Topic: Computers run on binary, and simulations would run on electrical impulses.
Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #124,276
Every atom is the result of electrical impulses (elctrons, neutrons). Everything runs on binary with an opposite reaction (light/dark, hot/cold, hard/soft etc). We could be in a simulation.
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@OP
> Every atom is the result of electrical impulses (elctrons, neutrons). Everything runs on binary with an opposite reaction (light/dark, hot/cold, hard/soft etc). We could be in a simulation.
Binary is an abstraction, voltages aren’t binary.
> Every atom is the result of electrical impulses (elctrons, neutrons). Everything runs on binary with an opposite reaction (light/dark, hot/cold, hard/soft etc). We could be in a simulation.
Binary is an abstraction, voltages aren’t binary.
Mr. Black Boi double-posted this 21 minutes ago, 1 minute later, 1 year after the original post[^] [v] #1,434,612
Even inside of a digital computer, the voltages aren’t actually binary, they have to create an arbitrary threshold voltage where above that voltage it will be a 1 and below that voltage it will be a 0, except they have a gap in the middle for reliability. The idea that voltages are actually binary is a simplification for creating logic diagrams.