2 July, 2015:
A NASA says suggests that we are living inside a hologram created by an advanced species of aliens.
This was the intriguing theory first proposed by Nick Bostrom, Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School and there are several scientists who subscribe to this theory.
This theory makes us want to wonder what if everything we have done so far or will do is simply the product of a highly-advanced computer code? Every relationship, every sentiment, every memory could have been generated by banks of supercomputers.
If this is true then it would imply that we are living in a holographic world and everything around us, including ourselves is not real. Rich Terrile, director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory still stands by his opinion. “Right now the fastest NASA supercomputers are cranking away at about double the speed of the human brain,” says the NASA scientist.
However, there also those who think the Matrix theory is flawed. “The theory seems to be based on the assumption that ‘superminds’ would do things in much the same way as we would do them,” Professor Peter Millican, who teaches philosophy and computer science at Oxford University says.
