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If we shape MMORPG to look like Real Life...
Kiyoris
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.....how do we know we ourselves are not living in someone else's Virtual Reality, in some sort of testbed simulation.
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I believe w are,the whole life thing is far too calculated yet incredibly complex to be sheer chance.
Just the planet Earth is crazy when you look at how it all synergizes with itself from the Tropical Rainforest Oxygen to plankton creating oxygen,to heavy water flow at bottom of oceans,artic magnetic field curbing radiation ,the list goes on and on,no way can that all be coincidence.
The sad part about games is that no matter how hard anyone tries you can never recreate a realistic simulation with computer code.The best anyone can do is put tons of rng options into every aspect of game design,but then rng is a a sort of weak way to simulate realism.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Hope this helps in your quest for truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDaSgyi3xE
hmmm, I should probably add to the discussion ...
Well, Kiyoris, when I was a kid my brother and I had a discussion one Saturday afternoon about "perception".
We pretty much came to the conclusion that when I see the color "green" and point to an example, say a leaf, that he may or may not be seeing the same color that I'm seeing but whatever he is seeing is what he normally associates with "green".
So the world around us is in many ways a personal experience and in the end, that is probably the only thing that matters.
A woman at work was saying that our response to art or to "the joy of children" or any number of things is just chemicals and "such" but I had to remind her that in the end it didn't matter because we still gain something from listening to music, the laughter of children, looking at art and just "living".
So maybe we are some construct but in the end it doesn't matter as long as we have some meaning we can hold on to.
to that point, if you haven't seen it you should watch the movie "The 13th floor".
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Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
OP
You might wake up at some point and realize that everything you thought was real life.... is actually a dream.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
I think a computer program could do this, but there are two factors at least I can think of preventing it.
One is that there isn't a computer powerful enough.
Two is that we don't understand how everything works and may never understand it all completely. On a base level the things that make everything up are so tiny. Then you have the need for specific situations for specific things to happen.
I do believe the earth could be chance. If there was an explosion and many different planets and stars were formed from it there is the chance that something could happen on a few of those planets where life as we know it could be supported. Scientists already believe they have located planets that could sustain life for almost an indefinite time. Planets that hover around a white dwarf start that is less powerful than the sun, but the planets are much closer to it. Apparently white dwarfs do not give off the kind of light we see with so the creatures would have to see things in another spectrum.
Of course there are other crazy ideas out there like we are living in a 2D universe that is being translated into 3D. Something complex to do with theories on black wholes and why the universe is expanding so fast instead of slowing down.
We know that the reality we live in is real.
We don't need to be correct to know something. It's enough that we never notice we're wrong.
It's only BETA. Of course they'll fix it before release. :-)
Oh oh oh... and Dark City too.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
I've got red-green color blindness. I have a green car that everyone including the manufacturer tells me is grey. Your green may be my grey. I also occasionally see a green person.
Once upon a time....
Therefore, either reality is the sad, boring rock-bottom truth it seems to be, or whoever created it needs to be fired (and possibly hanged, shot, drawn, quartered, and barbecued). Either way, screw it, I'm logging into my latest escape.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
~Albert Einstein
Well it's a theory. Seems to me to have the same dangerous attraction as religions ("because we can't prove the Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist, its existing must be a very real possibility".) Personally I reserve the highest level of skepticism for ideas which define themselves as not being testable. (And nearly as much skepticism for ideas that are the tiniest step back from that extreme, as in this case.)
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
How do you know it's not provable? There is someone who is trying to do just that, by measuring spacial things and seeing if our reality is built on a 3D grid. I don't recall much more on it, but he's measuring the time it takes for something with a consistent movement to travel in different directions.
A very simply example is to imagine our existence is built on squares so that traveling up/down, or left/right would take less time than traveling diagonally.
Anyone who played UO, a hex based map, knows how running straight up/down, left/right, as opposed to any other direction was visibly faster. Same sort of thing.
Once upon a time....
He said it's impossible to prove that it does not exist.
And I'm saying that if you can prove it does exist, then you remove that possibility.
Once upon a time....
IMHO
Us talking about such things while living on this little pea of a planet.... floating around an insignificant star, which in turn is floating around an insignificant galaxy, which in turn is floating around an insignificant universe, which in turn is floating around who knows what.
Sounds pretty impossible.... doesn't it?
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
Not to mention countless Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and SciFi or horror TV shows and movies (including of course, The Matrix) about this old subject
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