Well as the name of my blog suggest I am a huge fan of Matrix triology- the first two parts being the best. The concept of matrix was not alien to me when i saw the movie for the first time but i must admit I was fully amazed and entertained by it. However being an inhabitant of a technology driven world its not hard to imagine building blocks for a fully functional 'Matrix'. A matrix by definition is a simulated environment where an inhabaitant will never be aware of the simulation. Now the word aware digs its way to human consciousness. Genetically biologists have concluded that the human consciousness is a recent developmement not for than few thousand years old. We became self aware as our brain grew complex so we can conclude that complexity is directly proportional to consciousness.
Now if we want to create a matrix of our own what will we require. Let us write down few of the elements that we feel should be part of our matrix.
1) Self aware conscious entities.
2) Self aware but non conscious entities.
3) Inert structural entities.
4) Set of physical laws.
5) Evolving laws for the system and the entity interaction rule set.
If we look at the the world around we can easily find servers churning more than 10^12 bytes of data. With the explosion of data and information in next few years we will reach the complexity of human brain. So for creating a matrix we will need a system which can churn out a huge amount of data for us. So such a system will require a constant source of energy. Now what we will need is the physical laws joining the raw data to meaning ful information. Now to reduce our processing cost what we will do is to replicate structures thus we will form tiny possible units which will join in zillion different ways to form higher structural units. This method will reduce the processing cost of data to a bare minimum. The higher level structures will have encapsulated interfaces and interacting mechanisms but everything will be broken down to base units during processing. So for creating say structure like earth what we will do is process our basic units to form higher structure. Interpolate the data to form complex structures so we save on power there and thus all the entities in our matrix will have a common unifying unit. The structures will operate as per the code governing physical laws and the underlying algorithm will cause the system to process more data and grow complex. Once the complexity crosses threshold it will form consciousness and the entity will be able to appreciate its existence and the the system as a whole. We can have various development cycles, patterns and curves for the self aware entities. The less powerful of them will have a more or less linear development cycle thus saving us on processing. The self aware and inert components will interact and normal cycle will determine things governing beginning and end. To reduce CPU usage we can have some fixed number of evolving algorithms governing the evolution and can be uniform across the planet.
To simulate complex star and galactic system we can have initially a weak interface available to the conscious entities. As the evolution enhances the complexity we can start extrapolating basic structures. We can however destroy the entities as and when they cross there threshold of knowledge base.
In our discussion as of now we have only discussed about the processing and not the memory and storage. The data storage and retreival should use highly efficient algorithms and also we should have a large RAM to keep the in-system data intact and running. Algorithms will however have side effect and mathematical anamolies which will cause unexplained events and structures like ghosts and devils. This will spice up our Matrix.
The above discussion is not entirely hypothetical. We know the number of calculations a human brain make and multiplying that with 6 billion will give us total processing requirement for all human brains. Add some processing power for interpolating micro and mega components and we are ready with a processor to simulate matrix.
All the above bull shit bring us to the conclusion that matrix can be constructed just as any other system and who knows we may be living in one of it. But frankly if you ask me
Who cares???
Now if we want to create a matrix of our own what will we require. Let us write down few of the elements that we feel should be part of our matrix.
1) Self aware conscious entities.
2) Self aware but non conscious entities.
3) Inert structural entities.
4) Set of physical laws.
5) Evolving laws for the system and the entity interaction rule set.
If we look at the the world around we can easily find servers churning more than 10^12 bytes of data. With the explosion of data and information in next few years we will reach the complexity of human brain. So for creating a matrix we will need a system which can churn out a huge amount of data for us. So such a system will require a constant source of energy. Now what we will need is the physical laws joining the raw data to meaning ful information. Now to reduce our processing cost what we will do is to replicate structures thus we will form tiny possible units which will join in zillion different ways to form higher structural units. This method will reduce the processing cost of data to a bare minimum. The higher level structures will have encapsulated interfaces and interacting mechanisms but everything will be broken down to base units during processing. So for creating say structure like earth what we will do is process our basic units to form higher structure. Interpolate the data to form complex structures so we save on power there and thus all the entities in our matrix will have a common unifying unit. The structures will operate as per the code governing physical laws and the underlying algorithm will cause the system to process more data and grow complex. Once the complexity crosses threshold it will form consciousness and the entity will be able to appreciate its existence and the the system as a whole. We can have various development cycles, patterns and curves for the self aware entities. The less powerful of them will have a more or less linear development cycle thus saving us on processing. The self aware and inert components will interact and normal cycle will determine things governing beginning and end. To reduce CPU usage we can have some fixed number of evolving algorithms governing the evolution and can be uniform across the planet.
To simulate complex star and galactic system we can have initially a weak interface available to the conscious entities. As the evolution enhances the complexity we can start extrapolating basic structures. We can however destroy the entities as and when they cross there threshold of knowledge base.
In our discussion as of now we have only discussed about the processing and not the memory and storage. The data storage and retreival should use highly efficient algorithms and also we should have a large RAM to keep the in-system data intact and running. Algorithms will however have side effect and mathematical anamolies which will cause unexplained events and structures like ghosts and devils. This will spice up our Matrix.
The above discussion is not entirely hypothetical. We know the number of calculations a human brain make and multiplying that with 6 billion will give us total processing requirement for all human brains. Add some processing power for interpolating micro and mega components and we are ready with a processor to simulate matrix.
All the above bull shit bring us to the conclusion that matrix can be constructed just as any other system and who knows we may be living in one of it. But frankly if you ask me
Who cares???
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