Lecture week 4 - simulation

Simulation 

simulation could be defined as ; The action of pretending or imitation of a situation or process. 

This simulation are usually found in video games and even other types of media. Video games use it to make it seem like the player is in the video game by copying the looks or physically being in one by putting on a virtual reality headset that copies every movement. Players often like this as they can relate to the character they are playing and makes competing even better. However , there has been many theories in the past years as people start to overthink  these video games and argue that human kind could be one big simulation. This theory has raised questions. Moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum’s Hayden Planetarium, put the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a program on someone else’s hard drive. “I think the likelihood may be very high,” he said. He noted the gap between human and chimpanzee intelligence, despite the fact that we share more than 98 percent of our DNA. Somewhere out there could be a being whose intelligence is that much greater than our own. “We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence,” he said. “If that’s the case, it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just a creation of some other entity for their entertainment.” This might cause panic in peoples lives as they feel like they have no control and that someone could be watching and controlling their major life decisions as a video games. 

• https://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/what-are-the-odds-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/