Life virtual

Life virtual Science now has enough self-confidence to describe the processes necessary for a living organism to bear all the characte...

Life virtual

Science now has enough self-confidence to describe the processes necessary for a living organism to bear all the characteristics of a living system. These processes are easily simulated by computers. There are no theoretical limits to build artificial models for processes of complex living systems, and the relationships between them are describable too. The more we know about the living systems and their relationships with the environment, the more accurate these simulations can be.

Are these virtual systems living systems in their own virtual environments? And if we erase the memory of the computer where the simulations are running, are we killing a living organism?

Most likely we can simulate evolution too. We can build models to simulate evolution. It seems that there is no theoretical limit to achieve that. Even a complex virtual “biosphere” can be created this way. These virtual worlds are not virtual at all in their virtuality. The only reality for them is the actual virtuality. They do not have any information and cannot know anything about the system, which created them. That system does not exist for them.

The science - which denies the supernatural - declares that intelligence is created by evolution, and if this is true, then this can be simulated artificially. Can the intelligence come into existence virtually and with it can a civilization come into existence too?

And if we erase the memory of the machine which created the virtual world, then do we wipe out intelligence and civilization? Do we have any moral responsibility?

And are we the same kind of simulated living system, intelligence, or civilization too?