||||endless abyss||| mit Mario, der immer wieder vor dem bodenlosen Abgrund respawnt, kann er nicht

quite get the hang of jumping over- until  he does one day and continues on his way. kann ziemlich schnell den Dreh raus springen - bis er es eines Tages tut und seinen Weg fortsetzt.

Buddhism's nirvana seems to point at one of  several possibilities for why we even live

in a simulation, which we'll get to soon-  but first, what do other religions say? in einer Simulation, zu der wir gleich kommen werden - aber zuerst, was sagen andere Religionen?

In the Hindu tradition life is believed  to be nothing more than a dream of Vishnu, |||custom or practice||||||||||||Vishnu

and every single human being, along  with all of their history, triumphs, |||||||||||victories und jeder einzelne Mensch mit all seiner Geschichte triumphiert,

and defeats, nothing more than a miniscule  portion of the fabric making up that dream. ||||||tiny||||structure of the dream|||| und Niederlagen, nichts weiter als ein winziger Teil des Stoffes, aus dem dieser Traum besteht.

When Vishnu awakens, we will cease  to exist, no different than if we |||||stop|||||||

were being simulated by a computer and the  simulation ended, or the computer shut off.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, whom all share  the same God, don't have as obvious links to |Jewish faith||Islamic faith||||||||||||

the possibility of the universe being simulated,  but they do share a belief in a monotheistic God |||||||||||||||single deity belief|

who created us to have a personal relationship  with him directly. The concept of a single God ||||||||||Without intermediaries||||||

in control of the entire universe is no different  than the concept of a super intelligent AI

creating a simulated universe, and  then populating it with simulated life. ||||||filling with life||||

Religion, especially eastern religion,

seems to have strong links to simulation  hypothesis, but what does science say?

Well, the most important thing to remember is that  if our simulators wished to hide the fact that we Das Wichtigste ist, sich daran zu erinnern, wenn unsere Simulatoren die Tatsache verbergen wollten, dass wir

were living in a simulation from us, then we would  never be able to find out as any evidence proving in einer Simulation von uns leben, dann könnten wir das nie als Beweise herausfinden

it could be simply edited, and any evidence  disproving it could be itself simulated. es könnte einfach bearbeitet werden, und alle Beweise, die es widerlegen, könnten selbst simuliert werden.

Think back on the last time you played a single  player video game and engaged in the questionable |||||||||||||||||dubious actions Denken Sie an das letzte Mal zurück, als Sie ein Einzelspieler-Videospiel gespielt und sich mit dem Fragwürdigen beschäftigt haben

behavior of 'save scumming', or reloading a  previous save so you could get a beneficial, |||Save manipulation technique||||||||||| Verhalten von "Save Scumming" oder das erneute Laden eines vorherigen Speichers, um einen vorteilhaften,

or the best, outcome. Your character has in effect  witnessed the effects of any number of possible oder das beste Ergebnis. Dein Charakter hat tatsächlich die Auswirkungen vieler möglicher Möglichkeiten erlebt

outcomes, but you literally reversed time for that  character and he or she is now only aware of one но вы буквально повернули время вспять для этого персонажа, и теперь он или она знает только об одном

outcome- the one you chose for it. So too might  our simulators simply reload a previous save state

and then steer us away from the earth shattering  discovery that we are in fact, simulations. ||guide||||||earth-shattering||||||| und lenken uns dann von der welterschütternden Entdeckung ab, dass wir in Wirklichkeit Simulationen sind.

But if everything can be edited and we can't  even trust our own observations or deductions, |||||||||||||||logical conclusions

can there ever be any evidence that  we live in a simulation? Well, yes,

possibly. One piece of evidence, and  it's definitely not good if you like möglicherweise. Ein Beweis, und es ist definitiv nicht gut, wenn Sie so wollen

to think you are a real flesh and blood  person, comes from simple probability. zu glauben, dass Sie ein echter Mensch aus Fleisch und Blut sind, kommt von der einfachen Wahrscheinlichkeit.

