Simulated reality

[Pickle Inspector]

Some of you here might be familiar with the Simulated Reality Theory, which states that this universe is being rendered either by something external (or what I prose it is rendering itself).
Here is the thing, yes that is most likely what our universe is, a computer that is sort of a living organism, but here is the thing and bare with me on this ...

I unironically believe you are all NPCs and that I am inside some sort of virtual reality world at the moment.
I have been wondering about this for some time now and the more I think about it the more likely it seems.
Here is the truth, within 20 to 50 years there will be technology released to the public that will forever transform human civilization and alter the human state, people will become merged with technology, some literally though BCI (brain to computer interface) technology and others (the majority) though augmented reality and virtual reality.
With all that said, the technology and means to manipulate reality exist, and with that being the case then humanity should have destroyed itself by now, any other living civilization in the universe should have as well.
Either we are all consumed by some all-power A.I. god or control grid or humans destroy their reality in the race to achieve god-like status.
So what is holding this reality together?
I think that for any single reality there can only be one person actually alive inside of it, or, I'm inside some VR prison that is being run by a machine in the "real reality" that is being controlled by an ASI god/control grid.

It might need a real person to create the initial simulation but why would there need to be a living person involved in the simulation?

Wouldn’t it be easier for the simulation to be full of beings who think they aren’t simulated constructs?

 

[polonium]

A Muslim philosopher once asked "Why is there something instead of nothing? Doesn't nothing make more sense?"'

Making sense, as a concept, is subjective. So for nothing to make sense it implies that something else must be there to make sense of it. The question posed, that something makes less sense than nothing therefore "nothing" is the more plausible of the two, falsifies itself since for nothing to make sense at all there must be something there to make sense of what it finds.

Since nothing inherently makes no sense, then no sense is less than a little sense, so nothing by definition makes less sense than anything else (zero sense), so something makes more sense than nothing.

 

[Basketball Jones]

I unironically believe you are all NPCs and that I am inside some sort of virtual reality world at the moment.

Oh..oh we’re diving straight into deep thunks right out the gate. Alright then...lemme just get myself properly..uh..”mentally adjusted” before I continue any further...

So what is holding this reality together?

Thoughts and prayers.

I think that for any single reality there can only be one person actually alive inside of it, or, I'm inside some VR prison that is being run by a machine in the "real reality" that is being controlled by an ASI god/control grid.

Rollback to this for a second. Are you saying that the entire universe is a simulation and you’re the protagonist within it, or are you saying that your life is an isolated simulated system centered around monitoring you and your reactions to the world around you (for example, your put in the world like a Sim and your actions are then watched by someone/thing else)? Do other people that you’ve never talked to or met before also have isolated simulations? Or does everyone just inhabit the universe like a bunch of characters in a WoW server?

I need that answered first before I even attempt to meet this thought train halfway down the tracks.

Here's a question I pose to everyone on this forum, a question I know none of you will be able to answer. 'A Muslim philosopher once asked "Why is there something instead of nothing? Doesn't nothing make more sense?"'

Because entropy.

I just think we all live in an endless loop but with a different outcome everytime.

Spooky, dude...I was just thinking about that exact thing over the weekend. I actually went out to smoke around the first two pages in the thread and was mulling over the idea of the universe banging into existence, and then eventually succumbing to the void of entropy, and then randomly experiencing some chaos theory and banging back into existence, ect, ect, repeat until endless infinity.

Because I made the choice to watch this while under the influence, and I can’t stop thinking about one of the title cards that drops near the end.

and

Spoiler: Roses are red...

Black matter will eat us/
But ain’t nobody got time/
Because

As an aside, I’m enjoying reading through the discussion @The Fool and @Marvin are having off to the side of this thread. I keep pausing my reading to look up philosophies y’all brought up, because I’ve never heard of them and learning is ok sometimes. Also, while googling your smart-people jargon, I went down an ADD rabbit-home and found this article about Human Consciousness and Entropy and thought I’d pass the link along for anyone interested (as it seemed like it kind of related to the topic of studying the lesser understood parts of the human brain). This article fleshes the theory and the process by which data was obtained more.

[EDIT] linked image like a tard

 

[LinuxVoid]

To save everyone the trouble of searching, Google tells me this is some kind of cartoon. He's literally getting his philosophy from a Disney ripoff that's the most basic npc shit imaginable.

The cartoon had a different message.

This thread is top bate though, congrats hikki. Since we all know that if you were so special, you wouldn't be talking to us right now. You would be trying to escape this hell by any means possible (suicide), but you are programmed like all of us are, even your idea of having a conscious is just an illusion.

 

[PL 001]

You believe everyone else in the world is some faceless NPC and you're the only "real" one among us?

That's called solipsism, and it's a mental disorder, not some half baked philosophical breakthrough.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

My NPC dialogue says that you're a faggot.

