Modelling Reality
Map of Concept
Reality Proper
Simulations
Truth
Misc
E - Given the same input, context changes the output
Full Models
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E - Given the same input, context changes the output
Full reality is reality in all of its complexities. It is combinatorially explosive.
It is comprehended and observed only in part by humans, who live in common reality.
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Simulations are all about resolution and complexity. When something is just as real as that which it’s trying to simulate, then it’s arguably on par with it.
We can debate ‘what is considered reality’, but I believe thinking about it in terms of complexity may be a good start.
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There are many interpretations of truth.
From C - Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Truth is that which remains invariant within a multitude of variance.
This is what science aims to do - across all variations, what are the real patterns that still remain?
From B - Opening the Hand of Thought
We are the blind who tries and figure out the elephant by touch.
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To be able to grasp full reality is to take in and interpret the entirety of the universe/ reality with all its complexity in our minds. Our sensory apparatus and the capacity of our brains are literally incapable such task. Thus, it only ever holds a low resolution version of reality and works off of that.
From another angle, we always see the world through a frame to avoid the frame problem. Full reality, however, is combinatorially explosive. Thus, we can never comprehend it as we can never experience anything without a frame.
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Everything is linked to everything else. Nothing in this universe can stand in absolute irrelevance to everything else, as its irrelevance is defined by it’s relationship between it and everything else. Everything acts as a constraint to everything else.
Pure chaos is impossible, as is pure formlessness.
Think of yin/ yang.
See also/ References:
Non Duality MOC
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Each unit in each tree that I have described, moreover, is the fixed, unchanging residue of some system in the living city just as a house is the residue of the interactions between the members of a family, their emotions and their belongings; and a freeway is the residue of movement and commercial From Christopher Alexander, A City is Not a Tree
A beautiful ground-up conceptualisation of the world emerging as natural byproducts from the ‘in betweens’ of basic units.
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Simulations are, by definition, recreations of some input reality.
They seek to reproduce the real thing as much as possible, but are ‘lower resolution’ because they lack, on a fundamental level, something that the real thing has.
Think of how computers are often attempting to 'simulate' something, whether it be conversations, paper or scenarios and situations. In our current state, we are unable to completely recreate reality in all its complexity on a computer, and so it stays as a lower res 'mock'. However, various features of it are computer-specific, for example a web browser isn't a 'simulation' of Parts of it could be, like the bookmark, but the browser in its entirety becomes its own thing .
It becomes real (no longer a simulation) when all of its elements and complexity are at play, or when we can no longer differentiate between the real and the simulated (see Simulation for more discussion).
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Common reality is the one in which most of humans operate in daily.
This is not full reality as it will never be conceivable to us because of it’s complexity. This is why our minds hold only a simulation of reality.
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There are two kinds of from Kosho Uchiyama's Opening the Hand of Thought :
Examples:
There’s no absolute, cosmic reason why these facts are so, making them ‘accidental’.
Things that happen in all versions and permutations, that don’t change with any resistance, opposition, or denial.
Example:
All living things die.
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Simulations are lower resolution recreations of a reality that either already exists or hasn’t been discovered yet. When a simulation reaches the complexity of what it’s simulating, it’s no longer a simulation as it has transcended onto the same plane of existence.
A reality that ‘hasn’t been discovered yet’ means, for example, the sound of a trumpet and piano combined. This fused instrument has not being created yet, but you could engineer the sound waves with software to simulate it.
The reality discussed here can only exist in common reality as our minds are only capable of recreating a lower resolution of full reality. If our simulation reaches common reality, we will deem it to be consistent with full reality.
What makes something ‘real’ and no longer a simulation? I suggested that it’s when the simulation reaches the same level of complexity as what it’s trying to simulate (the target). But what if it’s not at the same level of complexity, but it’s behaviour is indistinguishable from the simulation target?
Just because it’s artificially created, does it make it ‘less real’? If we can no longer tell AI robots apart from humans, what stops us from deeming it to be as ‘real’ as us?
If everyone was in VR and there was no difference between VR and common reality (like some Matrix situation), how might we perceive complexity and its role here?
This question ultimately comes down to the opposite of simulation - ‘reality’.
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