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Premise 1: Simulations of worlds can be created. [Video games, etc.]
Premise 2: In the future, the technology will be such that more complex and realistic simulations will be possible.
Premise 3: There will be more simulated worlds than real ones, almost by definition.
Conclusion: It is more likely that we are in a simulated world, than a real world.
If you apply the same argument to the world which may have created our simulation, it increases the likelihood even further, and exponentially if you keep applying it to every possible simulation world.
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Premise 2: In the future, the technology will be such that more complex and realistic simulations will be possible.
Premise 3: There will be more simulated worlds than real ones, almost by definition.
Conclusion: It is more likely that we are in a simulated world, than a real world.
If you apply the same argument to the world which may have created our simulation, it increases the likelihood even further, and exponentially if you keep applying it to every possible simulation world.
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My theory: We are all sims. confirmed 10/10
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So its simulated turtles all the way down?
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More like 'The Matrix', where's the oracle?
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Phil_Mitchell wrote My theory: We are all sims. confirmed 10/10
Illuminati confirmed.. Time to be scared.
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I'd have to disagree unfortunately for one simple reason, and that is that I am able to differentiate between myself and other objects.
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Miss wrote I'd have to disagree unfortunately for one simple reason, and that is that I am able to differentiate between myself and other objects.
What makes you think you wouldn't be able to do that in a simulation?
and besides, how do you know that you can do it because you're not in a simulation, rather than you have been programmed to be able to do it?
cookies001 wrote More like 'The Matrix', where's the oracle?
This theory isn't really at all like the Matrix.
The Matrix theory states we are in a computerized world, while in the real world are brains and nervous systems are hooked up to a system which makes it all feel real so that our bodies can be harvested as power sources.
This theory is saying that we don't exist outside of the simulation.
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Literate wroteMiss wrote I'd have to disagree unfortunately for one simple reason, and that is that I am able to differentiate between myself and other objects.
What makes you think you wouldn't be able to do that in a simulation?
and besides, how do you know that you can do it because you're not in a simulation, rather than you have been programmed to be able to do it?
cookies001 wrote More like 'The Matrix', where's the oracle?
This theory isn't really at all like the Matrix.
The Matrix theory states we are in a computerized world, while in the real world are brains and nervous systems are hooked up to a system which makes it all feel real so that our bodies can be harvested as power sources.
This theory is saying that we don't exist outside of the simulation.
If this were true (small chance it could be, but the same chance you and everyone/thing in the universe is just a figment of my imagination) then it wouldn't really matterB
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fknvlink wroteLiterate wroteMiss wrote I'd have to disagree unfortunately for one simple reason, and that is that I am able to differentiate between myself and other objects.
What makes you think you wouldn't be able to do that in a simulation?
and besides, how do you know that you can do it because you're not in a simulation, rather than you have been programmed to be able to do it?
cookies001 wrote More like 'The Matrix', where's the oracle?
This theory isn't really at all like the Matrix.
The Matrix theory states we are in a computerized world, while in the real world are brains and nervous systems are hooked up to a system which makes it all feel real so that our bodies can be harvested as power sources.
This theory is saying that we don't exist outside of the simulation.
If this were true (small chance it could be, but the same chance you and everyone/thing in the universe is just a figment of my imagination) then it wouldn't really matterB
It doesn't have to matter to talk about it. Logical positivism doesn't work.
Besides, I think it would matter. It says a lot about our origins, the supposed order in nature, the conundrum of free will and whether or not we actually have it, and it could help to explain why things get very weird at the quantum level.
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What if us, a simulation, became more advanced than those who created us, and we were to get out of this simulation?
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