Virtual worlds are worlds that are integrated into our physical worlds. Would you live in a virtual universe where you could travel to virtual worlds without any intervention, if you could live for 1,000 years [known time a human could live in such a world]
2007-05-18 13:32:13 · 21 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In philosophy, the brain in a vat is any of a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. It is drawn from the idea, common to many science fiction stories, that a mad scientist might remove a person's brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives.
According to such stories, the computer would then be simulating a virtual reality (including appropriate responses to the brain's own output) and the person with the "disembodied" brain would continue to have perfectly normal conscious experiences without these being related to objects or events in the real world.
2007-05-18 13:41:34 · answer #1 · answered by Edward 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Virtual means "does not in reality exist."
Most all virtual creations are contained within storage media and played back on various types of machinery. So the creation is only good for the life of the storage media such as recording tape, plastic and optical disks, semi-conductor chips, and so forth. As those devices deteriorate, so do the virtual creations decay and become obsolete. Try playing any of the millions of Pac Man 5 1/4 Inch floppy disks right now.
Most likely you will not be able to do that because your machine does not accept 5 1/4 floppies, or the floppy is not compatable with Windows XP or Windows 2000.
So "if" we live in a virtual world, our existance is most likely limited to about the next seven years maximum. That is the life span of current media systems. Think back:
78 RPM Records
45 RPM Records
33 RPM Records
Magnetic Reel to Reel Tapes
8 Track Tapes
Cassette Tapes
5 1/4 Inch Floppy Disks
3 Inch Floppy Disks
CD's
R/W CD's
VHS Tapes
DVD's
Yes, all about 7 years of life span, then into the junk pile...
2007-05-18 14:56:52 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
>Is it possible we live in a virtual universe, possibly on a virtual planet [earth]?
It certainly is. You can look here for more information on the subject:
http://www.simulation-argument.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
>Would you live in a virtual universe where you could travel to virtual worlds without any intervention, if you could live for 1,000 years [known time a human could live in such a world]
That depends. In the near future, I might opt to remain in our universe just to wait and see if the technology improves. In the far future, quite possibly I would.
2007-05-18 13:54:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a word No!! We will never get to such a state of awareness in our short time here on this planet. Maybe some time in the future on another cycle through the Bang/Crunch series. We have forever though and will not know anything of the cold portions of the series. It is much like the long sleep isn't it.
2007-05-18 13:43:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go rent the movie "The Thirteenth Floor". It's a fictional story on this subject. In 15 to 50 years we'll have the technology to upload our minds into a cyber world indistinguishable from the real world. Once there, anything goes.
2007-05-18 13:43:20 · answer #5 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are already living in a kind of virtual world, we live in a state of energy that only resume itself in this kind of dimension... So not sure that it is that funny to try another virtual world...
2007-05-18 17:57:30 · answer #6 · answered by Jedi squirrels 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virtual reality, for example, strikes me as a high-tech version of shamanism.
I see more new in the old than the prophets of technotopia :)
2007-05-18 13:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by 21 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would probably take years to program, once we have the necessary computing power and its cheaply available, it could be done, imagine going to the shops and buying your own universe in 30 or 40 years :)
2016-05-17 05:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by tamra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Virtual particles are thought to exist, so why not virtual atoms, virtual molecules, virtual DNA, etc...
2007-05-18 14:12:35 · answer #9 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sound a bit like the Matrix to me but a interesting philosophical question no the less, anything is possible.
2007-05-18 13:36:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