Sure we’ve all seen the movie The Matrix but if you want to watch a movie similarly good, then watch The 13th Floor. But the premise isn’t all that fantastical if you think about it. There are things in the world that don’t make sense and seem to defy logic. I’m by no means the first to propose this by-the-way but want to add in one interesting point about it. Why do we sleep? Have you ever wondered why we spend over 30% of our existence disconnected from reality? I intentionally used the word disconnected because my thought is that if we are all in a simulation how do you control the CPU cycles needed to maintain this level of detail? One way would be to have half of the people “sleeping” for a third of the day cycle. So back to my original question, why do we sleep? To be honest, if we are in a simulation I’m fine with that. Unlike Neo in The Matrix I wouldn’t want the pill that woke me up. What is the expression, ignorance is bliss? 🙂
Month: December 2016
Gift of Extinction
In typical fashion I woke up this morning with an interesting thought; what if an alien race appeared and brought us a gift of technology, something such as teleportation. What if it wasn’t a gift but a crashed ship and the only thing remaining were two teleportation chambers. Scientists would have just enough technological know-how to replicate them, all the time patting themselves on the back for being so clever. Humanity would trip over themselves to put teleportation devices on every corner of the world. We would likely do this without fully understanding how it worked. Sure teleportation would be amazing but it would likely take us several decades to fully understand how it worked, if ever. But what if this “gift” were in fact a Trojan horse of the worst kind. Imagine every time you use the device the alien race were replacing a few atoms with their own. Ever so gradually we would start becoming like them. This change, gradually introduced over time, might be so slow it would be chocked up to some quirk in evolution.