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> Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep
> fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more
> than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know?
> Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for
> love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The
> temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately
> to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all
> of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind
> could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see
> it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's
> pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do
> you persist?
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> Because I choose to

If you would do a Matrix like simulation, what would be the best way to do =
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Keep track of every subatomic particle (smallest unit of matter or perhaps=
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energy) and every tick (smallest time unit) check their interaction with ea=
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other based on a set of rules and constants and rearrange or change=20
accordingly? Would that do it? The number of rules and constants would not =
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to be many, would they, if you work on that scale? Anyway it would need to =
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huge database and a lot of calculations since every smallest particle unit =
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to be adjusted according to every other particle unit each tick.

In the Matrix case, the computer also has to interact with every plugged in=
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human so it would need to work in real time. If this constraint is not need=
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the simulation time (real time) between each tick can be as long as it need=
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be since it wouldn't be noticed in the simulated universe. And in this scen=
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our own universe could very well be looked upon as a simulation. In this wa=
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every smallest unit could be its own computer that could communicate/interr=
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with every other smallest unit. In the simulated world this=20
interaction/communication sequence would seem instantaneous. If we call the=
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smallest unit of matter/energy and time a quantum we could say that our wor=
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is nothing but a huge quantum computer simulation were every particle knows=
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about every other particle instantaneously. In this sense, we and every=20
particle, would seem real to each other in our universe (simulation) but th=
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ones simulating us, the ones making up the rules, would not consider us as=
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real...=20

/Ruben


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