posted on Mar, 22 2012 @ 04:29 PM
reply to post by Ajax84
I am thoroughly glad that someone is taking a serious look at this. Personally, I do not believe in the Simulation Theory, however, I do think the
principles behind it explain the physics of nature. I have been coding, in various forms, for over ten years, and have always seen the similarities
between life and computer code. At it's core, life is a balance between positive and negative forces (0's and 1's). This goes beyond the level of the
atom, and permeates down to the absolute building blocks of existence. Really, it's data. We start at the smallest level, creating some sort of
structure, then move up and create process that interact with that structure, and then further higher processes where one structure interacts with
another, and exactly how those objects interact.
If you take a blood cell, for instance. A blood cell is inherently small, and serves a basic function within the body. Just like a computer code, that
blood cell has a purpose, and its purpose is to perform a necessary process that allows the system to operate. When that blood cell, or all blood
cells become compromised due to a form of cancer (think malformed, destructive code), for example it effects the entire system. The cancer attacks
individual blood cells, either modifying them and therefore modifying how they accomplish their given process or kill them by dismantling their
structure or destroying the internal processes that allow them to function. On a cellular level, it's easy to see the comparisons between computers
and people. It especially becomes evident when you start looking at how viruses and infections attack the body, very much in a similar way to how
viruses and infections effect a computer. Living things (organic) are a higher form of programming than, say, the makings of a stone (inorganic). What
we know as DNA makes up the basis for our source of "coding", it's our genetic code, and who we are depends on the sequence of amino acids, just the
same as a computer program depends on a sequence of characters. There is an exact relationship between the world around us and the world within our
computers, and it's nothing to be afraid of. We are all data.
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