What should I do if I live in the matrix? Evidence that we live in the matrix

Every child sooner or later asked their parents where the starry sky ends and what is behind it? The answer, as a rule, was terrible for the child’s consciousness: “The Universe is limitless, it has no end.” To realize the existence of something limitless is beyond the power of either a child’s imagination or the brain of an adult. This was the case until films began to appear in world cinema with enviable regularity, the plot of which played with the idea of ​​the illusory nature of our universe. The world-famous trilogy: “The Matrix” became an unconditional hit among such films. However, films, films, but many researchers wondered, what if this is how things really are? From that moment on, a boom began on Earth in the search for parallel worlds and attempts to make contact with the main system administrator program called "humanity".

Universe on the 13th floor

The best way to check the reliability of the proposed version of the illusory nature of our world is to try to create a similar virtual world. This is exactly what the heroes of the film “13th Floor” did. True, without expecting it themselves, they discovered that their own world- just a computer program of a more advanced civilization. It is symbolic that it was on the eve of the coming 2013 that the world media reported news about scientists’ attempts to create a program to simulate an artificial Universe that would have all the parameters of the existing one. Having compared two Universes: artificial and real, scientists are going to make an attempt to find out the reality of the world in which we all live. Today, physicists are confident that they can create a similar model for a world the size of an atomic nucleus. At the same time, scientists from the University of Washington said that it is possible to create models of more major worlds, based on the same principles. At the same time, some researchers fear that the almost unlimited expansion of the computing capabilities of machines may actually make them uncontrollable and dangerous for humans. In case such over computing machines, created by man will indeed appear, then people will enter the post-human era. Any scenario is possible in it, including the creation of virtual worlds with residents who believe that they live in the real world.

Humanity simulation

Researchers call one of the most likely scenarios for the development of post-human civilization not only the gradual fusion of humans and computer systems, but also a gradual retreat into the virtual world. After all, by that time supercomputers will be able to create in the smallest detail any most fantastic world, any historical era, and a person will actually be able to choose in which world to spend his life first. free time, and then perhaps for the rest of your life. Even today, to the question of what reality is, each person will answer differently depending on his social status, wealth and intelligence. At the same time, philosophers who study human consciousness have long stopped connecting his consciousness with the body, believing that the same consciousness can exist in different “carriers.” Indeed, doctors are confident that for consciousness to exist, all that is necessary is its embodiment in carbon-based biological neural networks, which can also be technologically obtained using silicon processors. Similar statements apply to brain cells, if humanity learns to synthesize them electronically, then the resulting cell, which has all the characteristics of a biological one, will be able to replace it, which will inevitably lead to the emergence of artificial people who have the consciousness of a living person, but, unlike him, have an artificial non-aging body with replaceable components. In addition, posthumanity will probably want to model many historical characters with the full surroundings of their era in order to look with their own eyes at possible options for the development of human civilization. However, it may simply not occur to people that the created models will consider themselves to be real, living people. And here lies an extremely exciting guess-version. What if humanity has long ago reached a post-human state, and our world is just a virtual projection of the real world, which has developed so much that it will soon be ready to create its own virtual worlds?

Search for a system administrator

Let's assume that we live in a virtual world, then there must be some objective things that confirm such a guess. Oddly enough, the main evidence lies in human mythology. After all, the Gods of any religion, if you believe the sacred texts, created people, declaring the laws by which they should live. This state of affairs is extremely similar to a programmer who created a computer world and its inhabitants, telling them, through the prototype of God he created, how to behave so that the game does not end before its allotted time. It is not without reason that when people stop following the higher rules, the programmer erases them, populating the world he created with new “modified” entities.

Electronic resort

In this regard, the term “fate” is defined quite simply. In fact, when creating people, the variations in their actions are limited by the imagination of the creator - the programmer, so he comes up with each of the created virtual characters - programs the plot of his life. It is simply impossible to turn away from it; other characters will either return you to the “true” path or destroy it. It is also possible that our world is an amusement park for some higher civilization, whose inhabitants are “loaded” into the body of a person with a certain destiny in order to have fun, and then return to their world. This is eloquently proven by the fate of great people, such as generals or conquerors. Contemporaries said about each of them that they were supposedly led by some external force. They only accept right decisions and take only the right steps. At the same time, genius dictators often complained to those close to them that they heard some voices. But, at some point, the voices suddenly disappear, and the ruler or conqueror flies head over heels down the social ladder, usually to the scaffold. There is nothing to be surprised here, it’s just that in another world, the user paid for the game “become a conqueror”, his consciousness was uploaded into common man, creating ideal conditions for him in our virtual world so that he could reach stratospheric heights. Then, when the player gets tired of playing dictator, he returns to his body, in his world. The person who played the role of a case for the player’s consciousness is thrown to the mercy of fate. Such games can be collective, when a whole group of entities is loaded into our world, or players can play against each other, as is already happening today in human computer strategy games.

