If I hear voices, usually very nice voices, and have what most people think is a crazy theory and not be schizoaffective or bipolar with psychotic features? Here’s the thing. A lot of mainstream scientists are researching Simulation theory/hypothesis, which says we exist in a simulation, kind of like the Matrix. So for about as far back as I can remember, early childhood, I used to notice things, like it seemed I could change the world. Over the past few years after thinking about my life I honestly think it’s very possible that I’m stuck in some type of Simulation, possible alone. Maybe my real body is in a hospital or psych ward hooked up to a Simulation, and some AI controls my reality in ways to heal you. Or maybe I’m just a criminal in the real world where society deals with people like me by connecting them to a Simulation, hiding their real memories and making them think they’re living. Idk, but it’s driving me crazy. I don’t want to bother all of you by going into a lifetime of details, but trust me, I have a lot of experiences that seriously makes me believe I’m in a simulation, probably alone or just a few people, and that most people are not real people. They’re AI or something. The thing is, I completely acknowledge that it’s just a theory and that I have no proof.
What about mediums who hear voices who have a completely normal life? Is it possible I’m just like them except that I’ve been drawn into a science theory/hypothesis because yes my whole life I’ve had a very scientific mentality.
Solipsism is not science. It’s easy to get lost in solipsism, but in the end, it doesn’t matter. And didn’t they debunk the simulation hypothesis recently? I’m not a physicist, but I read something about this a while ago.
You’re psychotic, though. These are delusions. Are you taking antipsychotic medication?
I experience a lot of the same ideas and beliefs you do, including other people being AI. It’s fascinating how we come to collective delusions, but I think having them blast all over media like they often are kind of feeds our delusion and allows us to form new ones.
No, I just read the wikipedia article and they haven’t debunked Simulation theory/hypothesis. How would they prove a negative? I’ve seen a lot of academic mainstream scientists starting to research and do experiments to see if we’re living in a Simulation. That’s science. Some are notable scientists. Even Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and Tesla, strongly believes we most likely live in a simulation. Yeah he’s not a scientist. Just a freaking smart guy. Besides, the math presented so far by academics shows the probability we live in a simulation is astronomically high.
It might be worthwhile to see about first getting in to see a therapist/psychologist and discuss your thoughts. They can help you work through this and determine if you need psychiatric treatment.
“To store information about a couple hundred electrons, they noted, one needs a computer memory that requires more atoms than what’s available in the universe. “However, one cannot exclude the possibility that some inherent physical property creates an obstruction to efficient classical simulations of many-body quantum systems,” the researchers wrote.”
Not sure what an “obstruction to efficient classical simulations of many-body quantum systems” is, but it looks like a pretty major blow to the simulation hypothesis that you can’t accurately simulate a couple of hundred electrons with all the atoms in the universe reorganized to a single quantum computer.
The only thing that was published last year was to suggest that it’s nearly impossible to simulate the entire universe, but IMO any halfway intelligent person who never think the creator of this simulation would simulate everything. It’s laughable. Do video game companies simulate atoms inside the walls lol? Of course not. They simulate what the observer is observing. There’s no reason to simulate things that nobody is observing.
I just talked about that. That’s the most laughable ridiculous version of a Simulation theory. Video games only need to simulate what the observer is observing. That’s all.
Elon Musk and most other guys have been talking about a simulated universe. The entire universe. Not a personalized video game universe. He didn’t mix solipsism into it in anything I’ve read about this.
Why do you think so much about this? Are you trying to find a way out? Wouldn’t that be impossible? Why does this matter to you? I’ve had these thoughts many times, but they don’t bother me. I’ve had delusions about other things, and I stopped caring about them when i got medicated for them. I’m pretty happy now. So are you on meds? Because this is psychosis. Meds can help you.
Duded, you’re like a master at fake news. Are you some AI or what. Yes, Elon Musk has repeatedly used the video game as an example. Video games do NOT simulate every freaking particle in the universe lol.
No, I’m not an AI. Not as far as I know. And I’m consciously seeing this right now and consciously trying to figure out why this is so important to you and why you still haven’t answered my question about meds. Meds are not evil and we’re not computer programs whose only purpose is to entertain and confuse you.
Another Elon Musk quote. It shows that he’s talking about video games. He’s actually an intelligent guy. Why in the world would anyone even suggest a computer would need to simulate zillions of things that aren’t even being observed? That’s crazy!
Elon Musk quote:
The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D with millions playing simultaneously. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by 1000 from what it is now. It’s a given that we’re clearly on a trajectory that we’re going to have games that are indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is 1 in millions.
It depends on why you believe these things, on the other symptoms (mania/hypomania/depression/negative symptoms/cognitive impairment…) and on the impairment they cause.
After reading this thread, I have become more convinced you should seek out a therapist/psychologist to get en route to psychiatric treatment. You are certainly suffering from a very strong delusion.
No, if you read up on this it’s not that crazy. Not until you get to the quantum weird stuff that I completely don’t even understand. With advanced quantum computers, simulating a universe with gazillions of particles would be easy. And that’s what he has been talking about. A whole universe that exists only as a simulation.
