Are we living in a simulation?

The origin of the "simulated reality hypothesis" is in "Plato's cave"

When we think about physical simulations we forget one thing. If the person is living the entire life in that kind of simulation that person believes that the simulation is reality. The idea of this type of simulation is taken from Plato's cave.

If some people are living their entire life in the cave. They think that the cave is an entire world. Those people who live in their cave think. The bizarre shadows that they see on the wall are real creatures. So why those cave people would live in their caves? And don't come out to see are those creatures real? 

The cave offers a safe and protective place. Of course, there can come the army of men. And they will destroy that place easily. But those cave people think that the cave is in the middle of the world. There is nothing that can harm them if they stare at the wall. 

They forget that the armies still exist even if they stare at the wall and deny the reality. The people in the cave are using filtered and selective information. And that thing makes those caves dangerous. Denying the threat doesn't mean that threat does not exist. 

When we think of things like asteroid impacts. They might not seem a big thing. If we compare them with conflicts. But the thing is that without depending on the conflicts on Earth those asteroids still exist. They still can impact our planet. There is still the same probability to impact an asteroid. Even if there is some war going on. 

Are we living in a simulation? If we live in a simulation, why did somebody make that simulation? 

The thing, that fights against that conclusion is the motive for making that kind of complicated simulation. That kind of simulation requires extremely complicated algorithms. And it means that these kinds of things are not made just for fun. 

The major argument against allegations. That we are living in a simulation is the question, why would somebody make the virtual reality, where everybody lives? The thing is that we have the technology to make that kind of virtual reality. But why does somebody wants to close the entire human race to simulation? 

We can connect our cortex to computers and then use robots as external bodies. The BCI (Brain-Controlled Interface) can make brains interact with computers and we cannot see the difference between the real and virtual world. The thing is why would somebody make that thing? 

The movie "Matrix" brought that idea of simulated reality to the knowledge of a great audience. In that movie, the humans are hybridized with computers. The people are living in chambers and the matrix, ultimate virtual reality is making the virtual space where people are living. The idea of the Matrix is that when a human dies in virtual reality the computer will kill that person. 

Why are black cheeps allowed in the Matrix? 

The black cheep is the opponent to the white cheep. The white cheep is the thing that supports the majority. And the black cheep is the actor that mission is to bring discussions and criticism to decisions. Also, the mission of the black cheeps is to bring new and fundamental ideas for the society that is in the Matrix-movies the people who are connected with computers. 

There is a so-called "black cheep" paradox in Matrix-movie. Why those black lambs are allowed in Matrix? The main characters are the persons who are working in the secret underground resistance movement that purpose is to release people from the virtual reality simulation called "Matrix".  But where the computer requires those black cheeps? 

The black cheeps are needed to bring new ideas and new tactics to society. The thing is that the purpose of "black cheeps" is to criticize the majority. The idea is that there would also be another opinion and point of view than the only one that serves the majority. Also, majorities are making mistakes. And those mistakes can be fatal. 

If the majority is ordering to attack against some other state, there is the possibility that the opponent is stronger than expected. So the black cheeps mission is to ask: does anyone see the force of the opponent? Or are everybody just thinking that they can handle that problem? The thing is that when we are blinded to success we cannot see the risks or think the worst possible scenes. And one of them is that the opponent is not uncovering its all cards. 

When we are thinking about simulations we forget one thing. There are at least three types of simulations. 

1) The virtual-reality-based simulations

In those simulations, everything happens in the virtual world of the computer memories. Those kinds of simulations are like games. 

Some of them are made for fun. But some of them are created for training people. Like military commanders and surgeons for their missions. 

X) The mixed or enhanced reality simulations. 

In the most advanced of those simulations, the human senses are connected with robots. That means that the person senses and feels everything that robots see and feel. That allows using remote-controlled robots like remote bodies. 

But those simulations can be the network of simulators. That kind of system can use to simulate things like building sites, military operations, or car driving. In the building-site simulation, everything is needed in building sites, and then the operators can test things like cars how they fit in those simulations. 

2) Real-life simulations. 

The most well-known of those simulations are military exercises. But there are many more types of simulations like "lone island" simulations where people are going to lone islands and live in primitive conditions. 

Also, the closed-space simulations where people are living in isolated rooms or spaces for simulating the Mars flights are very good examples of physical simulations. 

In that kind of simulation, people are going somewhere. And they are acting as they should act in the real situation. 

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U.S Navy and it new swarm of drones

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Weapons don't kill, people behind weapons kill. This phrase is well known from the National Rifle Associations bandoleers when they are supporting free right to carry weapons. And the protectors of the drone programs says that those drones save lives of own soldiers. This is the problem in the conflict situations. Regular or low-rank soldiers are always doing dirty work in those areas, and in the modern conflicts, there would be no change to leave at the prisoner. In the war against terrorism, the extortion and killing the soldiers, who left in hands of opposite side is very common.