Evidence to the stage

As proof of the artificiality of our world, we can cite strange fact, which has long attracted the attention of astronomers around the world. In their opinion, the surrounding space is extremely friendly towards the Earth. It’s as if something is protecting her from cosmic radiation, huge meteorites and other unpleasant surprises of space. Moreover, guardianship became noticeable from the moment intelligent life appeared on the planet. The same carbon necessary for the emergence of life did not arise at the moment of the Big Bang, like all other matter, but only as a result of the most complex, unlikely nuclear reactions in the depths of giant stars, after the explosion, which spread throughout the Universe. Thus, the English astronomer Fred Hall called the Universe a “machinery,” hinting at its artificial nature of creation. And the famous astronomer Martin Rea has repeatedly suggested that both we ourselves and our Universe are nothing more than a virtual model of some more powerful civilization. Of course, no virtual model can be one hundred percent reliable; there must be errors in it, and there are! So John Web from the University of NSW, studying the light of distant quasars, unexpectedly discovered that about six billion years ago, there was a minute shift in the speed of light. However, this cannot be! Unless an unknown programmer overloaded our world by making changes to it.

Have German scientists found the boundary of space?

According to the Daily Mail, German scientists have experimentally scientifically proven that we live in a virtual world. To do this, Silas Bean from the University of Bonn created a theoretical model of the universe to test the fundamental principle of its infinity. In his model, the scientist used the theory of quantum chronodynamics, which describes the strong interaction elementary particles. The scale of the model can be represented as the interaction of particles to the power of 10 to minus 15. The virtual model of space created in this way limited the energy of particles, confirming the thesis of a finite universe that only imitates reality. It also turned out that back in 1966 the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit was calculated, which describes the upper limit of the energy of cosmic rays from distant sources. This discovery, however, does not directly indicate the virtuality of our Universe, but determines the limit of the propagation of cosmic rays. In conclusion, we can only say one thing: if our world is virtual, no matter if it was created for the purpose of an experiment, a game, or a resting place for entities from more developed civilizations, it is of interest to the creators only as long as humanity does not realize the unreality of its existence. In this regard, the most reasonable thing for people would be to pretend that they have no idea about anything and observe all the higher laws sent down to us by the creators.

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ITC readers became acquainted with the basics of the “Matrix” hypothesis back in December last year - the corresponding one then caused a real flurry of discussion.

Let us briefly recall that, despite the seemingly absurdity of assumptions about the unreality of our existence, scientists now take the hypothesis about the artificial origin of “objective reality” quite seriously. Although it still remains unproven, more and more data is being discovered every day that points to its correctness.

And just the other day, researchers from Canada, Italy and England announced that they had found yet another proof of the illusory nature of our existence. To do this, they studied the inhomogeneity of the cosmic microwave background radiation (the "afterglow" of the Big Bang) and discovered the "first significant evidence" that our visible world is a hologram.

Their scientific research Scientists presented in the form of a visual image:

The illustration provided by the researchers shows a timeline. On the left, at the very beginning, there is a cloudy and fuzzy holographic phase. The vagueness is due to the fact that time and space have not yet been formed. Here the Universe is as close as possible to the moment of the Big Bang - it is supposedly flat. This is a kind of matrix from which volume then emerges.

By the end of the holographic phase, space takes on geometric shapes - shown in the 3rd ellipse - and is already described by Einstein's equations. After 375,000 years, the cosmic microwave background radiation appears. It contains the templates for the development of stars and galaxies in the later Universe - far right image.

In other words, scientists have concluded that our three dimensional space together with time, it is contained within 2D boundaries and is a projection of some flat universe from another dimension.

“Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions is actually a distortion of a flat two-dimensional field. — says study co-author Professor Kostas Skenderis. “Essentially, we discovered that our Universe is a three-dimensional hologram on a two-dimensional surface.”

