I just assume we are missing the senses needed to fully understand the universe and we might never understand it.That's an interesting proposition. There easily could be other dimensions and phenomena we just can't detect through technical means.
It appears to 'make sense' because it references things we can comprehend (computer simulation).IDK even before computers were a thing there were talks about it, just in different terms. Like the Allegory of the Cave.
But the truth may well be too weird for us to imagine.
That's an interesting proposition. There easily could be other dimensions and phenomena we just can't detect through technical means.I mean, we evolved to hunt, gather, and avoid being eaten by sabretooth tigers (or whatever).
IDK even before computers were a thing there were talks about it, just in different terms. Like the Allegory of the Cave.Which used references accessible at the time.
It's about as useless as theories comeI don't know if that's entirely true. If simulation theory is true then there's the possibility of connecting to or contacting the higher level reality somehow. But I don't think we have the means to identify those connection points.
I just assume we are missing the senses needed to fully understand the universe and we might never understand it.
I've always kinda liked the idea that we actually are "higher dimensional" beings or something along those lines, it's just that this particular portion of ourselves is limited to 3D perception. Like our fingertips can't see, but our brain is the "higher dimensional" part that can connect the various inputs and make sense of them.Holy shit
So maybe our body/mind here is like the fingertips of some 11-dimensional entity. And they use "us" to probe 3-dimensional space much like we use our hands to feel subtle differences in surfaces. We wouldn't really be aware of them any more than we would consider our fingers to be aware of us. Fractal-like repetition on different scales seems to be a recurring thing in the universe, too.
Are there any books, fiction or non, that explore this? First time hearing about it
Reality is probably simply more simple than we wish it to ne in our fantasies; am infinitive amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of typewriters and near infinite time doesn't just create the works of Shakespeare, they create Shakespeare himself.It was this theory that made me question a few things in the bible. First evidence was the burning bush. How its described sounds like a hologram doesnt it. You then look at the rest. What we think were angels were just overwatchers. Davids giant was a old test bed they decided would be a good test for him. Think of it like a RPG
Or less artistically, particles, genes, happenstance. This doesn't mean reality is mundane; to me it makes it all the more amazing and special.
That said, I do have it as a new goal to read various religious books including the Bible now and various translations as well. I think it will be quite fascinating.
I mean, we evolved to hunt, gather, and avoid being eaten by sabretooth tigers (or whatever).I mean there's plenty of reason to suppose that. Basic physics follows pretty simple rules. Classical electricity, magnetism and gravity all follow only slightly more complicated inverse square and net flux = 0 rules. It's only when we get to atomic and smaller scales where the universe gets weird, and even there we've figured out math that describe it, even if it's currently too complicated to solve computationally.
There's no reason to suppose we have the capacity to understand the universe. It's pretty amazing that we've come as far as we have.
I've always kinda liked the idea that we actually are "higher dimensional" beings or something along those lines, it's just that this particular portion of ourselves is limited to 3D perception. Like our fingertips can't see, but our brain is the "higher dimensional" part that can connect the various inputs and make sense of them.
So maybe our body/mind here is like the fingertips of some 11-dimensional entity. And they use "us" to probe 3-dimensional space much like we use our hands to feel subtle differences in surfaces. We wouldn't really be aware of them any more than we would consider our fingers to be aware of us. Fractal-like repetition on different scales seems to be a recurring thing in the universe, too.