And this makes of course very bad psychiatric problems for those soldiers, who serve in that area. The problem with those operations is, that it's very difficult to get involved in the actions of those pilots and land groups. This is the reason, why drones are very commonly used in those conflict areas. The military commander can remove the man from the seat if there seem to be problems, or the person would get too angry. If that happens in some aircraft the aborting that mission is the only change to stop unwanted action. But if some drone operator would get angry, that man can be changed in the middle of the mission.


There is one thing what is clearly visible in the talking about drones. The robot soldiers face the resistance by the states, what have not skills to produce those weapons. And if course the drones are growing opportunity and threat for military forces around the world. When we are thinking the drones as the improved missile systems, we will face the situation, where cheap and effective drones are handling the situations, what are reserved to STEALTH aircraft, what is suspected useless. The problem with new kind of weapons is that they can knock down STEALTH aircraft if that is located.


One version of those weapons is microwave-band radar, what allows the flight group like whip off other aircraft from their route. And the prize of STEALTH aircraft is very high, what makes creating the cheaper choice very attractive thing. And this is why drones are created. The supporters of the drones are saying, that those weapons and their crews are cheaper to make and operate. The prize of training of drone operator is about 100 Dollars and that person can replace immediately if there are problems. New kind of naval drones can operate from underwater bases, and they can be remotely controlled. Their support bases can be installed with underwater cables, and they can deliver from airplanes or other naval ships. Underwater drones can also be full-scale submarines, what operates independently under the sea.


Those robot-submarines would have enough electricity for supercomputers. And those supercomputers like Cray would have enough calculation power for independent operations. This is why full-scale submarine drones are so fascinating thing to think. Also, some of those drones might be torpedo-shaped RTG powered miniature extreme long-range torpedoes, what would patrol at the ocean. And they might equip with the nuclear warhead, what can be launch in harbors. This kind of systems is very effective and devastating. They can also equip with electromagnetic warheads like microwave weapons, and they can escort nuclear submarines when they are driving underwater in the deep blue sea.


The human shape robots, what operate undersea are capable to stay underwater even in years, and when we are talking about secret underwater complexes, the operators of those robots should not even know, where that robot operates. This would make the information security better with those drones, what cannot tell anything if somebody would catch them. In the world of the military, the mission is to be effective. And that's why drones are taking the place of the highly trained military operators.


Controllers of those devices must not pass any physical tests, and if some mission would go wrong, there would be no own victims in that operation. Every military commander in the world wants to minimize own victims, and that is one reason, why robots are taking place of humans in the front line. This makes of course very bad things in the international operation area. And one of the biggest threats is, that use of force in conflict situations would become easier.

Sources :

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Is the internet putting us together as giant "gaia"?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Have you ever heard term “you can kill my body but not my soul"? Did you ever think what that actually means? Those words sound like that person’s thinking is copied to somewhere, and I always wanted to know did those people really think, that their EEG have been saved to somewhere? In this writing, EEG means thinking, and I begin that thinking is a soul of the people. In this scenario, man is equipped with WLAN-implants what copies his EEG for every second of the person's life to the Internet.


 But if the man uses those implants we might put every human on this planet together. This means that we would have the greatest supercomputer what man can ever think. In this scenario, human brains will connect together, for a great supercomputer. The problem of non-organic or conventional supercomputers is that they don’t have imagination. They can process information what human give to them, but they can’t create new things spontaneously.


All human civilization brains links together with the Internet. But in real life that means people, that all humans will go to some kind of Brahman, and all our race will become one supermind, what can create new things. But when we are talking about that theoretical giant knowledge, we might think that probably that will be our destiny. In some weird theories is an aspect that human organism is a part of gigantic knowledge, and the nucleus in this new age theory is that human is some kind of probe, who walks on the ground and sends data to that informative Gaia.


But in this scenario the man losses own personality. People are like members of giant liquid, what is made for collective information and knowledge. In that scenario, there is no need for unique human been and that kind of scenario of giant collective mind of the civilization. That scenario was in one Sci-Fi movie, where humanoids created giant massive supercomputer, by connecting human brains together with computerized EEG-systems. That kind of “biocomputer” might be colossal but same time frighten vision, what computing might look like in the world of future.

This scenario is very interesting because connecting the brains together, we will make ourselves as a giant computer. But if we will live in a virtual reality world like in some movie, we must realize that will be the end of human race. We will become a part of gigantic supersystem, where is no need for peoples unique skills and personalities. Is this what we want our workers to become? Some giant super collective mind is the worst scenario what futurologists can imagine.

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