We have observed our own universe and deduced  that it largely makes sense. Sure, there's some |||||||inferred|||||||| Wir haben unser eigenes Universum beobachtet und daraus geschlossen, dass es weitgehend Sinn macht. Klar, da ist was

things that still bother scientists, but by and  large, the universe seems to be understandable, Dinge, die Wissenschaftler immer noch stören, aber im Großen und Ganzen scheint das Universum verständlich zu sein,

and the processes by which it operates are  themselves also understandable. That would und die Prozesse, nach denen es funktioniert, sind auch selbst verständlich. Das würde

seem to indicate then that there is a greater  probability that our simulated universe is a very ||suggest||||||||||||||

close approximation of the real universe.  After all, you're more likely to create a |approximation||||||||||||

simulation using values for the universe that  you already know work- never underestimate the

probabilistic power of complacency driving  people to the path of least resistance. likely influence|||self-satisfaction|motivating||||||| Wahrscheinlichkeitskraft der Selbstzufriedenheit, die Menschen auf den Weg des geringsten Widerstands treibt. probabilistische kracht van zelfgenoegzaamheid die mensen naar de weg van de minste weerstand drijft.

This means that the real universe is likely as  large as ours, which in turn means that it could

potentially be inhabited by numerous highly  advanced species- yet no matter how many real, ||occupied|||||||||||

unsimulated beings inhabited the real universe,  the ability to condense information onto a |||||||||compress||| unsimulierte Wesen bewohnten das reale Universum, die Fähigkeit, Informationen auf einem

computer means that by sheer numbers alone,  the number of simulated minds are inevitably ||||purely||||||||| Computer bedeutet, dass die Anzahl der simulierten Geister allein durch die bloße Zahl unvermeidlich ist

exponentially greater than non-simulated minds.  That gives you pretty crap odds of being real. ||||||||||poor|||| exponentiell größer als nicht simulierte Köpfe. Das gibt Ihnen ziemlich beschissene Chancen, echt zu sein.

But this is a rather imperfect argument, as it  relies on a number of values that we simply can't Но это довольно несовершенный аргумент, поскольку он опирается на ряд ценностей, которые мы просто не можем

ever have precise data on. The real universe  might in fact be tiny compared to our simulated

universe- our vast, seemingly infinite universe  could be nothing more than a fantasy dreamt up by ||immense|||||||||||dreamed up by||

a super intelligent species stuck in a boring,  mundane universe that's no bigger than a few ||||||||ordinary|||||||

solar systems. Consider the popularity of movies,  books, and video games set in exciting worlds that Solaranlagen. Bedenken Sie die Popularität von Filmen, Büchern und Videospielen, die in aufregenden Welten angesiedelt sind, die

are vastly different than our boring, mundane  earth. Intelligence seems to yearn for novelty, |||||||||||long for||newness sind ganz anders als unsere langweilige, weltliche Erde. Intelligenz scheint sich nach Neuem zu sehnen, сильно отличаются от нашей скучной, обыденной Земли. Кажется, что интеллект жаждет новизны,

and is easily bored by its own everyday  reality- so the real argument here might

be that if our universe is simulated, then the  real universe is far more mundane than ours. sei, dass, wenn unser Universum simuliert wird, das reale Universum viel banaler ist als unseres.

Physics might offer better clues to the true  nature of our universe. In a computer simulation,

what you can see is limited by the resolution  of the program, and if you look close enough

you discover the individual pixels that make up  each image. In our world, atoms share very similar

properties with pixels, as we know that atoms  make up everything in our material world. Yet, Eigenschaften mit Pixeln, da wir wissen, dass Atome alles in unserer materiellen Welt ausmachen. Noch,

atoms themselves are made up of even smaller  particles known as elementary particles such Atome selbst bestehen aus noch kleineren Teilchen, den sogenannten Elementarteilchen, wie z

as gluons and quarks, with the latter  being the smallest particle we know of. |gluons||quarks|||the smaller one||||||| als Gluonen und Quarks, wobei letzteres das kleinste uns bekannte Teilchen ist. als gluonen en quarks, waarbij de laatste het kleinste deeltje is dat we kennen.

If our universe is simulated, then why add  unnecessary complexity by increasing the

resolution of our simulation down to the level  of quarks? Why not change the fundamentals of Auflösung unserer Simulation bis auf die Ebene von Quarks? Warum nicht die Grundlagen von . ändern

radioactive decay so that particles smaller than  atoms- which we believed for a long time were |Radioactive disintegration|||||||||||||| radioaktiver Zerfall, so dass Teilchen kleiner als Atome sind, von denen wir lange glaubten, dass sie

the building blocks of all existence- didn't  need up quarks and down quarks to operate? It ||components||||||||||||| die Bausteine aller Existenz - brauchten Up-Quarks und Down-Quarks nicht, um zu funktionieren? Es

seems like adding even smaller fundamental  particles is simply adding complexity,

and in a simulation this means added computational  power that seems to be completely unnecessary.

