Originally Posted by Invader Tech
Apologies. I can be clearer. If we take your original statement:
"A virtual reality would be limited to the paradigm of causality and logical programming."
You were making it sound as if this were a defining characteristic of the virtual world that set it apart from our real-physical world. I was hoping you could explain further, as I understand "causality" to mean no more than "cause and effect", and "logical programming" to mean no more than "all equations must balance". Since I'm no programmer, can you tell me in greater detail what those two terms mean that makes them specific only to programs?
Causality is a limited paradigm of science and it is fundamentally related to perception of "events". In a greater context of Reality, causality is non-existent. It is comparable to state gravity as the cause of the apple falling, but gravity can be seen in a greater context to provide potentiality for the "falling". The apple wasn't caused to fall, it merely fell under the right conditions; and the conditions were brought about by an infinite amount of others. The main condition is the gravitational force, however that is not the "cause". The main condition is perceived as holding sequential relationship, but this occurs only within perception.
Anyway, this is only slightly related to consciousness, which is nonlinear; all-present and absolute. It provides the capacity for subjective "awareness", which is not definable or rational. This is of higher dimension than the objective, linear existence of three; within which the world identifies.
Programming (software or electrical), although I am unfamiliar with it specifically, functions logically via mathematics. Maths is generally linear; it provides numbers, definitions, measurements, graphs, tables, discrete values, functions, equations and so on. Programming would hold that something needs direct paths and complex patterns of mathematical or symbolic relationship. But how can you program that which is spontaneous? How can you direct something while taking directly into account absolutely everything else that falls within that context? What can decide a chain of events, and within what realm of authority? These are up to the nonlinear field of consciousness, which is not localizable and thusly will encompass all existence, within all life and being. To program or define something like this would be like a small box trying to fill the room it is in, or a person trying to touch the sky upon a long ladder.
Also, a robotic "organism" may not be able to grow and seek survival, because it did not arise "naturally" as an intelligent consequence of evolution, nor does it hold any consciousness; the capacity to experience and feel.
A digital simulation is also limited to the context within which it is provided, rendering many simulations as limited and only holding truth to a certain hypothetical extent, and not to a greater, realistic extent. (Edit: I guess I'm emphasizing the importance of quantum reality, over the reality of classical physics, which is more limited and on different scale of observation/phenomena).
What comes to mind in exception is a "quantum computer", but I doubt its possible existence, and that a human intelligence is capable of "programming" it. Also, a robot (and a human) would be totally different than a human with robotic or electrically compatible parts.
Originally Posted by Invader Tech
I agree with the first sentence so far, and don't understand the second one, heh.
"Thinking or linear sequences occur within the non-linear context."
How does that work exactly? I'm not arguing this, I just honestly don't know. If the explanation is too lengthy, any recommendations for a good article regarding this in particle will do.
Coupled with my response above, here is an image I have once shown already:
I hope this is overall helpful.
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