purple_hamster66 t1_ixdb92z wrote on November 22, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Reply to comment by Cryptizard in Expert Proposes a Method For Telling if We All Live in a Computer Program by garden_frog

Unless the default state of sim objects is a wave function that is shared amongst all the objects (like a clock that is halved for some components and quartered for others) and then it’s more computation to disconnect it from the wave function. That is, the wave function is the absence of simulation details; distribution functions are easy to model (just a mean and standard deviation) whereas sampling from that distribution requires remembering the state when you sampled.

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle might be because there is a limit on the amount of memory a state can occupy, so there’s only enough for the either the position or the velocity.

If we’re going to make stuff up, we are allowed to make up anything. :)

Cryptizard t1_ixdcprb wrote on November 22, 2022 at 4:25 PM

But that is not how quantum distributions work. They are much more complex than just mean and deviation. There is a reason we can’t solve the schroedinger equation even for two particles. Shit gets complicated real fast.

purple_hamster66 t1_ixhz171 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 4:12 PM

We don’t have to solve the equations in this (hypothetical) system, just store the values that will define the wave evolution after the probability function will be sampled. None of that time-dependent or time-independent analysis needs to be done!

And, although these values have both time & space parts and are expressed as matrices, they are still just a mean in a complex & possibly curved space. One “simple” example of this is that, instead of PCA, principle component analysis, one can perform PGA, principle geodesic analysis, to account for curved space & time.