Simulation thread -

[Parker Soudin]

Is it possible that we are living in a simulation? Because nobody knows how the first cell was created, or exactly how the big bang happened, and if we are in a simulation designed by computers, or people, how was their universe created? or do they even have a universe?

I've been stuck on this question for weeks, any ideas?

 

[dopy]

Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction? And to any one who suggested: ‘But to a fiction belongs an originator?’—might it not be bluntly replied: WHY? May not this ‘belong’ also belong to the fiction? Is it not at length permitted to be a little ironical towards the subject, just as towards the predicate and object? Might not the philosopher elevate himself above faith in grammar?

 

[wylfım]

Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction? And to any one who suggested: ‘But to a fiction belongs an originator?’—might it not be bluntly replied: WHY? May not this ‘belong’ also belong to the fiction? Is it not at length permitted to be a little ironical towards the subject, just as towards the predicate and object? Might not the philosopher elevate himself above faith in grammar?

The tests came back, autistic word salad. It's terminal.
Please know that we are here to support you in this difficult time.

 

[Lord_Ghoul]

 

[dopy]

The tests came back, autistic word salad. It's terminal.
Please know that we are here to support you in this difficult time.

he's been dead for over a hundred years so you're a little late

 

[jewelry investor]

dunno, just ask the sim managers.

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

Simulation theory is just a roundabout way of reinventing God.

 

[Yeeb-Renzo]

Surprised this wasn’t posted in deep thoughts, but whatever.

 

[Rei is shit]

I was hoping this was a thread to complain about DCS in

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The Matrix has you...

 

[User names must be unique]

The real questions should be if the earth is a simulation what are the goals of the simulation? How do we as potentially limited AI ruin the simulation for whatever/whoever created us?

 

[Dysnomia]

Maybe we are a simulation. But the individuals who are running it are long dead and we're just going on and on. There's a Star Trek TOS episode kinda like this. But I can't remember if it was a simulation or legit time travel. But the planet was dying due to severe climate change. So the populace transferred themselves to better points in the planet's history. But no one was running the machine anymore because anyone left behind had long since died.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I thought you said stimulation thread

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

This quote mirrors my thoughts on the subject:

"Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content." ~ Conan the Barbarian.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

Did you believe you were the star of your own hidden television series after finishing the Truman Show too, OP?

 

[J A N D E K]

No. But I do think it is entirely possible that we could be what basically equates to an ant farm for some giant alien being. Maybe billions of these aliens share the same hobby, on their world, each with their own “earth farm” and they watch fascinated by the buzz of activity of these tiny, apparently mindless creatures.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I was presented with this scenario recently. I offered to kick the guy in the balls, on the grounds that if this isn’t real, it shouldn’t hurt. He pointed out that pain could be coded into the illusion. Then I offered to kick him in the balls again and he abandoned the subject. Thus, reality is proven.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

"Computer, end program."