DO We Live Inside A Simulation?

February 6, 2023

 

Two interesting responses to the above:

Elon Musk on the subject, four years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKRuI2zHp0&ab_channel=ElonMuskViralVideos

Basically, he says that video games are becoming so sophisticated that sooner or later they will be indistinguishable from reality. In which case, what is “reality”? And, he seems to claim, the end-game is civilization will become extinct. (I presume he means because humans always get technological, which sooner or later “goes nuclear” in one way or another.)

What are the building blocks of any simulation? Data, tiny dots added/networked together — “compounded”— in more and more sophisticated ways. In other words, his world view is atomistic.

Which means: that old adage, “the map is not the territory” still makes sense. No matter how much a detailed map may appear to match the territory it aims/pretends to “cover,” it is still composed of finite points that we assume are identical to parts/elements of the whole (the territory); these parts/elements we’ve “identified” are themselves based on deeper assumptions, of which we can never reach the bottom! The territory is always larger, deeper, fuller, than any map. Just as:

There’s always a deeper set of assumptions

below those we are inventing/using

now.

There is no bottom.

We are always constructing with our minds

from the void.

Nevertheless, DO we live in a simulation?

I have no idea!

And, does it matter?

 

 

 

ASK LAURA BRUNO: new youtube channel!

February 6, 2023

 

My dear friend from afar — I came across her some years ago as a sister blogger (or should I say daughter blogger, given that she is 30 years younger), and ever since we’ve had each other’s back; we’ve traveled to visit each other in person, once, and meanwhile, carry on virtually. Yes, my deeply intuitive, quick learning, extremely articulate, and fairly-new-minted astrologer, Laura Bruno, has finally decided to allow the crowded tenth house of her astrological chart that lights up a massive grand trine in air to guide her life into some kind of prominence. Duh!

(She can thank slow-moving, inexorably transformative Pluto for this development, and she knows it! Death to an old way of life, Rebirth into this new, and utterly authentic for her, aliveness that will nourish many many others ).

ASK LAURA BRUNO is her new youtube channel.

I especially enjoyed her “overview” of Pluto in Aquarius, coming right up, late March! Likewise Saturn in Pisces, also coming right up, early March. (These were the first two videos she did, and was stunned to find out how easy and fun the experience.)

And do tune in to how she discovered astrology: perhaps the most round-about, uncanny story you’ve ever come across.