God in effect is the ultimate computer programmer who has created the perfect and potentially unique conditions for life to thrive, which would finally answer the head-scratching Fermi Paradox, which simply asks the question “where is everybody else” in our universe of billions of galaxies. Simulation Theory proponents believe that given this trajectory, it’s not farfetched to believe that future generations will have created extraordinarily sophisticated simulations, and we may already be living in one. Unnerving, particularly given that Kurzweil has been accurate on pretty much every prediction he has made over his career. In effect, Kurzweil believes that non-biological computation will exceed the "capacity of all living biological human intelligence", and in effect we will become one with the Internet, living on in perpetuity in artificial form. Kurzweil, who now works at Google, has long predicted the Singularity to occur by 2045. Pick a law…Moore’s, Vinge’s, Kurzweil’s….and it all leads to the same conclusion: technology is advancing at an extraordinary, exponential rate. Technology is advancing at such a pace that we barely blink when spacecraft beam back photos of Pluto from 150 million km away, fishing rods are made out of super material like graphene, advanced DNA decoding test kits are available for a few hundred dollars, and your car drives for you. Things have moved on dramatically from those analogue days of shag carpet, rabbit-eared TV sets with three channels, rotary dial phones, and beautiful faux wood paneled Atari consoles. “If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality.” And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality,” said Musk. Now 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. Forty years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. As Elon Musk recently commented, “There’s a billion to one chance we’re living in base reality. Sounds crazy, until you realize that super-smart people like Elon Musk and a load of technologists and physicists are increasingly embracing “Simulation Theory” as the only rational explanation of our universe. So in effect we have “already seen” what we are experiencing, just in a previous simulation. These contrarians believe that Déjà vu is a brief glimpse into reality, or more specific artificial reality, a brief glitch in a giant computer simulation just like in the film The Matrix. However, there is a growing body of scientists who are questioning whether Déjà vu is something else much more powerful. In short, it’s not a mystical prophecy or out-of-body experience, but just your brain playing a trick on you. Scientist believe Déjà vu is created by a neurological anomaly related to an improper electrical discharge in the brain. Anyone who has experienced it can tell you it brings a strange sensation that you have already lived that exact moment in another time, although in most cases you can’t pinpoint the date or location. Déjà vu literally means “already seen” in French. Send us feedback about these examples.A survey in 2004 discovered that nearly two-thirds of us have experienced Déjà vu at some point in our lives. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'déjà vu.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 July 2022 See More 2023 Jason Earles is experiencing deja vu. 2021 Her choice of hat, in particular, is giving us a case of fashion deja vu. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ravens fans may be feeling deja vu. RCHP, as the band is also known, performed a stadium gig here with Thundercat last July. James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023 At least some fans who attend Friday night’s Snapdragon Stadium concert by Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Mars Volta and Thundercat are likely to feel a partial sense of deja vu. Susan Page, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023 Tuesday’s filing brought fresh disruption to City Hall, where staffers described a sense of deja vu. Kara Nesvig, Allure, 26 June 2023 But in the shorter term, likely stretching past the next presidential election, the historic development had an air of deja vu − of Trump enmeshed in yet another controversy that would have ended the public career of almost anyone else. Seth Borenstein and Melina Walling, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023 Hailey Bieber's latest beauty look just gave me serious deja vu. Recent Examples on the Web Bomba had deja vu from San Francisco, where the air was so thick with smoke people had to mask up.
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