Is life a simulation?
People say life is a mystery and is not susceptible to anything except for death. Most say that there is even life after death. But what if all of that was just futile. That we were not even real. That we are just a dream or a simulation of some other world. This is the topic that could make most confused or skeptical and make some question our very existence. Are we real? Do we have free will? Is life a simulation?
Almost nothing today can run such a sophisticated program that could simulate an entire world and each individual being. “The holodeck offers computer-generated environments that allow real people to role-play not only with each other, but also with sophisticated computer-simulated people. Today, computer-simulated …show more content…
This is where it would get very thought provoking. With many chinese proverbs and philosophers that have questioned our own existence. “I think; therefore I am.” (ReneÌ Descartes, Discourse on the Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.) This statement means that if you are able to think and doubt then there would be no reason that he is not real. Because if you were not real then you would have no choice but to go with the motions and never doubt your own existence. But doubting your own existence may be still in the preset path that you would follow. This quote would contradict the simulation theory but if you were to connect it with the dream theory it may make more sense. If he is doubting if he is real then that would rid of the simulation, but if it was a dream then he would be real. He would have free will but his life and experience would not be real. This by no means is a reliable source, but there was a small story that someone posted on the internet about how they got into a fight in high school and after that fight he went onto meet a girl, get a job, marry and have kids. But one day he sat down and could not stop staring at a lamp. There was just something odd with it. So he sat there for three days until he would not move to even eat. His wife left him and took the kids and after three days the lamp suddenly deformed and he was back in high school being picked up by a police officer and being slammed against the side of a car being confused and handcuffed. He later figured out that that was a dream and had went through depression of losing his wife and kids that he never had. Again this is not a reliable source but it would be an amazing storyline for a movie. Bottom line is that if there were a dream involved then yes he would be real, but his experiences would not. A dream is almost always different each
People say life is a mystery and is not susceptible to anything except for death. Most say that there is even life after death. But what if all of that was just futile. That we were not even real. That we are just a dream or a simulation of some other world. This is the topic that could make most confused or skeptical and make some question our very existence. Are we real? Do we have free will? Is life a simulation?
Almost nothing today can run such a sophisticated program that could simulate an entire world and each individual being. “The holodeck offers computer-generated environments that allow real people to role-play not only with each other, but also with sophisticated computer-simulated people. Today, computer-simulated …show more content…
This is where it would get very thought provoking. With many chinese proverbs and philosophers that have questioned our own existence. “I think; therefore I am.” (ReneÌ Descartes, Discourse on the Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.) This statement means that if you are able to think and doubt then there would be no reason that he is not real. Because if you were not real then you would have no choice but to go with the motions and never doubt your own existence. But doubting your own existence may be still in the preset path that you would follow. This quote would contradict the simulation theory but if you were to connect it with the dream theory it may make more sense. If he is doubting if he is real then that would rid of the simulation, but if it was a dream then he would be real. He would have free will but his life and experience would not be real. This by no means is a reliable source, but there was a small story that someone posted on the internet about how they got into a fight in high school and after that fight he went onto meet a girl, get a job, marry and have kids. But one day he sat down and could not stop staring at a lamp. There was just something odd with it. So he sat there for three days until he would not move to even eat. His wife left him and took the kids and after three days the lamp suddenly deformed and he was back in high school being picked up by a police officer and being slammed against the side of a car being confused and handcuffed. He later figured out that that was a dream and had went through depression of losing his wife and kids that he never had. Again this is not a reliable source but it would be an amazing storyline for a movie. Bottom line is that if there were a dream involved then yes he would be real, but his experiences would not. A dream is almost always different each