Are we living in a simulation?

[The_Mysterious_Stranger]

Question or you all: Are we living in a simulation created by aliens?

If we don't have free will (which means that all of our "voluntary decisions and movements are determined by molecules / chemicals, then what are we, sims living in a simulation? Are we like the sims in the game The Sims? How does humanity go from living in caves to having electricity, plumbing, cars, jets, ships, helicopters, computers, rockets, photorealistic video games and movies, etc.?

We know other animals don't have free will. They live in their habitat according to the theory of natural selection and evolution to adapt to their environment, whether they are carnivores or herbivores.

And who are these aliens that created the simulation? And what created those aliens?

And if we are characters in this simulation, are we connected via computer 3D equipment like in the Matrix movies and those episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh (you know what I'm talking about).

And last, could this theory tie into multi universes / dimensions?

EVEN THE THOERY OF MYERS BRIGGS / TYPOLOGY COULD SUGGEST WE ARE LIVING IN A SIMULATION. THAT 16 PERSONALITY YPES COULD BE LIKE CLASSES IN RPGS.

 

[Pin]

If we are living in a simulation, I want to be Agent Smith.

 

[David54]

I've always been a red pill kind of person. .

 

[Cornerstone]

I think it's the only reasonable explanation

 

[The_Mysterious_Stranger]

I think it's the only reasonable explanation

Could you expand on that?

 

[Pin]

I've always been a red pill kind of person. .

The blue pill isn't so bad.

 

[dragulagu]

Question or you all: Are we living in a simulation created by aliens?

No too much waste of resources.

 

[The_Mysterious_Stranger]

Probably explains why I've experienced so many deja vu and ironic moments in my life.

 

[Cornerstone]

Could you expand on that?

I'll have to check with my manager.

 

[The_Mysterious_Stranger]

I'll have to check with my manager.

Supersize that please

 

[Cornerstone]

Supersize that please

I'll have to check with my manager

 

[Wyote]

We are living in a simulation simulated by simulators

 

[The_Mysterious_Stranger]

We are living in a simulation simulated by simulators

Who simulated the simulators?

 

[Wyote]

Who simulated the simulators?

Simulatosaurus.

 

[Deleted member 16771]

Simulatosaurus.

 

[Fuyuko]

It's an unhealthy belief one way or another, since it's yet another thing in the modern world that decreases human value. It decreases human value by decreasing the value of the universe; implying it's invalid by virtue of being a simulation. I hate thinking like this. I don't care if it's true or not; it has a terrible effect upon the human mind.

 

[The_Mysterious_Stranger]

It's an unhealthy belief one way or another, since it's yet another thing in the modern world that decreases human value. It decreases human value by decreasing the value of the universe; implying it's invalid by virtue of being a simulation. I hate thinking like this. I don't care if it's true or not; it has a terrible effect upon the human mind.

great theory to make us all paranoid, isn’t it?

 

[Deleted member 16771]

Personally I can barely comprehend what the difference would be, except in terms of the existence of a 'basal reality' upon which all others (simulations) are founded, but then even that might not make sense.

 

[Fuyuko]

Personally I can barely comprehend what the difference would be, except in terms of the existence of a 'basal reality' upon which all others (simulations) are founded, but then even that might not make sense.

Many things are a product of how they're viewed. View the universe as a simulation and what it is to us changes.

 

[Wyote]

I exist on a pizza pie balancing on the skull of a coyote simulated by Simulatosaurus