I started thinking about how one could create a MATRIX-like fully immersive virtual world. Would it be necessary to simulate every particle? If the brain is already predicting reality, wouldn't it be enough to just connect the brains? What if the external reality is simply someone else's prediction? If two people's predictions contradict each other, then everyone slightly modifies their own (just as we modify our own model when perceiving reality) until a consistent world forms. Since the inconsistent state before the consistent state disappears forever, what we perceive as continuous time is just the succession of continuous consistent states, which is why we see the world as consistent.
Just a silly thought experiment, but what if our world was like this? It would be interesting to build a simulation made up of simple agents living in such a reality. So, there is no "external" reality, just the predictions of each other. I wonder if such a simulation could evolve into a world similar to ours after setting a few basic conditions?
Could such a model answer questions that we currently have no answer to? Consciousness, intuition, the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics (Bell's theorem, spooky action at a distance), etc.
I started thinking about how one could create a MATRIX-like fully immersive virtual world. Would it be necessary to simulate every particle? If the brain is already predicting reality, wouldn't it be enough to just connect the brains? What if the external reality is simply someone else's prediction? If two people's predictions contradict each other, then everyone slightly modifies their own (just as we modify our own model when perceiving reality) until a consistent world forms. Since the inconsistent state before the consistent state disappears forever, what we perceive as continuous time is just the succession of continuous consistent states, which is why we see the world as consistent.
Just a silly thought experiment, but what if our world was like this? It would be interesting to build a simulation made up of simple agents living in such a reality. So, there is no "external" reality, just the predictions of each other. I wonder if such a simulation could evolve into a world similar to ours after setting a few basic conditions?
Could such a model answer questions that we currently have no answer to? Consciousness, intuition, the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics (Bell's theorem, spooky action at a distance), etc.
What do you think? :)
I have an article about this: https://medium.com/geekculture/our-universe-is-a-massive-neural-network-heres-why-a0d5a5787230
Very nice piece. At the risk of introducing you to someone you already know, Erik Hoel writes great stuff about the intersection of Consciousness and AI. Here’s a recent piece. R https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/consciousness-is-a-great-mystery