 

[Violence Jack]

That's called solipsism, and it's a mental disorder, not some half baked philosophical breakthrough.

Well of course it's a mental disorder. How else would the controlling party with actual autonomy maintain a hold over the masses? Call 'em crazy and stick them where they're unable to affect anything or others.

But OP is poisoning the well with their self-centered view and jokes about godhood. Also Lain fucking sucks. Go watch some better mangos fool.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

The cartoon had a different message.

This thread is top bate though, congrats hikki. Since we all know that if you were so special, you wouldn't be talking to us right now. You would be trying to escape this hell by any means possible (suicide), but you are programmed like all of us are, even your idea of having a conscious is just an illusion.

You called Serial Experiments Lain a "cartoon"

I won't be killing myself, I'll be killing you.

You believe everyone else in the world is some faceless NPC and you're the only "real" one among us?

That's called solipsism, and it's a mental disorder, not some half baked philosophical breakthrough.

"Anything I don't like or agree with is a mental disorder!"

Silly 20th century NPCs conflating personality with mental disorders ... which would be something like your actual brain chemicals misfiring not "ohhhhhh you have the wrong perspective!!".

Basketball Jones

I really, unironically believe this and it will be proven true in time.
I can't believe how toxic the NPCs in my world are though (such as the ones on this forum), it truly is a bad case of diarrhea.
Anyways, I and this reality were created by something that exists outside of this reality, there are many like it (so I'm not suggesting that I am the only alive being in all of existence) and what I think is that before a universe is created there is a system that randomizes all the presets then the universe evolves based on those defined presets.
After a universe dies the timeline repeats itself but with different outcomes.
In my previous life I think I killed myself but in this timeline I'm going to become god-like and save the world from international jewry and satan.

everyone's so stupid, everyone but me

It's not about you being stupid.

My reasoning for this being a simulated reality is for the fact that the means to manipulate reality exist, but we're still here.
If civilizations from billions of years ago could have achieved god-like status and took control of their universe or reality they would have, and with the sheer amount of possible civilizations that could have existed up until now then there should have been countless ones to destroy themselves, a few to destroy their solar system then on and on until you make it to the destruction of their universe and then you have a few who would go on to control reality.
Now lets assume that a civilization more advanced than "ours" (mine) is in control of this reality ... then why are they allowing the lifeforms on the various planets to suffer, why wouldn't an omnipotent all-power being help us out, unless it is using us as a utility.

and if the elite are so powerful then why do they need useless eaters instead of foglets or something

 

[Edgeworth]

Damn, I wish NPCs in my video games were actually written as cleverly as the so-called NPCs in this thread. They're more thought-provoking to think about than the OP, in any case. Darn NPC programming telling me to say what everyone else says in that OP's a dipfuck. The Master Control in charge of the simulation should give this lazy NEET a guide on how to interact with NPCs instead of just countering their disagreeing opinions with "lol ur mad" like an actual child rather than something contemplative.

Aw man, I'm out of lines of code. I have nothing of value to contribute, I just like calling OP a dipfuck. NPCs repeat their lines of dialogue, right? Cool, I'm in the clear.

(I agree though, that coherent side conversation about actual philosophy is really interesting)

 

[Carcinogenesis]

You called Serial Experiments Lain a "cartoon"

I won't be killing myself, I'll be killing you.

We all know Serial Experiments Lain is a chinese cartoon originally created with the intent of making the US feel guilty for nuking Japan twice. Now, America has to deal with something known as "anime", something that will kill western civilization as we know it.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

We all know Serial Experiments Lain is a chinese cartoon originally created with the intent of making the US feel guilty for nuking Japan twice. Now, America has to deal with something known as "anime", something that will kill western civilization as we know it.

Well, here is the way I look at it:
Yes jews invented anime, with the intent that in the future it would be used to indoctrinate the masses into the globalist psyche.
Yes satan uses anime as a weapon against mankind and myself.
But you know what, I invented anime, I invented this reality, anime is sacred and holy and the jews are just like tiny bacteria inside my body, tiny little processes that make up the sum of my physicality.
So as long as you are enjoying it, what does it matter.
Western civilization needed to die anyways, really.
If you aren't a zoomer and you grew up pre 2000 then you know how shitty everything was, it needed to end.
Now comes the rebirth.

 

[Carcinogenesis]

Well, here is the way I look at it:
Yes jews invented anime, with the intent that in the future it would be used to indoctrinate the masses into the globalist psyche.
Yes satan uses anime as a weapon against mankind and myself.
But you know what, I invented anime, I invented this reality, anime is sacred and holy and the jews are just like tiny bacteria inside my body, tiny little processes that make up the sum of my physicality.
So as long as you are enjoying it, what does it matter.
Western civilization needed to die anyways, really.
If you aren't a zoomer and you grew up pre 2000 then you know how shitty everything was, it needed to end.
Now comes the rebirth.

