RphWrites , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels Report
There’s something about meticulously peeling back the layers of ‘reality’ to get to the Truth (capital ‘T’) of how the universe actually works that is entrancing. After all, we can’t always trust our senses. Even our memories can be faulty.
The idea that there’s something much deeper going on with the world is easy to believe if you’ve ever read about quantum physics, even superficially. Quantum entanglement, tunneling, and wave-particle duality, anyone?
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asq1616 , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report
According to philosopher Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper ‘Are You Living in a Computer Simulation,’ there’s a significant chance that we exist in a simulation if advanced civilizations are capable of creating complex simulations inhabited by simulated conscious beings. Of course, we would have to assume that those advanced civilizations are even interested in running realistic simulations at all.
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For it, the world that it’s seeing, including its perception of its body, would be ‘real.’ Some philosophers claim that there’s no surefire way of knowing that we aren’t brains in vats if the simulation is good enough. That suggests, rather uncomfortably, that we’d never be able to find out what Reality (with a capital ‘R’) truly is.
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According to them, the topic resonated with so many people because there are so many unexplainable strange things that happen to us. “There’s just so many people who have probably experienced (the same) weird things happen to them, and for people to be able to share on that Reddit thread and see that they’re not the only ones who’ve experienced it—it was probably quite a relief!”
However, from the author’s perspective, everyone who saw or participated in the discussion might not necessarily enjoy the idea that we might live in a simulation so much as the fact that it’s an interesting topic to think about. “It becomes quite philosophical the more you think about it. And the more you think about it, the more you go down the rabbit hole. If I’m inside a simulation, well, what’s outside the simulation?” they mused.
SleepingUnderARock , Pieter Brueghel the Elder / Wikipedia Report
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ThtPhatCat , Arthur Brognoli / pexels Report
“It would cause everything as we know it to change: religion, politics, relationships, etc. I don’t think it would be a good thing for the public to know about, honestly. It would probably cause a lot of chaos. People likely would question whether or not anything they do even matters,” u/DawsonD43 said.
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Comfortable_Crab_988 , Yan Krukau / pexels Report
bishophicks , Karolina Kaboompics / pexels Report
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Feel free to tell us all about it in the comments… and if you get an overwhelming feeling of déjà vu, don’t panic—an Agent will soon be with you.
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StorytellerGG , MART PRODUCTION / pexels Report
NoahCWNorrad , Julia M Cameron / pexels Report
Baggabones88 , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report
Ormyr , Gustavo Fring / pexels Report
Gnostic_Gnocchi , RDNE Stock project / pexels Report
TheAmazingCrisco , Sam Felde / flickr Report
RedditAccountOhBoy , Ron Lach / pexels Report
Marx0r , World Sikh Organization of Canada / pexels Report
SuvenPan , Lucas Pezeta / pexels Report
Ok_Relationship_705 , KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA / pexels Report
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