〈 Berger | Dillon 〉

@IntertialObservr "Only when you look" aside, what's your general opinion about the whole simulation theory?

i think it's not a very interesting road to go down

this has nothing to do with wave function collapse, it has to do with a quantum state interacting with an external system.. the reason a detection changes the interference pattern is because you're blasting the particle with a photon

He also implies that humans are somehow “special observers” in this universe - otherwise anything would cause an object to be rendered - which is just silly.

exactly

Sounds like a flimsy analogy but not too egregious imo From Wiki article on Copenhagen interpretation: "physical systems generally do not have definite properties prior to being measured" (maybe he should've said measured vs. observed?) Then again you're the physicist

yes he should have said measured instead

Maybe wrong, but could there be some truth in it? I've always seen the finite speed of light as a sign of limited bandwidth of information flow in the universe. The analogy doesn't imply the universe is actually a computer.

i think you're right and that something like this would be much more supported by relativity than quantum mechanics