For ease of understanding, the professor “not entirely correctly” compares this phenomenon with watching 3D films. The viewer sees the width, depth, volume of objects, but at the same time understands that their source is the flat screen of the cinema. Only in our reality we not only observe the depth of objects, but we can also feel them.

“The situation is similar with holographic cards,” the professor adds, “where a three-dimensional image is encoded on a plane. The only difference is that in our case the whole universe is encoded on the plane.”

Thus, scientists have again come to the conclusion that what we see is more of a “fantasy” of our brain than an objective reality.

Finally, Professor Skenderis noted: “The hologram is a huge leap forward in understanding the structure of the Universe and the moment of its creation. General theory Einstein's relativity works great when it comes to large scales. When research descends to the quantum level, it begins to fall apart. Scientists have been working on reconciliation for decades quantum theory and Einstein's theory of gravity. Some believe this can be achieved through holographic representation. We hope we are getting closer to that point.”

Arguments and facts for the fact that the world is a simulation for us and we live in a matrix. Have you ever thought that our world could be inside some kind of supercomputer that simulates hundreds of billions of planets, Universes, intelligent races, as well as the behavior of creatures, Gods and common things. It models consciousness and feelings, habits and friends. Everything.

At first, this may seem like nonsense, and as one of the frequent commentators on my channel said, “they used to burn at the stake for this and such thoughts were considered heresy.” But is this heresy? And for whom? For people who don't want to consider alternative theories of our world, this may be complete nonsense! They are content to be the center of the mega-world, they shake their uniqueness like a huge bar of gold, presenting themselves as aborigines from ancient times who are at an early stage of their development.

I will say this, if you read some of Plato's works, you will understand that the theory of the unreality of the world is not new. Humanity did not begin to think about this when Hollywood introduced the world to the Matrix trilogy and other films based on the idea of ​​unreality and the programmatic nature of the world. Filmmakers often use popular ideas for their films. But to their credit, they were able to raise the discussion of the Matrix to a new level and many scientists began to look for evidence on Earth. And then I will give you “Revelations”, which may make you take a fresh look at the theory of the unreality of the world.

1. Modern computers are capable of creating simulations and simulations of various events. Even your phone is capable of more than your brain. It processes hundreds or thousands of operations per second. In a few decades, computers will be so powerful that they will create simulations of events using sentient beings who have reason and intelligence and they will not understand that they are in a simulation. Do you doubt it?

2. No matter how perfect the simulation program is, it may contain errors that require correction. There is probably no person who has not experienced the feeling that these events have already happened and are as if being repeated. Oh yeah, déjà vu! Ghosts, miracles and other unknown things in the world are a software error and many understand that some kind of nonsense is happening, but are afraid to express their opinion.

3. Our entire Universe consists of numbers, and computer programs Of what? Are you catching up? Even the names of God and Lucifer have numbers. Numbers play a key role in our lives. Mathematics underlies the binary code with which programs are written and the same simulation and simulation is based on it. If people could create a simulation, then why couldn't others? Still have doubts and consider me a liar? Let's continue!

4. Why is our planet a planet with almost ideal conditions for life? Why not Venus or Mars, why people on Earth? We are far from the Sun, the Earth’s magnetic field protects us from radiation, we have water and food, a temperate climate and much more, as if artificially created for an ideal life. Isn't it too perfect? The answer lies on the surface. These conditions are created in the simulation.

5. Theory about parallel worlds and multi-Universes. It is logical that our creators need to test various options for their simulations and modeling. It’s like updating programs, including those on your gadgets. There are bugs everywhere that need to be fixed and released. new version updates. Billions of simulation options help with this.

6. The earth is in almost ideal conditions! But logically, throughout the Universe there are billions of planets that are both younger and older than ours. But for some reason humanity has not discovered any intelligent creatures in the Universe, which is quite strange, given the scope of outer space. In this case, several theories are born about why we have not made contact with other civilizations. According to the first version of the modeling or simulation, we were deliberately placed away from everyone else in order to observe how we would cope with the task alone. Will we be able to reach other inhabited planets or not? And here the theory of multi-Universes, where there are different numbers of inhabited planets, comes into play. It is possible that in ours we are alone, but in other Universes there is a different number of inhabited planets. There may also be those in which there are no signs of life at all, why not? Well, the last theory may be that we are programmed to consider ourselves the only ones in the entire Universe in order to see what happens. Difficult to understand? In my opinion no, everything is as simple as the world itself :-)

