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  • When are we at the brink of needing new technology?
    I had considered the possibility that we might need to terminate our existence, but I think that would be an absolute last resort.

    Basically, what this boils down to, is whether it is apparent that activities day to day, intellectual or otherwise, are growing more - so finite as time goes on.

    This is why, for example, a sports game will never grow old. Because there are infinite possibilities. But writing? No, I am convinced otherwise. Within the limitations of our senses and imaginations, we have already seen a lot of describable events unfold, either in real life or in fiction. There are only a finite number of ways we can describe a tree, for example.

    Thank you for you thoughts.
  • When are we at the brink of needing new technology?
    Yes, I think so. But it's not some kind of instant utopia (or instant dystopia if you like) because the informational constraints of the current existence we have, should be becoming more apparent. So information, new ideas, finite expressions, will all dry up under the current technological continuum, and there is no magic formula such as "5g networks change everything and all information" that will offer a suitable change. It will literally have to be a whole new way of seeing reality. A total shift, not just and only more dynamic information flow.
  • When are we at the brink of needing new technology?
    The threat I am referring to, is the inability for human beings to find activities that suitably pass the time. Such as, if we start to stagnate in the area of computing, then a programmer will no longer have a job, or a designer if we stagnate also in the visual arts. This is a threat, because people put out of their jobs would have to find something else to do, or to occupy themselves with, and if we stagnate as a race, then we are left only with functional jobs, or supply/maintenance jobs. There would be virtually no intellect remaining, and there would be great numbers of useless people without any real work to do, as the jobs would already be filled.
  • Beyond this dimension
    It's certainly a possibility. I was thinking last night about configurations, and I thought: actually there may be a trillion combinations of the effects of colours; more than the basic parameter for a jpeg, which can be host of up to 16 million combinations of colours.

    It got me thinking: If there are an almost inexhaustible number of combinations, then could a computer sift through different combinations to find that the objects could be 'warped' around the edges based on internal combinations? Almost like an illusion representing something beyond regular 3d spaces which appear finite.

    So this is the sort of thing I may ask the physics forums, but I was hoping that maybe on this forum, writings could be created that encourage scientific investigations in these areas. Using philosophy to generate demand and curiosity into the technical.

    Further, supposedly the human eye can see maybe 7 - 10 million colours, or something. But surely this has not been counted? There is perhaps an infinitesimal quality to the fact that we cannot be absolute in our measurement. So maybe as I write more, I might seek to redefine "infinitesimal. "

    Like how a lens can be distorted, maybe every object has a sort of visual membrane. This does sound strange but maybe it can add to a further definition of what "infinitesimal" is, like an infinitesimal membrane, or even that light itself has an uncountable quality.

    I was thinking of infinitesimal penetration, where the ability to penetrate an object is so minute and small that it is a totally refined probability.
    I'm sure I can write more about this.

    If anyone has any ideas for technical questions that I could ask a physics forum, that may help.

    Thanks again.
  • Beyond this dimension
    Oh okay. But the problem is that aren't all games just a physical representation of something? So a person can be very imaginative, but it still basically resembles the laws of physics.
  • Beyond this dimension
    Well, the video for me demonstrates that video games have their own internal logic systems.
    Without such systems, most games would simply become simulations and would be less 'gamey. '
    Thanks.

    @Galuchat
    The problem is that I don't think that there are many possibilities beyond simply reconfiguring things. You might say, well how about a game where time runs backwards? But the problem is more to do with the physical environment that shapes games. Time could run backwards, but everything would still look reasonably the same.