None of these "copy cats" is really a copy. It's just interesting to see the different approaches that are taken to the mathematical concept of predestination.
Are You Living in a Simulation?
http://simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
I'm not a big fan of the simulation/matrix concept although you'd think I was a pretty big fan of the hologram universe. The real problem with most of these is the failure to supply an adequate framework for either the origin of the process involved or the mechanism for the process involved.
EHT started with some really rough ideas for the framework, NLT provided some ideas about the process. Both had in common the lack of true randomness. Having read this simulation argument, I will apply logic to it and prove based on the concepts embodied, that we don't live in a simulation and that there is only a single universe, not multiple universes and you can disagree with what I say strongly as it rarely matters much, my theory being what it is, if I'm right, I'm not happy about it so I win either way, it just happens that I am right.
First let's talk about some large things and some small things. ADP to ADT, the Krebb cycle (excuse me Mr. Krebb for mispelling your name) is an interesting thing in that the use of these two chemicals, not always together, is the source of all living power on earth. /if there's an exception I don't know about, fine, but if not, there you have it. What is important in this is that amid the insanely complex miasma of life on this planet, there is consistency in an area. In all of the universe, ignoring ct5 and higher states and ct3 and lower states everything is made up a group of elements that fit on a chart that can be hung on a door. Just wait and I'll put up a blog post on the new version. That, however, is nothing, because all of those elements are made up of a single thing, energy, which despite its many forms is just what it is, (ct2 and 3) but something very malleable to things in ct4, both human and bacterial. This simplicity of and incredibly complex organization is worth remembering. It is worth noting that the "random" change which led to everything from dinosaurs to the bubonic plague
is the result of a chemical process that we now can manipulate to make apples that don't turn brown (which will probably lead to something that will make the black death look like a head cold).
Let's now look at something very large, the universe, past, present and future. This represents a huge amount of information, but a determinable amount of information (given the life of the universe) in at least an approximate form. We also have developed so much information processing capability that we take for granted the movement of what would have been the entire reservoir of human information 100 years ago so often that we can no longer print our encyclopedias or even our dictionaries because they would be too long and would change too regularly for the printed version to keep up. Information, then can multiply to whatever size it needs to without causing a systemic overload insofar as the universe itself is concerned but remains finite in a universe which does not go on forever but there is an incredible amount of complexity in a universe which HAS NO REASON TO EXIST. There really isn't a reason for all of this. We generally accept it blindly because we have no choice, we exist therefore we exist as it were, whether we're a matrix, a hologram or a singularity.
If the laws of the universe (physics, chemistry, etc) allow for the prediction of any isolated events with certainty, which they do, then a patter exists, even if it is too complicated for us to understand, and with infinite time and computing power and technological advancement without resort to witchcraft or religion which woudl allow for prediction, even accepting timelessness.
That everything "will" happen a given way makes it equally likely that it has happened already and that we are only experiencing this set of events in a false linearity It is equally likely one way or the other, there being no reason, no net change in information going from a continuous series of events to all the events happening together. Its the same amount of information, the same amount of energy can be conserved, the rules being the same whether it plays out once or is frozen in time playing out altogether. It is no different from having a book on a chess game and playing the chess game in the book out. While the amount of information in playing it is complicated the events, the game itself is the same unless it is varied and the book, if complicated enough, would replicate the events of the game. We would't say the book ceases to exist only because it isn't be read or that only one word at a time is read and having read it, we wouldn't say that the pages in the book have traveled to the past.
A single universe as complicated as this one is is statistically more likely than multiple universe each one equally complicated so that two would be twice as complex. If predictability according to the rules of physics applies to the multiple universes, then if both start at the same point, they would go to an identical point later on. True randomness cannot exist without some force outside of physics, some change in information according to some greater source. You will always act the exact same way from the same point. If you were able to determine the future with precision, you could change the rules, but in every universe, you would have to change them the same way. Random number generators use a process to "create randomness" and the laws of physics allow this to be replicated if identical circumstances apply. The universe is too precise, even in its complexity, to be totally random, even if the complexity is so great that we cannot figure out the pattern on a sufficiently grand scale.
We therefore do not likely live in simulation, but in a singularity, the most simple explanation for the universe where everything happens in a predetermined way is because everything happens at once, there is no ability for variation unless something outside of the singularity changes it. The only way to vary our universe is if there is a being which exists outside of the universe. God, if you will, can change the data, but if it does so, then the book of chess has been rewritten and remains the same otherwise except for the part which has been varied. The amount of energy necessary to transition the universe from one place to another with a jump such as this at a single point would be enormous if it was done on any scale. The death of a single bacteria would not necessarily change everything, but imagine what it would be like if ceaser were killed as an infant. World history would have a huge gap that would echo down the ages because the other events would continue to exist notwithstanding this one event. It is similar to a situation where you took the book on the chess game and mixed the pieces up, in the next chapter they would be back to where they started, the chapter. Such a universe would have a logical flaw in it that would be obvious. The lack of such flaws indicates that predictability is carved into the universe and that no force outside of the universe affects it, although one can imagine it possible just as one can imagine the defective chapter in the book. Perhaps praying has a place in a NLC universe, but if it does, it is mathematically sound only if there are multiple ways to approach time and dimension. That however, remains both possible and difficult to comprehend given the model for time and dimension of NLC. It isn't impossible, but it makes a little sense as does a universe which exists and we are almost stuck with accepting that. Almost.
And if the perception of change is where we exist, the perhaps the vibrations we experience on either side of the oblivion of everything happening at once was caused by god bumping into the singularity.
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