7. Let's look at how God can fit into the whole idea of ​​biomass, which is food for worms:-) Why does God have to be something floating in the clouds, surrounded by angels? Isn't the programmer the same Creator who is capable of creating worlds and their inhabitants? Does the programmer want us to be his slaves and serve him? As we know from the example of people, we are all different. Some are selfless and do not need extra attention, others want to enslave the world and make everyone their subjects. Or maybe he didn’t want anyone to know about him at all and his creations themselves guessed about his existence and came up with a religion in which his desires were supposedly written down. What about the idea of ​​creating a world in 7 days? I think there is no need to explain anything here at all. Programmers are workaholics, but sometimes they still take a break from their numbers.

8. What is at the edge of the Universe? And why is it growing? As many people know, games are complemented by various modifications, levels, updates, and the game can grow from small to huge. What if our programmers are constantly working on our Universe, improving and increasing its size?

9. What if the simulation is multi-level and our creators are another simulation and so on ad infinitum. This is similar to the idea of ​​artificial intelligence that trains itself and creates its own kind. Do you know that people are now working on a similar program? Does it sound so fantastic now? But if this is an endless simulation, where then are the true Creators, the Originals, who created this whole big game?

10. What if all the distant galaxies in our Universe are empty and made in order to create for us the illusion of something big? What if it’s just a set, like in Hollywood films. The outside is beautiful, but inside the planets may just be binary code and so we need to get to the farthest corners of the Universe to check it out. But by this point, our Creators may create an update and launch it into our simulation or simply erase our memory.

In March 1999, the film “The Matrix” was released on cinema screens, which immediately became a cult classic. In an action-packed form and using revolutionary special effects, it substantiated a strange idea: what if the world around us is a virtual reality created by powerful artificial intelligence? The idea captivated many, and some wondered: maybe the filmmakers are not so far from the truth?

Variants of solipsism

Turning dates evoke a desire to rethink the past and fantasize about the future. The notorious “Millennium” was no exception - the transition to the new millennium, which was associated with January 1, 2000 (although in reality 2000 was not the first year of the new millennium, but the last of the outgoing one). At that time, apocalyptic concepts about the “end of the world” and the “end of history” became fashionable. Therefore, it is not surprising that the half-forgotten philosophical concept set out in the film “The Matrix” gained incredible popularity at that time.

The concept of “maya,” that is, the a priori illusory nature of the surrounding world, has been discussed by philosophers for a very long time. It acquired an extremely radical form in the form of solipsism, the foundations of which were outlined at the beginning of the 18th century by the Parisian physician Claude Brunet. Proponents of solipsism believe that the only reality that reliably exists for any of us is our inner world.

Although many critics of solipsism equate it either with extreme selfishness or with full-fledged madness, there is a sound grain in the very formulation of the question. It is well known that personal perception is unique and variable, depending on many factors, so we can never be sure that the information that comes from the outside world is perceived by all people in the same way. An obvious example is color blindness. There are colorblind people who do not distinguish colors, but there are others who, on the contrary, see shades of color where normal people only one is determined. Which of us is closer to true reality? And in this case, does true reality exist?..

It is clear that the film “The Matrix” is only an artistic image. But he prompted scientists to think about the disturbing question of the relationship between the illusory and the real in our world. The answer was unexpected.

Our whole life is a game?

The "brain in a flask" is a classic thought experiment used by modern philosophers to discuss aspects of the perception of existence. Its essence is as follows: imagine that a certain scientist managed to remove a human brain without damage and placed it in a flask with a nutrient solution. In this case, the neurons of the experimental brain are connected to a computer that generates electrical impulses, identical to those that the brain would receive while in the body. Thus, the person to whom the brain belongs, despite the absence of a body, will still be aware of himself as existing and comprehending the world. Since the impulses that neurons receive are the only opportunity for any person to interact with the surrounding reality, from the point of view of the brain there is no way to guarantee whether it is in the skull or in the flask. Therefore, most beliefs in objective reality are, by definition, false.

Rich Terrill from the Lab jet propulsion NASA, which participated in the creation of interplanetary vehicles, resorted to the “Brain in a Flask” experiment to present a very original view of the nature of the Universe. The scientist believes that we are all inside some kind of “divine” computer, and our personalities are a product of the work of artificial intelligence. In justifying his theory, Rich Terrill recalls Gordon Moore's law, who noted that the computing power of computers doubles every two years. At this rate, within thirty years one hundred million computers will be able to simulate everything. human lives with all thought processes and impressions. If this becomes possible, then why not assume that it has already happened at some point, and that we, with all our sensations, are part of a working computer program?

