LIFE A CREATION OF NATURE OR A COMPUTER GENERATED ILLUSION?

Do you remember how you imagined the future to be when you were a kid? Flying cars in the sky, skating to school on hoverboards or having a robot as a friend? Once can argue that we are getting closer to this futuristic vision,but unforunately we have a way to go yet.

Imagine everything you think to know about the world you live in is wrong: the laws of physics,hystory, religion -everything that you can perceive trough your senses and what you learned in your life has been controlled and altered to make you function in a specific way. Your reality is nothing but a digital simulation creaed by our much more advanced ancestor. The 1999 science fiction film The Matrix is a based on a very similar idea: it depicts a dystopian future in which reality, as percived by most humans, is a simulated reality created by sentient machines. This theory has become a scientific hypothesis put forward by physicist and philosopher

Nick Bostrom at Oxford University. In his paper "Are you living in a computer simulation ?" published in 2003 in the journal Philosophical Quarter by Bostrom suggests that there is a posiibility that our world is,in fact, a computer simulation.

In this argument Bostrom uses the term posthumans, which define our "ancestors which are more tecnologically advanced version of us'and "humans that are able to completely simulate our universe digitally'. This is called Simulation Argumented has attracted a great deal of attention, and scientists are repetedly trying to find proof for or against this theory. The outcomes are very interesting and imporant in order to understand what is to be expected of the rise of artificial intelligence and the world we live today. Silas Beane, Professor of Physics at University of Washingthon, believes that he has faund a glicth in the working of our universe that, if proven, could support Bostrom'argument." Artificial environments are built on a 3D grid, which is very similar to the foundations of the environment of a video game. If we live in a compute simulation, we should be able to find this grid somewhere." Beane's theory states that if he can prove that light beams in space don't travel according to our physics, via the shortest distance, but instead in zig-zag manner obeying the law of grid, it would prove that our universe is operating in simulated, artificial manner.

At last year' Recode code conference, made a surprise statement about the Simulation Argument: "we almost certainly live in a simulation, there is one billion chance that this is base reality."

Bank of America analysts also released a statement supporting the idea" there is a 20 to 50 percent chance our world is a Matrix-style virtual reality and everything we experience is just a simulation." There are certain advantages to being a machine. We humans are limited by our input-out put rate-we learn only two bits a second, so a tone is lost.

To a machine, we must seem like slowed-down whale song."

Artificial intelligence is one of the most exiting areas right now. Problem solving in the future will heavily rely on the development of intelligence technologies. Therefore, the tech pioneers of today are involved in thought experiments that envision a world which optimises the relation between man and machine.Philosophers have long been concentrate about how we can know that our world isn't just a very believable simulation of the real one. But concerne about that as become more active in recent years, as computer and artificial intelligence have advancerd. The simulation argument bears some resemblance to Rene' Descartes Meditation of First Philosophy from 1641 where he says that there could be "evile genius" shaping our perceptions. But where Descartes'argument was essentially about scepiticism "How do you know you`re not living in the Matrix? The simulation argument is about how we envision the future. Going all the way back to the classical age, the greek philosopher Plato included allegory to his master work to his master work The Republic. Allegory of the cave.Plato hypothesies a group of people who have spend their life chained up in a cave, facing a blank wall on which they see projected shadow of objects to whch they gave names and which represent their reality.He suggests that we consider to be "reality is infact only a reflection of reality until we proceed to "second bird" which is the birth of our mind: According to Plato these shadows represent reality to these "prisoners" because this is all have ever known. Only when they find their way out of the cave will they understand that they have not known the true of reality. The only way out is knoledge and reflection. The reality see is not automatically the truth. We can compare this scenario with the fate of the main protagonist in the Truman show, a popular satirical drama from the nineties which an unwanted baby grows up in an artificial constructed world set by corporations who turn the man's life into a profitable TV show. Truman, the star of the show, has no idea that the life he knows is notthing but a simulation. On the other hand, theoritical phycist and author of The reality is not what is seems, Carlo Rivelli believes that the theory is "bullshit". In a recent interview , he explains why the theory is invalid:"Reality maybe very different than what we think, but no in a such childish way. We have computers that are remarkably advanced. But to then thik of these technological inventions and go ah! This is how the universe must be! No. There is nothing about the simulation idea that helps me to understand the world of myself any better."

Going back to Silas Beane's idea of how to find proof of the argument by finding glitches in our system, it has to be considered that even if we would ever find glicthes in our universe, the mater of the simulation we are living in would simply wipe clean the memory of any such glitch. The fact is, we cannot prove that the simulation theory is true or not.

"You are not going to get proof that we're not in a simulation, because any evidence that we could getcould be simulated," David Chalmers, a professor of phylosophy at New York University."Maybe we're in a simulation, maybe we're not, but if we are, hey , it's not so bad."

In that case, you and I being simulacra should just make the most of our lives-we should create our lives in such excting ways that our ancestor god isn't tempted to swicth off our program.