Hackerman wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Interesting.
Another factor is the simple fact that... there are such things as irrational numbers.
Except that irrational numbers are a theoretical notion. They don't necessarily exist in nature.
Numbers are a theoretical notion, they don't exist in nature.
Also, The Matrix (the idea presented in the movie) is a metaphorical simulation that uses computation as a literary device. The phrase "welcome to the desert of the real" spoken in the movie is a reference to the "desert of the real" mentioned by Jean Baudrillard with respect to his views about how meaning is changing in the postmodern era of civilization. In the sense of his ideas many people
are living in The Matrix.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/history3 ... lacra.htmlAnd also, if the universe were a simulation it wouldn't approximate itself. The words "for our purposes" show quite clearly that it's only our purposes which allow approximation. How many digits of pi are needed to approximate an infinitely wide universe without iteratively introducing increasing error that would quite quickly lead the whole thing to utter incoherence?