Rich Terrill argues that, unlike the Brain in a Flask experiment, there is a way to prove the illusory nature of the world.

“Like all scientists, we explain physical processes mathematical equations. Because of this mathematics, the behavior of the universe is extremely varied. Einstein said: “The eternal mystery of the world is its knowability. The very fact of this knowability seems like a miracle.” The universe should not work according to laws and equations that can be easily reduced to a few pages, and therefore modeled... Other interesting feature of this world is that it behaves in the same way as the reality of the computer game Grand Theft Auto. While playing, you can explore the gaming city of Liberty City for as long as you like and in phenomenal detail. I made a calculation of how huge this city is - it turned out that it was millions of times larger than my game console could accommodate. You see exactly what you need to see in the city in this moment, shrinking an entire metropolis down to the size of a console. The universe behaves exactly the same way. IN quantum mechanics particles do not have a definite state unless they are observed at a given moment. Many theorists have spent a lot of time trying to explain this. One explanation is that we live in a simulation, seeing what we should see at the right moment for someone.”

Quantum Matrix

Richie Terrill's theory seems crazy, but it has unexpected support from leading physicists.

IN beginning of XXI century, the famous scientist Seth Lloyd made an estimate of the entire computing power of the Universe, which he views as a huge computer performing endless calculations at the quantum level. It turned out that for a complete simulation of our entire reality from the moment Big Bang Until now, you will need a machine with 1090 bits of memory, which will have to perform 10120 logical operations. The numbers look monstrous, but the same Lloyd calculated the maximum power of a computer with a mass of one kilogram and a volume of one cubic decimeter - it turned out that this amount of matter can perform about 1050 operations per second. Therefore, based on the power of such an “ultimate” computer, the simulation of the Universe does not seem too fantastic. Seth Lloyd also used Moore's Law and found that the entire Universe could be simulated in two hundred and fifty years - a paltry period by historical standards.

Further more. In October 2012, physicists Silas Bean, Zohreh Davoudi and Martin Savage published a paper outlining the possibilities of scientific proof of the virtuality of the Universe. To do this, they tried to imagine how the laws of the virtual world would differ from the laws of the present. First of all, they determined the “simulation limit” (the physical limit at which hypothetical “divine” programmers would stop), showing that a femtometer (10-15 meters) would be quite sufficient. Then they themselves modeled a local piece of space - the super-powerful computer at their disposal was still enough for a model ranging in size from 2.5 to 5.8 femtometers. At the next stage, physicists calculated the time required to create a complete model of the Universe: they came up with 410 years, that is, not much more than Seth Lloyd. And here - attention! — the most interesting thing: based on their calculations, scientists predicted that in such a simulation of the Universe a cutoff effect would be observed in the spectrum of cosmic rays of certain energies. And such a cliff, described as the “Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit,” really exists in our world!

Can it be considered proven that we live inside a computer model created by some older and much more powerful civilization? Not yet, because the existence of the “Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit” is disputed. New research and more accurate instruments are needed. And we should always remember: even if the illusory nature of our world is ever established, we are unlikely to be able to get out of the virtual Universe into the real one. However, at the same time, we will acquire such wonderful abilities that the characters in the film “The Matrix” could not even dream of.

Anton Pervushin

Elon Musk suggested that in the foreseeable future people will begin to interact with electronic interfaces through neurolace - a special layer implanted directly into the cerebral cortex. The term was previously coined by writer Ian Banks.
Neurolace will allow people to process large amounts of data at enormous speed. One of its first prototypes was created in 2015, when American researchers successfully managed to implant such a system into the brains of mice.
But if people have already managed to create neuro-lace, then why not assume that it was invented even earlier, because, as they say, everything new is well forgotten old? Are we always in control of our own brain? Now there are already systems capable of suppressing certain memories or, on the contrary, awakening false memories... And sometimes people commit some absurd and even asocial acts, as if under someone else’s influence. We take them for crazy, but why not assume that their brain is connected to an invisible computer that controls us all? Irrational behavior could be, for example, the result of a computer glitch. But reality is what we are forced to see. We are all connected to machines that manipulate our consciousness, like in the notorious film “The Matrix” by the Wachowski brothers.