Unless our simulators exist in a universe with  unlimited energy, it's extremely dubious that ||||||||||||doubtful|

they would run simulations requiring so  much energy input to power the massive Sie würden Simulationen durchführen, die so viel Energieaufwand erfordern, um das Massive anzutreiben

amounts of computation needed to simulate  every single quark in our fake universe. jede Menge Rechenaufwand, um jedes einzelne Quark in unserem Scheinuniversum zu simulieren. hoeveelheden rekenkracht die nodig zijn om elke quark in ons nepuniversum te simuleren.

Then there's the consideration of the  massive amounts of waste heat generated |||factor||||||waste heat||

by the supercomputers crunching such incredible  amounts of numbers to make our universe work. |||processing data|||||||||| von den Supercomputern, die so unglaubliche Mengen an Zahlen verarbeiten, um unser Universum zum Laufen zu bringen.

It's famously said that in order  to be able to simulate the entire Es heißt ja bekanntlich, um das Ganze simulieren zu können Известно, что для того, чтобы смоделировать весь

universe- every single particle within  it- you would need a computer as big,

or bigger than the universe, which also  seems to indicate that simulation theory |||||||||suggest|||

is dead on arrival. Yet modern video games  offer clues to getting around this huge problem.

When you play a video game, your computer only  animates the part of the world you are currently |||||||||renders movement||||||||

looking at. After all, there's no sense  in wasting the computing power to animate

whatever is going on behind you. Instead,  those details are stripped down to the most was auch immer hinter dir vorgeht. Stattdessen werden diese Details auf das Äußerste reduziert

bare amounts of information needed to keep tabs  on the parts of the world you aren't looking at, minimal|||||||monitor||||||||||

and when you move the camera around the  computer then simulates the new viewpoint

complete with graphical representations for what  was just seconds ago, nothing more than data. komplett mit grafischen Darstellungen für das, was noch vor wenigen Sekunden war, nichts weiter als Daten.

You've all experienced what happens when a  video game isn't coded optimally to do this, |||||||||||efficiently|||

or when your computer is getting old  and slow, and games you play stutter |||||||||||||lagging performance oder wenn Ihr Computer alt und langsam wird und Spiele, die Sie spielen, stottern

or hang often as the computer struggles to  turn data into graphical representations. oder hängen oft, wenn der Computer sich abmüht, Daten in grafische Darstellungen umzuwandeln.

So if our universe is simulated, one way to get  around having to constantly track every single

molecule, atom, and quark in existence, is to  simply not load those objects until needed-

like when scientists start cracking atoms open  to discover what lies inside of them. Not only ||||splitting||||||are found|||||

would a simulation rarely need to devote the  computing power to simulate atoms or quarks, ||||||allocate||||||||

because we are after all rarely ever interacting  with them in a direct way, but it could

completely ignore these elements when they aren't  necessary. Until the invention of the microscope,

our simulation would have had no need to simulate  every single individual cell, bacteria, or virus,

as we were completely oblivious to their  existence and had no way of detecting them. ||||unaware||||||||||

Right now our simulation doesn't need to simulate  the weather systems of every single planet in

the universe, it only needs to run localized  simulations in the very, very small areas of

our own solar system we've explored, like a few  dozen miles around our Mars rovers for example. ||||||||||||||rovers||

In essence, it's the classic question of does a  tree falling in a forest make any noise if nobody In essence||||||||||||||||||

is around to hear it- only in this case the tree  makes no noise, and doesn't even fall, because

there's no need to waste computer power simulating  any of that if nobody is around to hear or see it.

Therefore, you wouldn't need a computer the size  of the universe to simulate the universe itself,

you would only need a computer with enough  computing power to simulate the very small

parts of the universe being directly observed.  But there is a fundamental problem with this too,

because as our technology develops, and as  humanity expands into the stars, both our

observations of, and interactions with, greater  and greater parts of the universe will increase,

requiring more and more computing power  to keep the simulation running smoothly.

We will interact more and more with fundamental  particles too, not just in research but through

application of our technology, which will  mean our simulation will need to begin

accurately simulating exponentially  greater and greater amounts of data.

And one single slip-up on the computer's  part could give the whole thing away. Und ein einziger Ausrutscher des Computers könnte die ganze Sache verraten.

