TESSERACT
In a sleep-deprived fever, an idea called TESSERACT came to me. It was incohesive, but somehow made sense to me; it could unify & explain (or at least legitimize) the dichotomy of religion and science. It boiled down to ‘Our reality is a computer simulation that we can’t fully test from our position as simulacra‘, and was a mishmash, a monster mishmash, of fleeting thoughts. As such, I’ve recorded snippets of it below:
- Tad Evan Stauffer’s Science, Existence, Religion, AI, & Creation ‘Theory’
- simulation
- fractal
- turtles all the way down
- artificial intelligence
- singularity
- Turing machine
- Gödel incompleteness theorems
- house of mirrors
- simulation
For the image to the right, if you add all the small digits up to get a number, and then add all of those digits up, etc until you have a 1-digit value, what is that value? answer is ‘3’; religion ‘guesses based on the shape of the image’ and gets it right through luck or pattern recognition, even though that method is not rigorous; science ‘does the math’ to actually justify such an answer.
- religion vs science
- God in our own image
- religion – ‘top down’ holistic approach that ‘skips the work’
- ignorance is a tool to short circuit/take a shortcut to the truth
- science – ‘bottom up’ approach that does the math
- hypothesis: we’re in a simulation
- is this testable? (ie, is it a scientific theory?)
- need a way to prove/disprove hypothesis
- ‘hidden variables’ – an ‘extra dimension’ that we can’t observe (and therefore can’t test?) – similar to a tesseract/hypercube