But let’s just say I think we live in a simulation or life is a drug or something weird. I heard From my friend that we live in a simulation and then for the next week I heard from 2-3 more sources we live in a simulation. Now I hear it every where except this forum. But Elon musk and Neil degrasse Tyson said it for instance
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Unusual beliefs are what they are, unusual beliefs.
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Maybe when we die we find out some more answers though. Or maybe we just die. Who knows. I know I don’t have the answers yet but sometimes I consider this possibility. Life just has so many coincidences or I just notice them more. I believe there’s like divine meaning in the world but it’s crazy. Some things I don’t think “god” is capable of. Only man that made himself god by creating a simulation
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I believe God is an alien. From a race on another planet. That us humans are the offspring of alien races.
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Hey I wouldn’t put it past the possibility’s
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Eh as long as you’re not letting it dictate your life there’s nothing wrong with having the belief and just ignoring it.
I mean you’re not wrong, there are active theories out there looking to find the “error in the matrix” that basically the simulation fails at some point of inspection.
Its just not worth putting too much stock into.
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I was curious about it at one point in my life too
so I find this video and it’s funny to me
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What is a simulation?
If you mean there is a real world and a simulated world then no, there is no, imho, simulation (#1).
E.g.The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey is about a guy that lives in a simulated (#1) world, but there is a real world. If you think you are Truman Burbank (the character played by Jim), then imho you are wrong. There is no other real world that you are not a part of.
However, there is another use of the world simulation (#2), used in science, meaning a theory. There are some scientists (e.g. Mr. Speed-of-Sound, Ernst Mach) that argue that the real world is a theory or simulation (#2). If such scientists are right then we are all living in a #2 simulation.
For example, do centres of gravity exist? Most people would say, I think, that centres of gravity are theoretical entities that help us understand how objects behave when they are, e.g. hung up by a piece of string. There is no existent centre of gravity in things – no matter how finely you chop things up you will never find a centre of gravity lump – but the theoretical entity is useful.
Daniel Dennet says that the self, (“I” who we think we are) are like centres of gravity. Theories about something, our mind, that has in fact no existent centre.
But there are others that go further. Ernst Mach (as in “Mach 1” = the speed of sound), who claims that everything, including “objects” and atoms, are theories about our sensations, especially our visual field. Mach claims that the (Kantian) “thing in itself” is unnecessary. We just have a lot of theories, or simulations.
If so then, in that sense, we all live in a simulation, but most people are unaware of it. Most people are unaware of the fact that we live in a theoretical, centre-of-gravity-like world, imho.
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@Jonnybegood, was the movie, The Matrix, about life being a simulation? I haven’t seen it yet.
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Yes the matrix was about a simulated computer world. I should (probably not) watch it again to understand it better now.
But Elon musk thinks our original world became boring or destroyed or something so they made computer simulations to change the interface of reality.
@timtak maybe I’m a simulated character and one of my purposes is to put the idea of simulation into other characters head, ones who are the center. Maybe this whole board is of simulated characters. We serve a purpose in the whole though. As does everything
Well that’s what I can think
Maybe we’re ALL “plugged in”
Lots of theories
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Yes those are definitely unusual beliefs. Just as long as you don’t take them seriously you should be ok.
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