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Artanthos t1_ixedy5g wrote

Reply to comment by Samothrace_ in Expert Proposes a Method For Telling if We All Live in a Computer Program by garden_frog

What if that’s just data being fed to our instruments.

The data would only need to be produced at the resolution our instruments could handle and only for the areas we are actively looking at while we are looking.

Or maybe the scientists are part of the simulation, philosophical zombies, and the only data simulated is what you as a lay person are physically looking at/listening to.

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KSRandom195 t1_ixfiesa wrote

Yep, the easiest way to do this is probably the brain in the vat hypothesis.

We know that our eyes and brains lie to us and play tricks to explain or even “fix” our perception of the world through our bodies senses. So if the simulated input messes up for a few frames we are already programmed to just kind of ignore and correct it.

For instance, there are stories that when European ships first landed in the Americas that the natives just… couldn’t see them. It’s not that their eyes didn’t process the information, it was that their brains decided it was not possible, and so just didn’t register that the ships existed.

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