Sep 21 2009
Universe a virtual simulation ?
It is very easy to jump on the bandwagon of pseudo intellectualism but unfortunately it is useless to do so. The universe may be virtual, try going without water for a few weeks or slit your throat. Whats hunger and whats pain, just a few neurons buzzing around in an organ called the brain right?
We perceive a lot through our senses but our understanding of nature goes far beyond the senses. Besides, what do you mean by virtual? All that lingo is suited for sci-fi films not for actual science. Knowledge comes from perseverance and the pursuit of answers, not by sitting down and proclaiming that every thing is virtual. Even to perceive something as virtual some sense organ is needed. As long as a sense organ exists, it will have a physical existence and hence physical reality always will super-cede any spiritual notion.
Please try reading a book on quantum chromodynamics, Bose-Einstein statistics and Fermi-Dirac theories and then try incorporating spirituality into them. If spirituality is really meant to be the absolute truth then it should encompass all these theories right?
Once you can explain the results of the aforementioned experiments/theories then maybe we can regard such spiritual gibberish as an alternative explanation. Till that point, it is just escapism… an attempt to dilute the harshness of the real world with sugar coated fantasies.