Author/Han Shujie
The discussion of the geometric progression of the universe is underway.
What exactly is meta universe ? How to understand the meta universe?
The most basic attribute of the meta universe is the digital "virtual world", or more accurately, the "virtual reality".
The "virtual" here, can either simulate the "real" world, or present the unrealized, creative and imaginative rules and activities that cannot be achieved in the "real world"; either Intertwined with the "real world", it can also be relatively independent or even completely independent of the "real" world.
The "real" here refers to an immersive real experience.
meta-universe is " virtual reality ", " virtual reality " is only a part of "virtual reality".
Why do I put the "virtual world" and "real world" in quotation marks?
Because there is a more fundamental question behind this:
What is virtual? What is reality (real)? What is the relationship between virtual and reality?
Is virtual reality? And is reality virtual?
It can be said that Virtuality, reality and the relationship between the two are the fundamental issue of the "metacosmic philosophy" and also the fundamental issue of the metauniverse.
In human history, there are many brilliant flowers of thought that are discussing the relationship between virtual and reality. This has also become the source of thought for understanding and constructing the meta-universe.
Let's invite everyone to join me on a journey of thought adventure.
1. Zhuangzi: "Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly"
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"The former Zhuang Zhou dreamed of Hu Die, lifelike Hu Die, and self-consciousness! I don't know Zhou Ye. I don’t know that Zhou’s dream is Hu Die and Hu Die’s dream is Zhou Yu? Zhou and Hu Die must be divided. This is called materialization."
Has it become a butterfly, or has it become Zhuangzi in a dream? Is it a butterfly dreaming at this moment, or is it reminiscent of the dream in reality?
"Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly" vividly puts forward a very important topic in the history of philosophy and thought: how to distinguish between dream and reality? How do you know that the so-called "reality" is not a virtual dream?
At the same time, on this issue, Zhuangzi also explained his own point of view, that is, the idea of "materialization".
The so-called "materialization" usually refers to the spiritual realm of " ” expressed by Zhuangzi. The famous contemporary scholar Chen Guying interprets it as " 's dissolution of the boundary between material and self,All things melt into one ". This is the embodiment of Zhuangzi’s thoughts of Qi all things, Qi Mengjue, life and death, and the unity of nature and man.
In other words, dream (virtual) is reality, reality is dream (Virtual).
2. Hinduism: " " thinking
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The free translation is "illusion", the meaning of illusion . Maya is a very important concept in Indian religious philosophy, which first appeared in the ancient Indian classics " Rigveda" and "Upanishad"
In the Hindu world view, "Brahma" appears in the world as "illusion", that is, Maya. The world is not real, but an illusion created by "Brahma" through its magical power.
The world of experience is an impermanent, false illusion,Only by breaking away from the "illusion" can one realize the "Brahma", and only by breaking away from the impermanent world of illusion and disillusionment, and achieving the state of unity with Brahman ("Brahma and I are one", "Brahma and I are one") can they be free from rebirth. The suffering, the liberation of oneself, and even eternal life.
As the verse of the "Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra" says: " has everything to do, such as a dream bubble , like dew and like electricity".
3. Plato: "Cave" fable
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「 In the deep cave, there is a group of imprisoned slaves. They cannot see behind or see each other, so they can only stare at the front wall. Behind them is a block. The low wall, behind the low wall, there was another group of people holding torches and various objects. The fire light projected the shadows of these objects onto the wall that the slaves could see, and the slaves used this to identify the objects and communicate with each other. These things are named. In their eyes, these shadows are real things.
until one day,A slave broke free from the shackles. He first saw the firelight and these objects, and then he tried to crawl out of the cave to get outside, and then it took a long time to get used to the sunlight and see the outside world clearly. When he returned to the cave and tried to tell his companions "what is the real world", he was ridiculed by his companions, saying that he had broken his eyes outside and couldn't even see things on the wall, and said What the real world outside. "
Plato believes that everything we perceive is just "simulation", just like the "shadows" seen by cave slaves, the world of feeling, experience, and phenomena is "shadow" Simulated” and the world of rational concepts is “essential, unchanging and real”.
4. Descartes: "Devil" hypothesis
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"If there is a demon, it can modify and deceive my five senses at will. If we see, smell, hear, taste, touch, Can be modified by this demon, so how can I determine whether I am being deceived by this demon? If I am inevitably deceived by the demon, I cannot tell whether reality is an illusion created by the devil or the truth.So, is there anything that can be determined to be real?
"From this I assume that everything I see in is false, and I believe that everything that my deceptive memory presents to me is unreal. I thought I didn’t feel. Objects, shapes, extension and location are just my mind’s fiction. So what else can be considered real? There may not be anything in this world. There is no doubt. "
and Descartes’ logic to solve this problem is:
thinking contains a thinking person, that is, a thinking person contains a doubt. Or spiritual entity. Doubt means thinking, thinking means existence, I think so I am.
