A Key To Exit The Simulation?
What possible technological advance could free us from imprisonment in a whole multiverse simulation?
It is a possibility that the universe around us, and most likely around it, is a very comprehensive, detailed, and complex simulation that requires quite a lot of high performance cores, memory, and energy to run¹.
Indeed, I’ve discussed in the past some of the various reasons why we might find ourselves inside a simulation such as being future criminals serving a sentence, it being our ultimate evolutionary imperative, or perhaps even having kicked it off, we jumped in for a fun time in ultra-immersive VR and have forgotten somehow how to actually get out.
Recently, I theorised in a recent article about the possibility of an emergent AI being more conducive to the survival of our species (if it notices us at all) if it were able to understand us more fully by being familiar with our drives, emotions, and most of all humanity. (Humanity, allegedly.)
Perhaps, though, there’s another factor to consider at the intersection of us being inadvertently (or purposefully) trapped in a simulation and finding a method by which we could finally free ourselves (or escape, if no-one notices outside and puts us back in and blocks up the hole).
