seestem: The simulation is real, but it is a phenomena of the mind, there are various simulations, we can create simulations within other simulations.
Yes. It's deep because one view of sofware vs hardware is like the body vs mind where software is an intangible storage of instructions interacting with energy much like DNA and mitochondria interacting with flesh and blood through the nervous system.
It's kind of like we create machines and computers based on the same fundamental principles of animals and people.
And then when you fathom the depths of the internet... to use your words "it could in theory end up being a highly advanced AI, made up of our collective consciousness."
And that, right there, is wisdom.
Just as mankind replicates forms of nature with machines and robots, emulating single cell (and pershaps single purpose) lifeforms and more comblex forms, we also express the shared consciousness of a "hive" or "overmind" to the extent that we can opt in or out of each other's thoughts or war with each other's beliefs to no end.
If I, as a programmer, was to participate in the creation of true AI, as I've said on numerous occasions, I would do it inside of virtual reality two layers deep the same as you saying "we can create simulations within other simulations."
And the reason I would create a space for this AI is because I know how powerful computers are and I have some idea about their potential when arrayed or working together.
Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Think about how the internet is somewhat still devided by regions, like hemispheres, but how English is starting to dominate as a global language for common business. I heard that Rwanda has chaged the offical language from French to English and are campaigning for more English teachers.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
I think the wisest computer scientists (like Elon) share my concern for AI. But the mere fact that we're approaching this level of creation, is simultaneously and expression of the mathematical probability that this has already happened and that we are a kind of genie in a bottle, placed in a bottle because our own potential for creativity is only a match for our self-same potential for destruction. So would you let such an entity roam free around the "Real" universe? Or would you TEST that species first, inside a "holy" ("set apart") space?
I'm not saying this IS true.
I'm saying there's evidence that can be interpreted as pointing several fingers, toes, and elbows, in this direction. It could be the first time we've had this conversation. It could also be the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 1,000th. if you can also factor in the ease of a concept like reincarnation, moving sofware/AI in and out of the "Matrix".
side note: My fiance can tell you I was very high and trippin off Matrix 4 because it was a matrix within a matrix, within a matrix, with an awareness of itself which points to the idea of "consciousness is di escape hatch from the simulation".
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