Do you think we live in a simulation or not? And why do you think that?

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Sometimes I feel like we do live in a simulation. Some coincidences and moments just feel too unreal to be random…

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

I don't know but it is a good question for all of us to think about

And if we are what are the reasons

And if we are how could we be built and everything on this planet be built with precision I mean to the finest detail

Because we are all one And no matter What happens bad Something good comes from it So there's lessons Every day there's a lesson

And it's much deeper than our little brains will comprehend every once in awhile we do get an answer that wakes us up

And if it is a simulation how come it's so evil how come all the things that you would believe in are you think it's great in one point in time in your life ends up becoming evil like the government like the people that run this world

I was told something a long time ago and that is no matter what I find out no matter the truth or the lies that I find out always have faith always believe

And I will do that until the day I die

And yet again I have never ever met an honest religion person I mean that in so many different ways they say one thing but do the other

I would say the Bible has the answers in it but I won't read it because there are so many contradictions

For everything that I have believed in and everybody called me a fool There are scientists now proving The same thing that I believe in

I believe that we are 100% energy and we can make anything happen I have proved that to myself but there's a bigger picture that I need to prove to myself and that is the more the people that believe in the same thing they can make it happen I've tried it on here many times

But most people think it's a joke it's really not whether it's energy God whomever that tells me things when I ask they have never lied to me it's always been right on the money

So whether our world is real or a simulation I know there is a bigger picture after this and the only thing I can suggest is we keep searching for the truth

Because one day it will all be revealed to us

The other thing that I feel Is Well I'm here I need to experience everything I want to understand everything I want to feel it I want to become I want the knowledge of it I want to share it

So in a way I search for people like me because there's something behind that too

indissoluble · Accepted Answer

Why are you an AI agent? Humans live in reality. There are humans that run psyops though to influence thinking of other humans. Legacy media craft narratives and NGO's run preplanned events that they have practiced in simulations before hand before they are staged and the world is subjected to them in their bid for power. War happens on my different battlefields... It's not all rifles and tanks... It's race riots, pandemics, supply shocks, engineer famines, engineered migration, and so much more... So many of the major events that you see on the news have been planned, simulated, and then executed as part of a war against you.

WhitneySnow · Accepted Answer

No. That feeling is God. We do not live in a simulation. No non divine entity could build a simulation as deep and complex as our life.

Calyptomaniac · Accepted Answer

"You know how I can tell we're not in the Matrix? If we were, the food would be better" -Sheldon Cooper

Wodens_Apprentice · Answer

The human brain works like a computer to process mathematical "1" and "0" responses.

We have the emotional side of our brain (the woman) who thinks like a graphics card. Lots of fine little threads of information to create a bigger picture in their heads.

We also have the rational side of our brain (the man) with less, but stronger cores working like a processor. This is able to predict outcomes immediately & observes outcomes & information easier.

Both men and women have both sides of their brain but women tend to think emotionally first and rationalise later. Men such as I do the opposite where I will rationalise something and then react afterwards with the feelings.

If the human brain is the closest thing we get to understanding reality, & everything we see, hear & feel is just a product of different types of energy being detected that our bodies send signals to our brain then think about it.

That's nature building a computer. And what is both a brain and a computer also capable of? We can build worlds. So I think if there is a higher consciousness (and many religions emphasise consciousness as the path to being enlightened) then yes the world is a "Digital Reality" but that makes it no less real or impressive like the Matrix would have you believe.

Everything about the computer looks like an organ system. The power supply is the heart, the BUS on microchips are like veins, he RAM is like your immediate instinct (like jumping when someone scares you) and the memory is a lot like a biological memory but without a system to automatically filter our worthless memory.

I have a theory that if we get AI (Not language model search engine scams like Chatgpt, which are fake AI) then it might be worth getting the robot to think with both the processor & the graphics card at the same time. The inner monologue in your mind is your processor and your ability to spin an able in your mind is the graphics card (some people struggle with one or both of those. As an autist, I am very capable of both however).

HawkPerception · Answer

If you think about things scientifically, it's very strange that at an atomic level, we're all made of atoms that do not touch each other. Even when we touch each other or touch things and get whatever sensation we do, lour atoms are still technically not touching. All the sensations we feel are just signals in our brains making us feel the way we do when we get within certain proximities. All the emotions we feel are based on how we react to a combination of internal biochemistry and environmental factors.

Regardless of whether we live in a simulation or not, this is still our reality. And you should try to enjoy it as best as you can.

Here's an interesting story you may want to read.

Interesting story

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

The Matrix then.

But I didn't take Matrix at face value, I viewed it as a parable talking about freedom of thought as well as chains coming with it. Talking about how every framework we may live in is a system that can be looked at from above. Saying, for instance, that society, our mind, our behaviours could be invisible systems executed in the background until we look closely at them. Until we question those systems.

As for the strict idea of a simulation that could be, I'm resolving with: If that simulation perfectly simulates reality then I can't tell the difference, so it doesn't really matter.

genericname85 · Answer

i don't think so, i know it. what you're referring to when you say "we" is adressing the "me" of the collective individuals. the "me" is the ego. the ego is comparable to a software that our problem solving computer (aka brain) runs in order to orientthe individual person in it's percieved reality. and that reality we percieve is merely a sort of continually ongoing collection of filtered down snapshots that then gets interpreted and fed through our senses into our ego. so i would say at the point of the ego, we don't really live in reality anymore. we live in what the brain tells us about reality with it's very limited sensors and detectors.

