The Universe Is ‘Suspiciously’ Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says

SS: We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code.

That is the premise of my latest research, published in the journal AIP Advances. It suggests that gravity is not a mysterious force that attracts objects towards one another, but the product of an informational law of nature that I call the second law of infodynamics.

Problem with the computer simulation hypothesis is that computers works exclusively on symbols. Symbols that have zero meaning to the computer system itself. A computer system never processes meaning ~ only ever symbols. And the symbols themselves are mere abstractions of 1’s and 0’s, which are themselves abstractions of a cell charged full of electrons, and a cell empty of charge, respectively.

So, in such a system, there is no meaning. There is no way to programming meaning or purpose or anything it is to feel like something or someone or to feel anything at all.

In our most realistic computer simulations, nothing is feeling anything. Nothing is alive. Nothing is really here, there or anywhere. It’s all abstractions of computer code that are rendered on screens for us to stare at. Thus a computer simulation has zero meaning without users to stare at a screen.

Therefore, this universe is no way, shape or form, a “computer simulation”.