5, Putnam: "Brain in the Tank"
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"A person (you can assume that it is yourself) has been operated on by an evil scientist, and his brain is removed from the body The upper part was cut down and placed in a tank containing a nutrient solution for maintaining brain survival. The nerve endings of the brain are connected to a computer, and this computer sends information to the brain according to the program, so that he can maintain the illusion of everything. For him In other words, it seems that people, objects, and the sky still exist, and their own movements and physical sensations can be input. This brain can also be input or intercepted memories (intercepting the memory of brain surgery, and then inputting various environments that he may experience, Daily life). He can even be input code and'feel' that he is reading an interesting and absurd text here."
The question is, " how do you guarantee that you are not here? In this dilemma? "
Putnam and many thinkers have tried to make a logical argument for whether we are "brains in a tank". But like other thought experiments, the hypothesis of "brain in a tank" is more important for us to think about the relationship between illusion and reality.
6, Musk: "matrix simulation" hypothesis
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Musk has mentioned matrix-style simulation on different occasions.
The basic logic of the matrix simulation hypothesis is:
The history of human civilization is less than 10,000 years, and our universe has a history of nearly 14 billion years. Many civilizations have arisen in the universe and have reached a very advanced level. Older and higher civilizations are likely to be our creators.
"From a statistical point of view, in such a long period of time, it is very likely that a civilization will exist, and they have found a very reliable simulation method. Once this situation exists, then they build their own Virtual multi-space is just a matter of time.”
Imagine that less than 10,000 years of human civilization has been advancing towards the "meta universe", so in 14 billion years, how many more advanced civilizations might there be? How many "meta universe" or higher forms of "universe" have been created?
The so-called "reality" we live in is probably created or simulated by a higher civilization. Like human creation games, human civilization is likely to be part of many simulated civilizations.
7. Conclusion and some thoughts
(1) What is a meta universe?
The essence of the meta universe is "virtual-real","Virtual reality" is only a part of "virtual reality". This "reality" is not to be the same as our "real" world, is to experience: the same as the "real".
Therefore, is the basic feature and a sign of maturity in the meta-universe, which is a digital and immersive "real" experience.
The meta-universe will be a long-term dynamic and iterative development process. Many attributes and characteristics are constantly superimposed and grown, and it is still in the concept and embryonic stage. The current meta-universe concept is more of old wine in new bottles.
But the meta universe is undoubtedly one of the great development directions of human history, although it is very primitive now, fortunately, every stage of development has social and commercial values at every stage. Of course, it is inevitable that every stage also has leeks in every stage.
(2) Life is just experience
If emptiness is color, color is emptiness, illusion is reality, reality is illusion, what is reality, and reality
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The only "real" thing is experience and thinking (thinking can also be understood as an experience).
Whether we are in the "virtual world" or in the "real world", and whether we can distinguish between virtual and reality, all we get is experience.
We experience the real, which is the real. This is Descartes' principle of "I think, therefore I am". This is also the principle of Wang Yangming "There is nothing outside the heart". The universe is my heart, and my heart is the universe.
Of course, experience and hedonism are completely different things.
(3) The opening and switching of multidimensional space
If we are in a kind of advanced civilization virtual universe, To create our own “virtual world” meta-universe, will the next level of meta-universe be created in the meta-universe we create?
is like a "Russian doll".
Multi-layer "meta universe" (multi-dimensional space, multi-dimensional universe) can be opened and switched: since it is not clear where is the "real world",Where is the virtual world (how to distinguish it?), then, you want to experience in which world, you are willing to stay in which world.
In the movie " Inception ", there are designs of multiple dreams, and many people are willing to stay in the world of dreams. In the movie " ", people in the virtual world don't know that they are created virtual by others. They naturally think that they are real, and they have developed and created a virtual world in their own world. Similarly, " Out of Control Player " released this year.
(4) Digital immortality
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The American drama " uploads new life" tells about the future society. When your body is about to die, you can upload all your memories and consciousness to the digital virtual space. The digital space itself is another human society, and you can still Interact with the visualized scenes of relatives and friends in real space at any time,In order to achieve digital immortality.
If all memories and consciousness can be "uploaded", then they can also be "downloaded". All we need is a carbon-based body created by cloning, 3D printing, or some higher technology, as a carrier for soul implantation and consciousness download.
certainly sounds science fiction now, but how much science fiction has become a reality in history.
As long as human beings do not perish, imagination and creativity do not stop, everything is possible.
All your doubts and impossibility are just technological issues. As long as mankind is immortal, all scientific and technological issues are a matter of time.
The meta universe has unlimited imagination, and human beings have also come to the crossroads of evolution.
What choice will you make?
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