I'm finally ok with the Fact that we live in a computer simulation

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At first it really bothered me that we are all living in a computer simulation. But it's been about a year since I accepted this as fact and I'm ok with it. There really is No difference from being a simulated person to being a real person - at least none that we can detect.

The main points that swayed me to this conviction are the following:
* Universal Mind: it's a concept that I've believed in for decades... there's a HD at work here.
* The world is pixelated: so are computer displays.
* Quantum Mechanics: for example; The collapse of the wave function. And Yes PJ I know there is considerable math (that is beyond me) that May explain this particular phenomenon; however it is only a piece to the puzzle.
* All human sensory input is converted into electrical signals that are interpreted by our brains. Very similar to my laptop running programs from code. 0's and 1's if you will.
* Bostrom's Paper: Are You Living in a Simulation?

Here are a couple of vids that also swayed me a Bit:

* Is Schrodinger's cat proof we're living in a computer simulation? - YouTube

* Are We Just Simulations? Through The Wormhole: Episode 1 ~ Is There a Creator? - YouTube

fwiw I think that if you are aware of this fact you are in a better position to control the outcome of many future events in your life.

Discuss.
 


...I need to research this a bit more but I think my entire life just made sense.

It also explains all the glitches I have seen in the world.
 
Yeah, when i first encountered this about 8 years ago, it fucked with me. But I've since blown my mind with shrooms and LSD enough times that I'm comfortable with quite a bit. This included.

Even if it wasn't a simulation in the sense of a computer, it could be simulation in the mind of God, etc. The more i think about it, the possibility of a base, fundamental reality seems less plausible... at all. Like there is no fundamental reality. It's all either interrelated or self-referencing.

Want another mind fuck? Try Frank J Tiplers "The Omega Point Theory"
 
Well regardless of validity it provides an approach to life that any computer geek can appreciate. Even as a metaphor if reality is simulated that means exploration takes a whole new meaning.

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Try Holographic Universe by Micheal Talbot. And LSD.

I think the Tibetan Book of the Dead is also a cool resource for this way of thinking. You can't take it literally word for word (just like you shouldn't take the bible literally) but it offers some very interesting perspectives and insights on the nature of consciousness and the physical world.
 
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I see absolutely no reason to believe that we're in a computer simulation.

It's a fun thought, nothing more.
 
Either way life is an amazing game. Unbelievably complicated yet intuitive enough that we can actually make sense of it. I still find it amazing that physics hasn't even been completely cracked yet as smart as people have become. If we are in a simulation odds are it's because the simulation is better than whatever real reality is. Either way it's all we've got for now.
 
This is way fucked up to be true. So God is nothing but a computer geek running a simulation like The Sims and all our lives are a fake construction of a complex computer program? How about the concept of time? I know Einstein...

I've been high, but never this high, fuck me!
 
I'm really glad you guys are coming to grips with my latest program.

It's not much, just a little something I threw together one night while on a bender... But you earthlings do seem to believe in it just fine. Although the program's time is up this year in December, I think I'll let it run through a few more cycles for shits n giggles.
 
ok probably easily answerable ... BUT, if we are in a computer simulation where are all the glitches? Also if we are in a computer simulation, what would be the equivalent year we would do something like this? 2100? or like 3000?

Lastly, why would someone or even us create a computer simulation to this scale?

lol this isn't the matrix. like Supernova said, cool idea but no dice
 
MSTeacher said:
Are we living in a designer universe? - Telegraph

We can't live in a simulation or designer universe because evolution explains everything and there's no such thing as intelligent design.

Sorry bro.

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I think it makes more sense to take the 'computer' part out and just call it a simulation. I don't think this sort of thinking implies that evolution and natural selection are not constantly happening and that an intelligent designer somehow programmed the universe in a static program. It implies that matter, like perception, is 'virtual', that the solidity of the universe is an illusion and that the world as we know it is sort of a hologram that operates on different wavelengths, some of which our organic senses cannot detect. I think 'computer simulation' isn't really all that accurate, it's just a cute way to wrap your head around it.

At least that's how I see it from what I've read.
 
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I came across something like this a while a go. It's a fun thought experiment where either outcome is irrelevant to me. This is how I remember it: If an advanced civilization (i.e. earth year 10,000) had the capacity to simulate anything and everything, would they? The answer is yes, of course. If so, then in an infinite universe (multiverse or whatever) the number of simulations would be greater than infinite and in that case the 'probability' of a reality being a simulation is 1.
 
In the infinite universe there would be an universe where infinite / multiverses don't exist, negating infinite universes in the first place.
 
Even if we don't live in a simulation, the universe is really nothing else than a big computer. It constantly and instantly calculates forces between particles, strings or whatever finer structure there is and it reevaluates those particles' positions and interactions. Nothing more than a program that handles input, it's effect on objects and the output. The universe (or the sum of universes) just does so without lagging (obviously Microsoft had no part in coding). The possibility that this might not be a simulation just means that all the data isn't stored anywhere and that we can't do a save/load.

The feeling you get off shrooms that everything is just being presented to you is remarkable. It's kinda like watching a 3d graphics demo.
 
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