Luonnontieteellinen teoria?
OF COURSE you thought The Matrix was fiction. But only because you were meant to. Do you think they're stupid enough to let us realise what's really going on?Ehkä universumiamme ei olekaan oikeasti olemassa. Elämäsi saattaa todellisuudessa olla jonkun tulevaisuudessa olevan ihmisen jälkeen tulevan olennon kehittämä tietokoneohjelma. Näin on ainakin raportoitu New Scientist-tiedelehdessä.
It usually takes a conspiracy theorist to hatch such a far-fetched plot. But Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale University, and he believes the Hollywood blockbuster is closer to the truth than many of us would care to believe. He's done the calculations, and he reckons that we could well be living inside a simulation.
That's right. Your life might actually be a computer program developed by a post-human society living in what you think of as the future.
New Scientist listasi vajaa viikko sitten kyseisen teorian kymmenen oudoimman kosmologisen teorian joukkoon.
New Scientistissä näkemys esiteltiin kosmologisena vaihtoehtoteoriana. Mutta
millaisen tieteen määritelmän mukaan tuollainen Matrix-hypoteesi on luonnontieteellinen teoria?
