Relativity of reality

As to the question: whether are we living in a simulated reality or a 'real' one, the answer may be 'indistinguishable', in principle. This is something about the 'relativity of reality'. Recall the relativity principle in physics, which is mainly about the relativity of motion, stating that the motion has no absolute meaning. To say if something is in motion or rest, one must take some reference frame. Without a reference frame, one cannot tell the state of being in rest or in uniform motion. Similar thing happens here for reality, meaning that without a reference world, one cannot tell the world one is living in is real or a simulated one. Therefore, there is no absolute meaning for reality. The principle of relativity of reality is a generalization of the principle in special relativity or general relativity. Similar to the situation in special relativity or general relativity, there are also two fundamental principles here for the relativity of reality.

1. All worlds are the same real.
2. Simulated events and simulating events coexist.

The first principle says that the reality is relative and thus viewpoint (observer) dependent. For a world, one calls it reality or virtuality depends on whether one lives in it: one calls the world one lives in reality, and other worlds virtuality. The first principle, maybe called 'same real principle', is a strong proposition, stating that all worlds are equal in being reality, even for partially simulated worlds. Even in a partially simulated world, if there are living beings, they feel the same level of reality just as what we feel here. Therefore, there is no absolutely real world just as there is no absolutely resting system. In this context, the question of "whether are we living in a simulated reality or a 'real' one" is meaningless, because they are indistinguishable in principle. 'same real principle' doesn't mean that we cannot differentiate a concrete computer simulation from our own world, since when we are talking about a computer simulation, we already have a reference world (the world we are in). With a reference world, the other one is of course differentiatable. The reference world can be a sub-world (the world simulated by a simulator in the current world) or a super-world (the world in which there is a simulator simulating the current world).

The second principle states a fact, maybe called 'coexistence principle'. Nowadays, there are mainly two kinds of simulators available: computers and human brains. For computers, suppose there is a glinting ball in the simulated world by a computer, the counterpart of it in the simulating world is the combination of zeros and ones (high and low electrical levels) of the running computer's circuits. In fact, for anything in the simulated world, there is its counterpart (combination of high and low electrical levels of the running computer's circuits) in the simulating world. For human brains, suppose there is an apple in someone's imagination, the counterpart of it in the material world is the biochemical reactions in one's brain. In fact, for anything in one's imagination, there is its counterpart (biochemical reactions, for example) in the material world. In sum, simulated events and simulating events coexist. The second principle says "simulated events and simulating events coexist", which doesn't mean that simulated events and simulating events exist in the same form. Actually, they can be quite different in existence form. Taking the above-mentioned apple in someone's imagination as an example, its existing form in the simulated world is a apple, while the existing form of its counterpart in the simulating world is biochemical reactions in someone's brain.

The above two principles about simulation relationship (the relationship between simulating and simulated) unify the three kinds of worlds: the material world (where we are), the mind world (imagination, dreaming), and the world in computer simulation. Based on the above two principles, the space-time transformation between two across-reality objects (one is in real world and the other is in virtual world) was supposed, which is an example of interreality (mixed reality) system. The first 'interreality physics' experiment may be the one conducted by V. Gintautas and A. W. Hubler, where a mixed-reality correlation between two pendula (one is real and the other is virtual) was indeed observed. Source:Wikipedia

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