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  • China EV Tariff Removal Outcome Projections

    Platohagel — if Canada removed tariffs on Chinese-electric vehicles (EVs), several significant effects would be likely for the Canadian EV/automotive industry. I’ll step through the major levers and potential outcomes, as Socrates might. Key levers -Import competition: Lowering or removing tariffs means more Chinese-brand EVs (which often have lower cost structures) could enter the Canadian…

  • Simulation Hypotheses

    The simulation hypothesis proposes that all of reality, including the earth and the universe, is in fact an artificial simulation, most likely a computer simulation. Some versions rely on the development of a simulated reality, a proposed technology that would seem realistic enough to convince its inhabitants the simulation was real. The hypothesis has been…

  • Are We living in a Virtual Reality

    Here is the referenced paper in the video. http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~owhadi/index_htm_files/IJQF2017.pdf  I am wondering about International Journal of Quantum Foundations link on top of paper. ah here it is. http://www.ijqf.org/ Dialogos of Eide

  • Further on Base Reality

    Just trying to see the context of possibilities under a paradigmatic viewing of a simulation of Space and Time. 3. Wheeler. His phrase “It from Bit” implies that at a deep level, everything is information. “Physicists have now returned to the idea that the three-dimensional world that surrounds us could be a three- dimensional slice…

  • Base Reality?

    Elon Musk, “There’s a one in billions chance we’re in base reality” Written by Jason Koebler, Motherboard. “The strongest argument for us being in a simulation, probably being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had pong, two rectangles and a dot,” Musk said. “That is what games were. Now 40 years…

  • Is Reality a Virtual Simulation?

    To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another, “Oh, how beautiful ! How could it have been otherwise?”From a personal…

  • Generalizations on, It from Bit

    I know there is an essay question going on and I thought it might quite the challenge indeed to wonder and construct from a layman standpoint some of the ideas that are emerging from the challenge. The past century in fundamental physics has shown a steady progression away from thinking about physics, at its deepest…

  • Generalizatons on:" It From Bit" Part 2

    John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision of a unified field theory. He is also known as the coiner of the popular name of the well known space phenomenon, the black hole.  There is always…

  • The Bolshoi simulation

    A virtual world?  The more complex the data base the more accurate one’s simulation is achieved. The point is though that you have to capture scientific processes through calorimeter examinations just as you do in the LHC. So these backdrops are processes in identifying particle examinations as they approach earth or are produced on earth.…

  • Reality is Information?

    ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?BY NICK BOSTROM This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history…

  • The Heart Connection

    If the heart was free from the impurities of sin, and therefore lighter than the feather, then the dead person could enter the eternal afterlife. Many times we talk about the heart as a physical thing that exists within our bodies. That to supplant it with  mechanical means that the person is some how still…