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    Exclamation An Answer to Wave/Particle Duality?

    Just one last thing. I know I've already posted three articles on Matrix theories but they live and breath together. I couldn't post one without the other. So here's an exerpt from this particular article at http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html:

    "Building a Matrix
    Creating comprehensive Matrices that are indistinguishable from non-simulated reality is, of course, far beyond our current technological capability. Even so, we can estimate the computational requirements for creating such virtual realities.
    Rather than confining the construction project to creating a virtual reality simulation, we can consider a more ambitious project that also involves the creation of the inhabitants of the Matrix. Instead of having pink gooey pods with biological humans floating in them being fed sensory input from a simulated reality, it would be more efficient to replace the brains with simulations of brains. Many philosophers and cognitive scientists believe that such brain-simulations would be conscious, provided the simulation was sufficiently detailed and accurate.
    Estimates of the human brain’s computational power have been given and estimates of the computational power that would be available to a technologically mature civilization can also been made. While these estimates are very approximate, it turns out that even when allowing for a large margin of error, the computational resources of a mature civilization would suffice to create very many Matrices. Even a single planetary-sized computer, constructed with advanced molecular nanotechnology, could simulate the entire mental history of humankind by using less than one millionth of its computing power for one second; and this presupposes only already known computational mechanisms and engineering principles. A single civilization may eventually build millions of such computers. We can conclude that a technologically mature civilization would have enough computing power such that even if it devoted but a tiny fraction of it to creating Matrices, there would soon be many more simulated people than there were people living in the original history of that civilization.
    These simulations would not have to be perfect. They would only have to be good enough to fool its inhabitants. It would not be necessary to simulate every object down to the subatomic level (something that would definitely be infeasible). If the book you are holding in your hands is a simulated book, the simulation would only need to include its visual appearance, its weight and texture, and a few other macroscopic properties, because you have no way of knowing what its individual atoms are doing at this moment. If you were to study the book more carefully, for example by examining it under a powerful microscope, additional details of the simulation could be filled in as needed. Objects that nobody is perceiving could have an even more compressed representation. Such simplifications would dramatically reduce the computational requirements...."


    O.k., so now I ask, what about wave/particle duality? Could it be, that the electron 'is'nt there' until we measure it because it has no need to be simulated until it's observed? A profound thought, I think. Just trying to spark a debate or at least an interested conversation!

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    Tesla

    PS See also:

    http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html

    http://www.toequest.com/forum/quantum-physics/1880-multiverse-theory-virtual-reality-matrix.html

    http://www.toequest.com/forum/intelligent-design/1879-matrix-simulation-argument.html



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    Cool Re: An Answer to Wave/Particle Duality?

    Tesla, I think this is one of the leg's of Heisenberg's theory, no? But also, even if the electron isn't 'there' (then where? or when?) until we measure it, what could explain it's appearance in two different forms of organization, waves v. particles and how would it 'know' to appear as one and not the other?
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    Smile Re: An Answer to Wave/Particle Duality?

    Great thread Tesla,when is an idea informed of its shape?
    When does intention,engage itself into action?
    All these differing names,are really one thing,intention made form=all?

    kind regards michael.
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    reveal herself?


 

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