If you want the tl;dr: Scientific evidence suggests that the world is probably only a computer simulation.
Okay, anybody want to found a religion about that?
You mean other than the Lainites?Taleweaver wrote:Okay, anybody want to found a religion about that?
Any attorneys here who'd like to help me try sue the guy/gal who programmed me? S/he did a pretty shitty job with my life.LateWhiteRabbit wrote: Whole intelligent (AIs? Beings? Simulation inhabitants?) could live and die while the programmers had a sandwich, and the simulated being would experience the full passage of "years" from their own perspective.
Why would someone make a simulated reality? Ask anyone that plays the Sims, an MMO, or thinks the Holodeck from Star Trek would be a cool way to experience stories. In short, entertainment is the most likely answer. Maybe the biggest "reality TV" show in the (real) world.superhbman wrote:The philosophy I find closest to this idea is Solipsism, the idea that you cannot be certain if the entirety of existence might actually be real.
It is probably possible to achieve the level of technology to do so; but if so, how would we know that we are in or are simulations? I've never watched Lain, I don't know what they've got to say about this. There's also the question of why would someone do this.
As a hypothetical, let's say this reality is a simulation. What then? What are you going to do, knowing that it's all a lie?
Personally, I don't take this seriously. I think this is an exercise in making stories. I think it's also a little unhealthy to fantasize this way about your life and stuff. This is your life, that is all.
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