Astrophysical constraints on the simulation hypothesis for this Universe: why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation

 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full

Roger Penrose - Why Did Our Universe Begin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjZF6Pdrws

Why does the universe exist? | Jim Holt | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORUUqJd81M

The movie Brainstorm doesn't provide any proof of a larger cosmic reality. However, it does provide an interesting depiction of a VR sensory recording system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYcVmH0edk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Effects

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brainstorm-1983

"Michael vows to destroy his work and enlists the help of Karen and Hal. Michael and Karen head to the Pinehurst Resort, and realizing they are under surveillance, stage a fight that ends in Karen leaving for Hal's house. As the two feign reconciliation over the phone, Michael accesses the Brainstorm computer via another phone line while Karen hacks into the system, sabotaging the robots that manufacture the interface terminals. They run amok.

Karen shuts down the security system, locking the staff outside. Michael loads Lillian's tape. With the plant in chaos, Robert orders Michael's arrest.

Karen leaves to meet with Michael at a place important to them. Hal and his wife, Wendy, send the last of Karen's commands to the company computers, shutting down the plant.

Karen follows Michael to a phone booth at the Wright Brothers memorial. The tape plays. Michael bears witness to the afterlife, experiencing a vision of hell, then traveling from Earth and through the universe, even after the tape ends. He ultimately has visions of angels and departed souls flying into a great cosmic Light. Then he collapses. Karen, believing him dead or dying, screams at him, over and over, demanding that he stay with her. Awakening, weeping with joy, Michael points up and whispers, “Look at the stars!” Their embrace, enclosed in a memory bubble, floats into the night." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot

What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR

Brainstorm (1983 film)

In many ways, Brainstorm was far ahead of its time. Had there been a bigger budget and no tragic death of one of the main stars of the movie, Brainstorm might have been as popular as Tron.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brainstorm-1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a25654064/sci-fi-movie-brainstorm-natalie-wood-final-film/

Everything you need to know about Brainstorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBR-rmDHBQ0

The Flight Simulator and the Brainstorm movie...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/06/15/free-world-update-x-adds-united-states-and-us-territories-vistas-to-microsoft-flight-simulator

Microsoft_Flight_Simulator continues to grow in popularity.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1250410/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_Game_of_the_Year_Edition

https://www.ign.com/videos/microsoft-flight-simulator-halos-pelican-dropship-gameplay

https://www.pcgamer.com/flying-a-halo-spaceship-in-microsoft-flight-sim-shouldnt-work-this-well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Add-ons,_customisation,_and_community_involvement

https://www.flightsimulator.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Reception

What happens when flight simulator technology eventually becomes a seamless blend of AR and VR? 

A VR Life_simulation_game can depict any kind of song or story, person, City or world in any era. A bike or a car, an Airplane just Taking_Off or a Starship heading in for Shore_Leave. 

That's what the movie Brainstorm implies in a subtle way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot

Brainstorm ends at the Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial with the symbolism of VR being like Aviation,_as_an_emerging_technology. At the start of powered flying machines, the flight simulator-AR concept hadn't caught on yet in 1903, 1904 or 1905. The ending of Brainstorm in 1983 was a time when most people still had no concept of Virtual Reality.

https://www.twiddy.com/blog/north-carolina-movies-guide/Brainstorm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#Pioneer_Era_(1903-1914)

https://www.twiddy.com/blog/icons-of-the-outer-banks/wright-brothers-legacy-outer-banks

So, the Wright_brothers ideas and inventions lead to the first_powered_flight vehicles with a pilot. This would eventually require the development of the flight_simulator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#History_of_flight_simulation 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#Modern_high-end_flight_simulators

While the Wright brothers never went into flight_simulator R&D, another Wright several decades later, became interested in creating simulated cities and human sims... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright_(game_designer)

The ability to upload a brain into a computer versus AR and VR

 https://thenextweb.com/news/when-will-i-be-able-to-upload-my-brain-to-a-computer

A Brain Implant That Turns Your Thoughts Into Text | Tom Oxley | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fiaew7nDmE

Using A.I. to build a better human | The Age of A.I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrv8ga02VNg

Transferring one's mind or consciousness into a computer is still a Sci-Fi concept. However, a noninvasive Wi-Fi like connection is already around as a Brain-Computer_Interface. (BCI).

This was depicted in the movie, Brainstorm_(1983). A person could experience various moments from another person's life, even their death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot

Brainstorm has a subtle implication of Flight_simulator technology eventually becoming life simulator technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#Amateur_and_video_game_flight_simulation

https://www.twiddy.com/blog/north-carolina-movies-guide/#:~:text=Brainstorm%2C%20a%20sci-fi%20thriller,Monument%20in%20Kill%20Devil%20Hills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_simulator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#Religions_and_philosophies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazu_Rock_Carvings A nice symbolic depiction of the cosmic hard disk drive of life experience. Consciousness, energy and light. Is it a particle or a wave? Do you prefer a HDD or a SSD? https://www.pcmag.com/news/ssd-vs-hdd-whats-the-difference

More people are starting to consider that this world might be part of someone's game or simulation.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hdd-vs-ssd

"All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts..."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It 1599

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Origins

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44141381-the-simulation-hypothesis 

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

The Dead Zone

The_Dead_Zone is a wild psychic adventure for a guy that survives a car+crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(film)#Plot

Metaphysical implications about being able to change various potential outcomes.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-dead-zone-1983

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2568660/adapting-stephen-king-the-dead-zone-checking-status-ice-under-david-cronenberg-movie

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_zone

https://stephenking.com/works/movie/dead-zone.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407

https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(film)

If a psychic can occasionally see or sense things before they have happened, is that indicative that this world might be part of some kind of an interactive recording of time and space? Perhaps something like a cosmic VR program.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Brainstorm

Brainstorm

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)

A very interesting movie about the nature of reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Effects

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brainstorm-1983

http://basementrejects.com/review/brainstorm-1983

https://letterboxd.com/film/brainstorm-1983

Augmented Reality (AR)

The character, Geordi La Forge provides a good example of external & internal AR Visual_prosthesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISOR#VISOR

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Geordi_La_Forge_2379.jpg

www.cyberpunkreview.com/news-as-cyberpunk/the-first-chemical-circuit-developed-resistance-is-futile/

Augmented Reality (AR) 

http://mactonnies.com/trans.html, www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/epicenter-google-glass-ar, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/apple-facebook-project-glass/?grcc=33333Z98ZtrendingZ0,

www.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm, 

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/google-project-glas ,  

www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/brainstorm , 

www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-2009/minority-report

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http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2012/03/cosmic-computer-hypothesis.html 

Surrogates like the more spectacular Avatar depicts ones consciousness being linked to another body structure. www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/cyberpunk-theme/surrogates

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AR