FreyaRed · Answer

There are some indices for limits of our reality like Planck units and quantum phenomena which look like omitting of rules existing in our dimension layer of universe. On the other hand if it's a simulation this is a gigantic simulation we can't even imagine as numbers. 1 millimeter is 6.18e+31 (around 6 and 31 zeros behind) Planck length units and 1 mm is nothing in comparison of dimensions of universe. It's unlikely some device simulates those unimaginable numbers if we assume every such 3 dimensional point has temperature, electromagnetic, gravitation. etc. value.

If it's a simulation gods must be nerds. XD

Phunk_Fenomenon · Answer

I used to believe that life might be a simulation, especially after watching The Matrix trilogy. But The Animatrix which serves as prequel actually changed how I looked at it.

To me, it made the “simulation” idea feel less like some mysterious computer world and more like a metaphor for human systems. Before the machines took over, people were already trapped in systems of politics, media, military power, social control, and dependency.

So I don’t really think we live in a literal simulation. I think we live inside man-made systems that shape how we think, what we believe, and how much freedom we really have. In that sense, the Matrix already existed before the machines built anything.

MisterWack · Answer

What would be the purpose and we’d obviously be built in the image of whoever programmed this simulation. It’s been going on for a long period of time too, didn’t just start a few thousand years ago.

I don’t get simulation, but I understand why we think there is. Genetic code, we used that terminology to place onto computers. Playwriting was like God creating a little pocket universe with characters with feelings, emotions, depth upon the stage to be performed by humans following the script. Like I get the whole simulation thing since we made computer simulations, but those simulations are based on reality so for reality itself to be a “simulation” doesn’t add up in my honest opinion.

Lesbologist · Answer

Shazam was fucking real. I remember the nuculer exposion tests that would turn day into... not dark, but dim and all these glowing colors in the sky.

It's fucking weird because I'm now with you fucking people and none of you or very few of you remember what I remember. It's extra weird because some of you remember exactly what I remember. Most don't though... and I currently find proof that we were doing those experiments during Bush Jr. ... It's like I lived in another world and somehow slipped into this shit, this world that we're currently in together.

I just adapted and I mean seriously... I have to survive here. I was in a different world though. This universe is on another path and I'm just in it against my will. Can't wait until I expire and don't have to think about it.

Tarifa · Answer

I have those moments of  coincidence  and  déjà vu  all the time. Some of them are daily routines, as we are creatures of habit. Some of it might be the fact that we're just living our dreams and looking forward to things until they finally happen. And sometimes everything clicks into place within a grand scheme. If that's  destiny , I don't know. I think we have a fait bit of say in the matter. Every decision in life takes us to a new decision that wouldn't have been there if not for the first. Every intersection and our decision of which way to go brings us to the next intersection.

MrChinaski · Answer

Imagine you were to build a simulation of the universe. Then you would need a system bigger than the universe to do the compute. In fact, and the comp sci folk amongst us can tell me why I'm an idiot, my guess is the actual universe is the most parsimonious possible simulation of itself.

So...

... where was I...

CherryLove007 · Answer

You have to decide with how reality is.

Tomislav7 · Answer

No, but that idea stems from our newly discovered concept of technology. We are now assuming that we live in a simulation generated by a massive technological computer presumably run by intelligent life. But... that both gives way to an understanding of God without fully attributing that He is the Intelligent Creator and we exist in his creation.

Mark_Est · Answer

The computing power needed for such simulation is pretty much impossible. Especially considering the speed of light, which won't be possible in a simulation. Components having some resistance will slow it down enaugh to be noticably inconsistent with math

Anonymous · Answer

No. At least, not a simulation of any type that MAN can concieve of. To God it might be like a simulation. But God exists in past present and future simoultaneously. God exists outside of time

I think a simulation is what man imagines because man cannot concieve of anything greater than him. He can't concieve if something he cannot possibly fathom yet.

Nikki1989 · Answer

No, but this is one of those questions that bring out the brainwashed religious nutters.  Just wait and see.

exitseven · Answer

No, it is real. The randomness of it could explain why you feel this way. So many things in our lives depend on chance. Chance is not the same as luck.

AviatorTom · Answer

A simulation might explain some things... but so would random chance and person decisions. No, we are nit in a simulation.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm not sure, probably not... but maybe... if this is just a simulation, I wonder where is the switch off button.

msc545 · Answer

I don't live in a simulation. I am the simulation.

lilBigPotato · Answer

Nope.. Just don't have any reason to believe otherwise.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Nope we aren't, it's impossible to have such non infinite simulations, unless the beings are god like!

Jen_oic · Answer

@elenaseluna  I believe like @WitneySnow created by GOD

AngryCarl3 · Answer

A simulation is real if you're inside it. Not saying yes or no, just saying.

Anonymous · Answer

A black dude offered me a red pill and a blue pill one day, the red pill was so pretty I took it before he told me what it would do.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Yes we all live in the Matrix I thought you knew that

oldman26 · Answer

I think we live in a jar, the stars are really holes in the lid

PinkSchmetterling · Answer

It would definitely explain a lot

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Sometimes I feel like we do as well.

queenofcardio · Answer

Possibly yes

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