On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 23:36:27 UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:

Oh look, Western philosophers copying more of Eastern theories and pretending they came up with it all on their own.

After stealing all of Eastern science without credit, it seems they have focussed their gaze on philosophies.

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https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/new-hypothesis-argues-the-universe-simulates-itself-into-existence?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence

A physics paper proposes neither you nor the world around you are real.

Paul Ratner
26 April, 2020

A new hypothesis says the universe self-simulates itself in a
"strange loop".
A paper from the Quantum Gravity Research institute proposes there
is an underlying panconsciousness.
The work looks to unify insight from quantum mechanics with a non-materialistic perspective.

How real are you? What if everything you are, everything you know, all
the people in your life as well as all the events were not physically
there but just a very elaborate simulation? Philosopher Nick Bostrom famously considered this in his seminal paper "Are you living in a
computer simulation?," where he proposed that all of our existence may
be just a product of very sophisticated computer simulations ran by
advanced beings whose real nature we may never be able to know. Now a
new theory has come along that takes it a step further – what if there
are no advanced beings either and everything in "reality" is a self-simulation that generates itself from pure thought?

The physical universe is a "strange loop" says the new paper titled "The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" from the team at the Quantum Gravity Research, a Los Angeles-based theoretical physics institute founded by the scientist and entrepreneur Klee Irwin.
They take Bostrom's simulation hypothesis, which maintains that all of reality is an extremely detailed computer program, and ask, rather than relying on advanced lifeforms to create the amazing technology necessary
to compose everything within our world, isn't it more efficient to
propose that the universe itself is a "mental self-simulation"? They tie this idea to quantum mechanics, seeing the universe as one of many
possible quantum gravity models.

One important aspect that differentiates this view relates to the fact
that Bostrom's original hypothesis is materialistic, seeing the universe
as inherently physical. To Bostrom, we could simply be part of an
ancestor simulation, engineered by posthumans. Even the process of
evolution itself could just be a mechanism by which the future beings
are testing countless processes, purposefully moving humans through
levels of biological and technological growth. In this way they also generate the supposed information or history of our world. Ultimately,
we wouldn't know the difference.

But where does the physical reality that would generate the simulations comes from, wonder the researchers? Their hypothesis takes a non-materialistic approach, saying that everything is information
expressed as thought. As such, the universe "self-actualizes" itself
into existence, relying on underlying algorithms and a rule they call
"the principle of efficient language."

Under this proposal, the entire simulation of everything in existence is just one "grand thought." How would the simulation itself be originated?
It was always there, say the researchers, explaining the concept of "timeless emergentism." According to this idea, time isn't there at all. Instead, the all-encompassing thought that is our reality offers a
nested semblance of a hierarchical order, full of "sub-thoughts" that
reach all the way down the rabbit hole towards the base mathematics and fundamental particles. This is also where the rule of efficient language comes in, suggesting that humans themselves are such "emergent
sub-thoughts" and they experience and find meaning in the world through other sub-thoughts (called "code-steps or actions") in the most
economical fashion.

In correspondence with Big Think, physicist David Chester elaborated:
"While many scientists presume materialism to be true, we believe that quantum mechanics may provide hints that our reality is a mental
construct. Recent advances in quantum gravity, such as seeing spacetime emergent via a hologram, also is a hint that spacetime is not
fundamental. This is also compatible with ancient Hermetic and Indian philosophy. In a sense, the mental construct of reality creates
spacetime to efficiently understand itself by creating a network of subconscious entities that can interact and explore the totality of possibilities."

The scientists link their hypothesis to panpsychism, which sees
everything as thought or consciousness. The authors think that their "panpsychic self-simulation model" can even explain the origin of an overarching panconsciousness at the foundational level of the
simulations, which "self-actualizes itself in a strange loop via self-simulation." This panconsciousness also has free will and its
various nested levels essentially have the ability to select what code
to actualize, while making syntax choices. The goal of this
consciousness? To generate meaning or information.

If all of this is hard to grasp, the authors offer another interesting
idea that may link your everyday experience to these philosophical considerations. Think of your dreams as your own personal
self-simulations, postulates the team. While they are rather primitive
(by super-intelligent future AI standards), dreams tend to provide
better resolution than current computer modeling and are a great example
of the evolution of the human mind. As the scientists write, "What is
most remarkable is the ultra-high-fidelity resolution of these
mind-based simulations and the accuracy of the physics therein." They
point especially to lucid dreams, where the dreamer is aware of being in
a dream, as instances of very accurate simulations created by your mind
that may be impossible to distinguish from any other reality. To that
end, now that you're sitting here reading this article, how do you
really know you're not in a dream? The experience seems very high in resolution but so do some dreams. It's not too much of a reach to
imagine that an extremely powerful computer that we may be able to make
in not-too-distant future could duplicate this level of detail.

The team also proposes that in the coming years we will be able to
create designer consciousnesses for ourselves as advancements in gene editing could allow us to make our own mind-simulations much more
powerful. We may also see minds emerging that do not require matter at all.

While some of these ideas are certainly controversial in the mainstream science circles, Klee and his team respond that "We must critically
think about consciousness and certain aspects of philosophy that are uncomfortable subjects to some scientists."

This is crackpot pseudoscience.
See https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Klee_Irwin
and https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/7kbmdg/whats_the_story_behind_quantum_gravity_research/

There's only one associated guy who's theoretical work I can take seriously - Carlos Perelman. i don't recognise any of the other names.

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