Metaphysical Bounce

Earthfiles

Last year on April 5, 2016, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the sold out 17th Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate took place before a packed audience moderated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The question debated before the audience was: “Is this universe a simulation?” — meaning computer simulation. Some physicists and mathematicians say the answer is more likely to be yes, than not, and that eventually the “simulated universe theory” will be proved. The 1999 Hollywood science fiction movie, The Matrix, depicts an Earth future dominated by robots created in the 21st Century that rebelled against the Homo sapiens sapiens to take control over humans. The robots in The Matrix forced human minds under their control with cybernetic implants that connect the human brains to a simulated virtual reality called the Matrix that is mostly indistinguishable from reality. There have been several science journal papers about the hypothesis that we're in a computer simulated universe projected as a hologram from another dimension, and that Earth Homo sapiens sapiens are evolving into a new species that will be part organic and part computer — cyborgs that will be stronger, smarter and able to periodically upgrade to avoid death. On July 10, 2017, DARPA, the U. S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, announced that it is allocating $65 million in new funding to develop neural implants that could allow the human brain to interface directly with computers. The implants would be no larger than two nickels stacked on top of one another and inserted on top of or in the cerebral cortex. DARPA wants “high resolution” neural implants that can record signals from as many as one million neurons at once and be capable of two-way communication — receiving signals and transmitting them back out. I asked Brian Greene, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University in New York City what he thinks about the computer simulation hypothesis and the possible Earth future of a new species of human-machine cyborgs. Link to full report here: https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?I...