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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Kalbfus" data-source="post: 7515735" data-attributes="member: 6972267"><p>How do you mix fantasy with science fiction? One way is to dumb down the science to a point where it doesn't matter anymore, and you end up with giant space slugs living in asteroids and snacking on starship. Another approach is to make the fantasy into science fiction, one of the best ways to do that is to make the whole thing into a computer simulation. This is known as the simulation hypothesis. We don`t know what computer it's running on, As we're part of the simulation, this maybe true of us right now in the supposed real world. It would explain the Fermi paradox for instance, why we haven't discovered any extraterrestrial civilizations. (They are running on different simulations from us, and therefore cannot interact with us until the programmers want them to.</p><p>The same could be said of Toril, it is another world with humans on it and other intelligent creatures, running under a different set of rules, and then one day the programmer decides that it is time to allow the Torilians to interact with the Earthlings, so he rewrites both programs so both planets exist within the same simulation. You can call the "programmer" Ao if you like. Ao is just a nerdy programmer who likes to play God with his simulations.</p><p>I did not mean to move the goalposts so to speak, if I did, then I'm sorry for the confusion.</p><p>How does one reveal that the Universe in a setting is actually a simulation? I think in the first instance you can do what they did in the Matrix and act like what is in the simulation is real, and then you reveal it not to be. A computer can simulate Earth with all of its hard science and Toril with its fantasy and magic equally well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Kalbfus, post: 7515735, member: 6972267"] How do you mix fantasy with science fiction? One way is to dumb down the science to a point where it doesn't matter anymore, and you end up with giant space slugs living in asteroids and snacking on starship. Another approach is to make the fantasy into science fiction, one of the best ways to do that is to make the whole thing into a computer simulation. This is known as the simulation hypothesis. We don`t know what computer it's running on, As we're part of the simulation, this maybe true of us right now in the supposed real world. It would explain the Fermi paradox for instance, why we haven't discovered any extraterrestrial civilizations. (They are running on different simulations from us, and therefore cannot interact with us until the programmers want them to. The same could be said of Toril, it is another world with humans on it and other intelligent creatures, running under a different set of rules, and then one day the programmer decides that it is time to allow the Torilians to interact with the Earthlings, so he rewrites both programs so both planets exist within the same simulation. You can call the "programmer" Ao if you like. Ao is just a nerdy programmer who likes to play God with his simulations. I did not mean to move the goalposts so to speak, if I did, then I'm sorry for the confusion. How does one reveal that the Universe in a setting is actually a simulation? I think in the first instance you can do what they did in the Matrix and act like what is in the simulation is real, and then you reveal it not to be. A computer can simulate Earth with all of its hard science and Toril with its fantasy and magic equally well. [/QUOTE]
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