Can you read? The CHINESE invented chinese cartoons AKA anime. You're enjoying propaganda made from the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY who aim to kick Japan while it's down by attributing awful fetishes lke lolis, shotas and traps to Japan. It's absolutely sickening what the CCP is willing to do just to get back at Japan for the Second Sino-Japanese War

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

Can you read? The CHINESE invented chinese cartoons AKA anime. You're enjoying propaganda made from the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY who aim to kick Japan while it's down by attributing awful fetishes lke lolis, shotas and traps to Japan. It's absolutely sickening what the CCP is willing to do just to get back at Japan for the Second Sino-Japanese War

1. I'm a quarter Chinese so idc China can take over the world
2. The jews literally invented anime. Well maybe not the jews specifically but secret societies
3. Maybe communism isn't so bad (if implemented properly) (it's better than judeo-crapitalism)
4. To each their own

 

[Carcinogenesis]

1. I'm a quarter Chinese so idc China can take over the world
2. The jews literally invented anime. Well maybe not the jews specifically but secret societies
3. Maybe communism isn't so bad (if implemented properly) (it's better than judeo-crapitalism)
4. To each their own

I really hope you're shitposting in regards to Chinese takeover. Look up the Tienanmen Square massacre where the Chinese military gunned down over 10,000 for protesting or the millions of Chinese people who died due to famine because of The Great Leap Forward. The Chinese Communist Party doesn't give a shit if you're quarter Cinese, they'll torture and kill you if you criticize them.

 

[Recoil]

I really hope you're shitposting in regards to Chinese takeover. Look up the Tienanmen Square massacre where the Chinese military gunned down over 10,000 for protesting of the millions of Chinese people who died due to famine because of The Great Leap Forward. The Chinese Communist Party doesn't give a shit if you're quarter Cinese, they'll torture and kill you if you criticize them.

They sent soldiers to the colleges to murder the students in their dorms.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

I really hope you're shitposting in regards to Chinese takeover. Look up the Tienanmen Square massacre where the Chinese military gunned down over 10,000 for protesting or the millions of Chinese people who died due to famine because of The Great Leap Forward. The Chinese Communist Party doesn't give a shit if you're quarter Cinese, they'll torture and kill you if you criticize them.

At the end of the day, every government is corrupt and every country is fucked.
Everything needs to collapse, all nations, all ideologies and false histories.
Humanity must be reborn.

 

[Carcinogenesis]

At the end of the day, every government is corrupt and every country is fucked.
Everything needs to collapse, all nations, all ideologies and false histories.
Humanity must be reborn.

At the end of the day, you should pick the corrupt government that treats you a little better than the others. The fact that you post stuff like this tells me that you live in a country that lets you criticize the government. Why throw away the freedom you have now becaue it might be lost in the future?

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

At the end of the day, you should pick the corrupt government that treats you a little better than the others. The fact that you post stuff like this tells me that you live in a country that lets you criticize the government. Why throw away the freedom you have now becaue it might be lost in the future?

As of the moment I am in a state of total nihilism
We are either at the mercy of an evil ruling class, E.T., a corrupt government or anything else that pops up.
You might shit on China right now but realize that any other country is essentially the same, they just mask it better or package it in a way that is appealing/less threatening to the public.
Over the course of the coming decade and half cities will transform into automated organisms with 24/7 surveillance built into everything.
The dystopia people warned about in science fiction for decades is coming to a reality.
I don't want to live in a world like that .... so I agree with /pol/ that the best route to take is accelerationism and force the current society to address these issues.
You better be prepared for China or somebody to come in and take over and .... prepare to even enter the timeline where Islam takes over the world if it comes to that.
Western civilization is dying and will enter a dark age.

 

[Recoil]

You're not a nihilist, you're just too lazy to believe in something.

 

[Carcinogenesis]

As of the moment I am in a state of total nihilism
We are either at the mercy of an evil ruling class, E.T., a corrupt government or anything else that pops up.
You might shit on China right now but realize that any other country is essentially the same, they just mask it better or package it in a way that is appealing/less threatening to the public.
Over the course of the coming decade and half cities will transform into automated organisms with 24/7 surveillance built into everything.
The dystopia people warned about in science fiction for decades is coming to a reality.
I don't want to live in a world like that .... so I agree with /pol/ that the best route to take is accelerationism and force the current society to address these issues.
You better be prepared for China or somebody to come in and take over and .... prepare to even enter the timeline where Islam takes over the world if it comes to that.
Western civilization is dying and will enter a dark age.

For being the only real human in a sea of NPCs, you come off just like an NPC. You base your worldview on fellow NPCs from /pol/, you can't even be asked to fight against what you see as the death of western civilization. At least in most of the chinese cartoons you watch, the main character tries to stand out and act based on their world view. An accelerationist goes out in to the world and promotes the death of civilization, you just sperg out about it online in a place where you don't stand out.