I get what a simulation is, at least in the very literal sense. What I’m experiencing feels like reality, it would have to, it’s all any of us have ever known. But what would it mean for us if we truly lived in a simulation? Can it just be turned off and we cease to exist? If we found out we did live in one, how could it change our reality? How do we even hypothesize such a thing? I have zero background in physics just so we’re at an understanding of my physics understanding.
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A couple of scientists have vaguely posed it as a possibility. It’s not science, nor is is the consensus. It’s mostly conspiracy theorists, tech bros and DMT enthusiasts saying it with gusto.
The hypothesis is – is what philosophers and stoners discuss and what The Matrix is saying in fiction… could in theory be true.
That you are in a simulation, and the entire universe is made in a computer on an alien’s desktop for your experience. Or that we are all in a simulation. Or that we are all parts of a program.
It’s essentially religion. A good, interesting bullshit story which you can’t prove or disprove. Popular with right wing people and stoners alike.
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