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Couldn’t we create a computer program that simulated societies and evolution and then hit fast forward and let it cure all of our diseases , make technological breakthroughs , figure out everything for us hahaha ? Couldn’t we achieve this? We have infinite power of mind sooooo

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Most computer programs are not compressible.  In other words, you can only calculate the end result by running that specific program, no other program will do it for you. So there are many programs which can't be fast forwarded.

The second problem is that the information content of society and evolution is immense, possibly even infinite. The best you could do with a computer program is to emulate a society statistically, no computer has the storage capacity you would need. Also with that amount of information, you would need a huge supercomputer, which would be a hungry power beast.

Lastly, society and evolution is not a closed system. Do you include weather events, hurricanes, earthquakes in your simulation? Do you limit yourself to Earth, what about the Sun and space weather and meteorites strikes and so on? In fact do you need to simulate the Earth itself as well? Any simulation would be a chaotic one with infinite sensitivty to initial conditions. We can't even predict the weather next month with any certainty at the moment.

The infinite mind is not a finite computer. In short the answer is sadly: no.


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