With the way technology is going some day soon people will be able to enter simulations that appear real. I mean I'm a normal dude for the most part but this something I really do believe and isn't that insane when you really think about it but I would be labed a crazy person if I were to speak about this to anyone. Our world is just too fucked up and crazy to be real. The fact that we're all just randomly here with no answers on how we got here is fucking retarded.

I just wrote a short story that got published about this. The universe is infinite in every way possible. That means we are likey a simulation within a simulation X infinity. and when you get to the real universe, its a hologram on a black hole which is in a universe projected on a black hole X infinity

>>2
Yeah and Doctor Brain Cox said the same kind on thing on his show Wonders of the Universe.

So in a practical sense it doesn't really matter.

>>2
Our minds can't even comprehend any of that. Which is why I find our existence so terrifying yet hilarious at the same time.

The cosmic significance is that we are all the playthings of God. And we will be that God some day

>>2

The universe is infinite in every way possible

This isn't really accurate. The universe is big, incomprehensibly massive, but even yet, it is still finite, so the notion that every possible reality is being played out somewhere is a fallacy.

>>1
yeah i've thought about this too, but the question is. can it ever be possible to have technology so advanced that it can simulate an infinite amount of particles. think about it, every piece of sand has to be simulated, every single electron has to be actively account for in the simulation, every star has to have electrons that are account for it's just too much shit. i just can't imagine that any species will ever have the technology to handle this type of simulation.

>>8
Dude look how far technology has came in 40 years, it's fucking crazy. The internet has connected the entire world and video games are getting more and more life-like as time goes on. Microsoft HoloLens etc.

Do you REALLY think it's impossible?

>>8
that doesn't mean they don't exist. We couldn't imagine a lot of stuff 1000 years ago. they thought the world was a flat disk, and all the evidence pointed to that.

>>9
They're most likely us, because im a determinist and humans are the peak of evolution.

This is like an any trying to understand the mind of a human.
Fuck it and get your sugar for the queen like the rest of us cunts or be a bum nigger.
That's your choice

Actually a lot of people find it suspicious to some extent that there is a definite speed of light, almost everything we observe can be accounted for by mathematics, etc. I've heard a lot of theories that say, for example, that the speed of light is finite and a exact number in particular (299,792,458 m/s) just because it was easier to "code" that way. That along with all the other strange phenomena in our universe.

Also I guess Quantum Mechanics is just based off a really fucking good RNG generator.

>>1
lol op thinks he lives in the matrix.
I, for one, believe our world is very real and that it matches perfectly the definition of hell.

>>9
ok but how could a simulation be simulating an infinite universe. if the universe is infinite, than the amount of power a simulation needs to run also must be infinite.

our only frame of reference for the advancement of technology is our supposedly simulated reality's advancement of technology

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>>15
Who says it doesn't run off the power that we create? A self sustaining system as long as we continue to fuel it?

>>9
You're speaking from a position of ignorance. You embrace too many logical misgivings, determined to lend credibility to this suspect notion.

>>16

Niggers

kill yourself.

>>15
You're misunderstanding what I mean but I get you. Have you traveled an infinite universe in your lifetime so far? No. Are you going to? No.

Hypothetically the simulation would only need to go as far as you go in life, which is your home country and maybe a few others on holiday.

Just food for thought.

>>11

humans are the peak of evolution

Humans are unbelievably imperfect creatures. While we might do the best in our environment as compared to all the other species on Earth, I would hardly say we are the "peak".

Our eyes are pretty shit, simple pictures can fuck our brain out of commission (optical illusions), our perceptions are easily distorted, disease still runs rampant, etc. We still have a lot of evolving to do before we reach whatever "peak" evolution can hit.

>>16
I hate how people go on about how advanced the human mind is. Look at the world we live in and sort it the fuck out. Fantasizing about a computer world just excuses people from having to do shit about the actual world

>>18
Please explain yourself in laymans terms, I'm an idiot.

>>7
In less you believe in the multi verse theory

>>15
this is implying that the machine running the simulation exists in a world governed by the same laws as ours. there is no way we can possibly comprehend how this outer world works, so to say that it even requires power is a huge guess

The fact that we're all just randomly here with no answers on how we got here is fucking retarded.

lmao, couldn't have said it better myself

>>16
This would be one of those great viral pranks. Just plaster this everywhere across the internet and fuck with people.

>>1

I genuinely believe our reality is a novel.
With the way science fiction is going some day soon people will be able to read stories that feel real. I mean I'm a normal dude for the most part but this something I really do believe and isn't that insane when you really think about it but I would be labeled a crazy person if I were to speak about this to anyone. Our world is just too fucked up and crazy to be real. The fact that we're all just randomly here with no answers on how we got here is fucking retarded.

>>26
Hahaha yeah I could have worded the shit a little better but you get what I mean.

>>2
That sounds terrible. You must write great characters or have gotten published somewhere really shitty.

Not necessarily a simulation, but there's definitely some weird shit going on, feels like there's more to it... the way Atheists see it seems a bit two dimensional imho...

>>15
Universe is infinitely expanding, but it is not infinite:

...

I thought about this too OP. Let's for example take ghosts in pacman. They were programmed to react to patterns in said way.
Who are humans? We are just ghosts in pacman, thousand times smaller. If we could program them, how come someone couldnt program us? And everything around us to act in a pattern. We interact with eachother, thus we are creating gameplay. If something new happens in our lives, we either observe it or ignore it. New food, girls, things like that. And everything works on many hard chemic reactions in our brain. Lets say you could program a human from its birth. Give it an ability to percieve things in a manner you want it to percieve things. Act in a certain way, do things in a certain manner. And what do you have out of it? Maybe enjoyment.
Its a good show isnt it? All that unwanted drama, all the new things in your life that happen SO fucking randomly. Have you ever thought about things you did, but they didnt have to happen? Not just that, things on this world that didnt have to happen, random sets of events that led to, I dont know, wars? New technologies, discoveries?
How about all those unexplained things that happened in the world? You cant find the solutions, it doesnt make sense. And you know why? Its simply ilogical for those things to happen.

Shit

Kill yourselves to find out. Quit trying to escape reality with this bullshit. You're stuck here with the rest of us until you die.

>>1
Yeah, I really doubt youll be labelled a crazy person if you talked about this because this thread proves that others have wondered the same thing and its a great discussion topic. Also, if no one discusses it, then we will never make progress towards discovering the truth.

Can't be a simulation.
There wouldn't be enough room in the 'server' to hold the infinite number of digits in a repeating number i.e. pi π. or 0.99999999... repeating forever.
Infinite amount of repeating digits or an unending number = infinite amount of data.

thanks michael from vsauce

>>30
Yeah I feel you. Atheists are just as dumb as shit as Christians. Just have an open mind because at the end of the day nobody has any fucking idea.

>>33

every piece of sand has to be simulated, every single electron has to be actively account for in the simulation

Not at all, only the things that are being directly observed need to be simulated and accounted for.
As soon as someone stops looking at a grain of sand through a microscope, that level of precision and detail is unnecessary to simulate.

>>31
So what are we then if we realize all of this shit? Rogue AI? God damn it my niggas I'm too high for this shit, someone take the wheel.

>>36
there's a theory for that

>>1
OP life is not a simulation,
We know this because it is impossible for a computer to understand irrational numbers such as pi or the square root of 2. Just look it up on youtube, Vsauce does an excellent job of clarifying this. Also this site does it too

>>1
you're a human, living on earth.
there are planets out there 4x+ the size of earth.

you are insignificant in a cosmic sense.
get over it.
get on with life.