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What do you think about the idea that we're in a simulation? (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't think that we're in a simulation, but I do find myself occasionally entertaining the idea of it.

I think it would be kinda funny, because I have seen so much ridiculous shit in my life, that the idea that all those ridiculous things were simulated inside a computer or that maybe an external player did those things that I witnessed, is just too weird and funny at the same time lol.

Also, I play Civilizations VI and I occasionally wonder 'What if those settlers / soldiers / units / whatever are actually conscious. What if those lines of code actually think that they're alive?'. In that case, they are in a simulation. The same could apply to other life simulators, such as the Sims 4.

Idk, what does Lemmy think about it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If we are in a simulation, I want access to my character modification screen, I have a few things to change...

Seriously though, untill we manage to manipulate the potential simulation we exist in, it makes zero difference if we are in a simulation or not.

You still gotta eat, pay bills, sleep, and other normal stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like to think all advents in science are simulation modifications. We managed to make rocks think and talk to us. That sounds like magic in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't agree, we didn't make rocks think, we discovered how to use special properties to make increadibly complex tools

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Our brains are incredibly complex organic matter. The only reason we know they think is because we experience the thinking. But we're still just mechanically complex clumps of nonthinking objects that create a thinking one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And at the end you get a list of statistics. Slept X days, X hours on the toilet, could have reached level 60 if only you went for job B. Spent X hours masterbating. Killed 2 people without you or anybody else even realising. Used X KG of plastic.