I’ve come to the conclusion that we probably live in a simulation.
Not meant as a joke.
Discussion
Dig harder 🤭
It's called the Truman Show syndrome. If it's not it should be. 🐸
It’s just deduction from observation
In that case I suggest interacting harder with the game engine. Also, how do we fit in your game? Are we generated or are we independent agents? 🤭
Such a dichotomy does not exist. Whether it's a game or not depends on the intention.
Whose intention?
Good question. I don’t have an answer for that. Most likely everyone’s who got one towards what you consider to be the game.
Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice
And she said, "We are all just prisoners here of our own device"
And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"
☝🏻🐸
If so…write your own script!
A simulation simply exists within a larger system, with forces beyond what those in the simulation are aware of influencing it. In the sense that humanity exists within a larger universe with spiritual forces influencing us, cooperating with us, fighting against us, then describing our existence as a simulation makes some degree of sense. The difference is we have free will and agency to choose. The more we are aware of and in tune with the Divine, the more we are able to “escape the simulation” so to speak.
Exactly. I agree with much of what you said 💯
It's likely
What gives you that impression?
If everything is planned, we may be inside a story too complex to ever read from the outside.
If nothing is planned, we may be clinging to illusions just to feel like it all means something.
#paradox
Simulation doesn’t require a plan. For example AI activity isn’t planned. It can’t be read from the outside.
I think your last statement is true in any case.
I’d argue there’s a master plan in a simulation (the rule set), everything within the simulation plays out unplanned? You’re in charge of the subplot but within certain limitations…
A set of determined rules can lead to unpredictable behavior. Simple order can create chaos; for example, consider the chaotic pendulum. Interestingly, this works the other way around, too.
So, I’d prefer to look at it in terms of probability. Influencing some aspects to some degree, sometimes—yes, that’s possible. However, I’m not sure if this constitutes being "in charge."
Plus, if the set of rules is an emergent property of the system of interest, then the question becomes whether it is determined. Can it even be determined? By what?
Can’t argue with that. I don’t know the answer but I can’t wrap my head around how many “miracles” it would take to get “here” from “there”? It’s either zero or infinite? The craziest part for me…is that the miracle isn’t that we’re here, it’s the miracle that we notice that we’re here.
Absolutely. Consciousness is the absolute kicker. It is indeed all a miracle.