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Time and Space
When real scientists discuss concepts like simulation theory, they frame it, naturally, utilizing the tools and nomenclatures associated with math and science. We live in a very niche place in the cosmos. Goldilocks zone hardly seems apt to describe how miraculously perfect are precarious balance on a razor’s edge of existence is. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re special, or that life is somehow less natural or more magical. It just means, here were are grappling with the elephant in the room. Or ignoring it.
Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist, suggests we not only need a new theory of everything, but we even need new language to safeguard against biases of our natural perceptions leaking in. We do like to change labels. UFOs to UAP, for example. Donald Hoffman, professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, proposes we live in a simulation. I wonder what would happen if Arkani-Hamed and Hoffman talked?
Granted, neither are new in their proposition's. It seems like even before Einstein came out of nowhere with his assertions about reality, we were struggling with reality. Einstein certainly took us to a new place, but also gave us more questions- even questions that he recognized were absurd, reverting to an older paradigm, “God does not play dice.”