Which leaves us with a frightening  possibility- what if through our Was uns mit einer beängstigenden Möglichkeit zurücklässt – was wäre, wenn durch unsere

own technological expansion and growth  throughout the universe as a species, ||expansion and growth||||||||

we bring about our demise by simply crashing the  program we've been running on this whole time? ||||downfall|||||||||||| wir unseren Untergang herbeiführen, indem wir einfach das Programm zum Absturz bringen, mit dem wir die ganze Zeit gearbeitet haben?

Of course, our simulators could simply  pause the simulation as we near this point Natürlich könnten unsere Simulatoren die Simulation einfach anhalten, wenn wir uns diesem Punkt nähern

and install new hardware to accommodate  our growth. Or they could just end it,

instantly erasing you from existence,  and start over from scratch. löscht Sie sofort aus der Existenz und fängt von vorne an.

Perhaps then our greatest piece of evidence for  why we are not living in a simulation is simply Vielleicht ist unser größter Beweis dafür, warum wir nicht in einer Simulation leben, einfach

thus: it would be the single most immoral act in  history to even create such a simulation in the |||||||unethical||||||||||| also: Es wäre der unmoralischste Akt der Geschichte, eine solche Simulation überhaupt zu erstellen

first place. After all, once you have reached the  technological sophistication to simulate a mind, ||||||||||complexity||||

that mind is itself no different than a  'real', biological one- it simply runs on dieser Geist selbst ist nicht anders als ein „echter“, biologischer – er läuft einfach weiter

silicon rather than flesh and blood. Even our  allegedly real brains operate on electricity, ||||||||supposedly||||| Silizium statt Fleisch und Blut. Sogar unsere angeblich echten Gehirne arbeiten mit Strom,

with our flesh and blood nothing more than  the materials the hardware is made of. mit unserem Fleisch und Blut nicht mehr als die Materialien, aus denen die Hardware besteht.

Because a simulated mind is no different than  a real mind, then creating a simulated being is

in effect creating a living being, who exists  in your universe in the form of electrons on in der Tat ein Lebewesen erschaffen, das in eurem Universum in Form von Elektronen existiert

silicon chips. You would simply be tricking  that mind into believing it existed in a Silikonchips. Sie würden diesen Geist einfach dazu bringen zu glauben, dass er in a existiert

different universe than it really does,  and you would be allowing it to grow,

find a mate, breed, and create more simulated  minds. Those minds would in turn also reproduce, ||partner|reproduce||||||||||||create offspring Finden Sie einen Partner, züchten Sie und erschaffen Sie weitere simulierte Köpfe. Diese Köpfe würden sich wiederum auch reproduzieren,

creating even more simulated minds, so on  and so on for as long as the simulation ran.

In time you would face an inevitable choice:  when do you turn the simulation off and commit ||||||||||||||||make a decision

the greatest genocide in the universe's history-  real or fake. You would have to turn it off too,

because eventually you would run out of materials  to build the hardware your computer needs

to continuously expand its computing power  in order to keep up with the exponentially ||increase||||||||||| seine Rechenleistung kontinuierlich zu erweitern, um mit dem Exponentiellen Schritt zu halten

increasing amount of simulated minds, or  you would run out of energy to power your

computer. Eventually even your own real  universe would end, and along with it the Computer. Irgendwann würde sogar dein eigenes reales Universum enden, und damit auch das

trillions of simulated minds you had been  nurturing inside your simulated universe, Billionen von simulierten Köpfen, die Sie in Ihrem simulierten Universum gepflegt haben,

making you the greatest mass murderer  in any history- simulated or real.

Then of course, there's always the chance of a  stray accident shutting down your simulation, |||||||||random||||| Dann besteht natürlich immer die Möglichkeit, dass ein streunender Unfall Ihre Simulation herunterfährt,

or destroying your computer, no different  than the millions of accidents that happen oder die Zerstörung Ihres Computers, nicht anders als die Millionen von Unfällen, die passieren

every day in our universe and damage  sensitive electronics. Only in your case, jeden Tag in unserem Universum und beschädigen empfindliche Elektronik. Nur in Ihrem Fall

that accident just wiped out billions of  simulated minds- maybe even more depending

on how long you allowed the simulation  to run. Once more, you have become the

greatest mass murderer in history, because  you created the simulation in the first place. größten Massenmörder der Geschichte, weil Sie die Simulation überhaupt erst erstellt haben.

Such an act is so unthinkably immoral, |||||inconceivably| Eine solche Tat ist so undenkbar unmoralisch,

that perhaps it is the greatest evidence for  why our universe is in fact not simulated. dass es vielleicht der beste Beweis dafür ist, warum unser Universum tatsächlich nicht simuliert ist.

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