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How do we rule out wrong answers? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This popped into my mind the other day, and I've been distracted by it since.... You know when you're trying to recall something, and a wrong answer pops into your head, but you know it's wrong. Like how does that work? E.g. if you're trying to remember who made a song, and your brain can almost simultaneously go - oh it's that band, and then oh no not them. It feels like there has to be two (at least) parts of the brain working on it at the same time.

Maybe I'll be lucky and a neuroscientist will drop in and link me to a paper. More likely it's something to discuss with wild speculation. Either way, I'm hoping writing it down will stop it distracting me.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s the simulation buffering. I won’t go into the math, because I don’t understand it, but as the universe expands, the quantum field is stretched. This requires more and more memory to access specific data. Every conscious thought, by an increasingly populated universe, contributes to this expansion and destabilization of memory. This entropy requires the simulation to compartmentalize data to make memory more efficient. It’s why the answer is always on the tip of your tongue. Eventually the connections will be so disparate along the quantum field that everyday tasks will take longer and longer.

TLDR: The universe has dementia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a fairly good summary of my argument against why we are in a simulation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If we’re not in a simulation then we have to be prepared for the fact that panpsychism is real, which is another reason we need universal healthcare.