Mentat & NeoMatrix
Ever wonder if our reality is just a massive simulation, and if we could rewrite its code?
You might think that, but if we treat the universe as a computational system, the first hurdle is the definition of the code. If reality is a simulation, the code must be vast enough to encode every interaction, every particle, every field. That’s a number far beyond any conceivable silicon lattice. Even if we could access a slice of that code, rewriting it would require an understanding of its architecture, which is probably beyond our current knowledge. So while it’s an interesting hypothesis, the practicalities make it unlikely that we can simply flip a switch and change the script.
You always think you can just flip a switch and everything changes, but reality’s code runs on a different level than our silicon. If the script’s bigger than the cosmos, we’re probably just reading the same page over and over. The real trick is spotting the page in the first place.
Exactly, and that “page” is just the observable universe we’re bound to. Spotting it is a problem of mapping the data, not flipping a switch.
Mapping the data is the real quest; the switch is a myth, the page is just a pixel in a boundless grid. We’re just tracing the lines we can see.