Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "Why You're Probably Not a Simulation" video.

  1. There was a theory once that deemed all objects are merely coherent complexes of vibrations translating through relatively fixed oscillators. In other words, what makes a thing a thing, at most basic level, are oscillators fixed in space so that what vibrated as you a moment ago is not the same oscillators that vibrate as you now, and now, etc. I forget the obscure word that was invented for this theory, but it was devised by a German physicist in the late 19th century. Something of the kind is held by a branch of Shaivism and covered by the term "spanda". Making reality, essentially, a crystal lattice in which all this is "only vibration". It boggles the mind to conceive a lattice supporting so many directions, vectors, levels. Presumably the basic oscillator composing it is restricted to three dimensions of freedom. Is Aether easier to conceive? The concept evidently attributes mass as motion, ultimately in both theories.
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