I’m going to have a little fun with this one.  This theory is both insane and ingenious:

The Simulation Hypothesis is so much fun to think about (at least for me).  Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, proposes a theory that claims that our life as we know it is nothing more than a computer simulation.  Basically, we are all just living in a more advanced “Sims” game inside a supercomputer of one of our future descendants.  It can be a bit confusing. 

Ok, think about how much technology has advanced in the past 100 years.  What about the past 20 years?  What about the past 10 years?  Nowadays, almost everyone carries around a pocket-sized, all-in-one camera/computer/music player/cell phone.  Technology is advancing exponentially.  Imagine how advanced computers will be in 50 years or 500 years.  In the future, computers will become so advanced that our future descendants will have enough computer power and programming skills to be able to create “ancestor simulations.”  These would be simulations of the simulators’ ancestors (i.e. people who are alive now).  The simulation world would be detailed enough for the simulated minds to be conscious and have the same lived experiences.  It could happen in 50 years or 10 million years, either way it wouldn’t matter to us (the ones who are living the simulation).  Bostrom supports his hypothesis by claiming at least 1 of the follow 3 things must be true:

1. The future civilization never attains the technology to run simulations (perhaps because it self-destructs before reaching that stage).

2. When people do reach that level of technological development, these posthumans decide not to run the simulations.

3. We are living a computer simulation.

It’s all very scary, exciting, and philosophical.   With thinking like that, it’s impossible to prove we are not living a simulation inside a computer of our “God” who happens to be a geeky, zit-faced dude living in his mom’s basement.

However, the argument is also infinite.  Supporting Bostrom’s argument, the geeks, who are simulating our lives, must also be living in a simulated world, under the control of even more advanced technology.  This goes on to infinity.

If you read this entire thing, thank you.  Obviously the person controlling your simulation wanted you to have a boring day.

Synesthesia (in Greek, the joining of the senses) is a phenomenon in which activation of one sensory reaction involuntarily causes another.  I actually have this.  In my case, when I hear music, I often perceive a color as well.  I have iTunes playlists categorized by color.  There are various types of synesthesia, such as seeing letters or numbers as colors, some people can even taste sounds or colors. I also remember when I was a kid that certain street signs affected my mood.  But it could also be possible that my mom was dosing my juice boxes with LSD.