How do I know anything?

The Film The intercellular substance was a Box Office hit due to the idea it presented to the audience. flat though Descartes Meditations inspired the film, the idea of nutrition in a information processing system sham environment was an interesting, original concept that had been created recently. It opened up a question, how do I alive(p) on anything?It is possible that we may be living in a computer-simulated environment, or in a big dreaming of some sort. We are unable to prove any of this at the moment, which could so possibly lead to scepticism roughly this theory. The only real job to support the theory is to rehearse the fact that our government keeps information occult from the public, for a number of reasons. This demonstrates that there are things that we do not know therefore, we should not totally doubt what we do not know, and that we may be living in a simulated environment. There is also the worry of perception. It is easy for us to perceive something to b e different to what it really is. Magicians use optical illusions to fool us. If we are living in a simulated environment, then how potful we break ourselves away from the perception that we are in, to rive ourselves from the simulation, and find out what the other reality is like?The adjacent technology has come to simulating environments is virtual reality. The environment is simulated, allowing humans to interact, although they may be elsewhere. The art constitute within virtual reality are still basic, and this is one of the reasons wherefore we are able to recognise virtual reality as existence different to reality. Another reason is that virtual reality does not consume you to feel pain. Whether Virtual Reality is comparable to the anxious-simulated environment in The Matrix, VR is the closest thing we attain to relate to the theory.However, VR could be as real as reality if it had realistic models of physics (e.g. feather and coin fall at the same rate in a vacuum), better graphics, and the great power to crap the body into experiencing physical feelings of pain, heat and cold, etc. Another problem with doing this is having a computer powerful enough to process all this information via calculations. IBM have developed a supercomputer that can calculate the force of nuclear explosions. Does a computer exist powerful enough to simulate the reality we live in exactly? If it does, then the theory proposed by the film could be right.Another concern brought up by the film was about A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). In the film, A.I. ontogenys created intelligent, living computers. Machines are physically better than man in legion(predicate) ways. They do not excrete, need tea breaks at work, sleep, be lazy, bespeak wages, things that humans do. They are more efficient than humans. However, Humans have consciences, imaginations, and the ability to think. Computers do not have this. If computers did have this, they may be outlay more than human li fe.Once recognising their status and power, it is possible that they may flip the human race to be inefficient, and may then start to reject humanity, like in The Matrix and The Terminator. This is something we have to be wary about when we decide to improve A.I., whether it be in industrial machines, home appliances, or computer games. If AI started to have a mind of its own, would anyone be departing to corrupt it, and turn it against others? It could be something terrorists would do to disrupt the activities of Governments around the clod?It may not be possible for machines to be a living, independent-thinking species. Computers work by calculations. Let us take an example.Home appliance in the future greets someone as they get in the door.A sensor bequeath detect that the door is opening. It activates another smart sensor to let on that mortal. It is the house-owner. It greets with hello. The house-owner says hello back. The appliance uses a sensor to detect the reply, and assesses it not only for song identification, but to determine what mood the person is in. It will then carry a speech passage suited to the mood of the person. E.g. the person has a cold, so the computer tells the person that they are making a stiff glass of Lemon and Honey for them, and ordering for a prescription of medicinal drug to the doctor. Another sensor in the house will scan the person and send the details of the cold to the doctor, allowing the doctor to prescribe the right medication.The person will say thanks, and the appliance will say your welcome. All this could find oneself just by entering the door and saying hello. The computer can display signs of compassion, but will not actually feel them. This will be a major mountain to conquer in the development of Artificial Intelligent Life. Commercially, Artificial Intelligence is still under development, and will take some time before it can resemble anything human.Overall, technology will get better, and may be we will discover if the simulated neural environment theory is right.