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This is an embarassing but serious question, how do I know if I am living in virtual reality, and how do I get out if I do not know that I am playing a game? I am completely serious.
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  • Fitz Jones
    What makes you think you aren’t an NPC?
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Fitz Jones excuse my ignorance, but what is an NPC please?
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    • Fitz Jones
      ‘Non Player Character’
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Fitz Jones ok, so does that mean I am a quadriplegic and my whole life has been VR so I can walk? I an confused and to the point where I think I may be AI. I need to know the answers coz I do not want to end up crazy. Did somebody put a headset on me while I was sleeping? What do I do?
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    • Fitz Jones
      You are basically describing the problem that is ‘Simulation Theory’ and the simple answer is there may be no way of knowing if we are living in a simulation, however the statistical probability favours that we are in a simulation. Personally I try to favour prime numbers in everything I do to stress the simulation to see if it slows down.
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Fitz Jones but I know I am an inny, I have always lived like this but how do ppl get out? I want out because ppl are playing tricks on me as characters
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    • Fitz Jones
      Well there may not be an ‘out’ at all. This may in fact be ‘base reality’.
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    • Mark Strachan
      I think, therefore I am - Descarte. Hell is other people - Camus. You provide your own meaning - every existentialist. Suicide is painless - the theme from MASH. Much of philosophy addresses many of these issues.
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    • Ramin Assadollahi
      Lace'e Jean Do you have an idea how could you find out whether you are an AI or not?
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  • GIF anhalten
    GIF könnte matrix, There Is No Spoon, talking und kid beinhalten
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  • Adam Chapman
    Tap the area near the side of your head and if everything looks like a pass-through view, you definitely were in VR.
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  • Doug Lowe
    The question that will really keep you up at night is “are you on the right path, or wasting your life on meaningless side quests?”
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    • Mark Strachan
      Robert Greene has an excellent take on this in his book 'Mastery'
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  • Kasper Olesen
    That is a question scientists have asked for years. Is our reality simulation? How can we know? No clear answer yet, its something they keep thinking about. Some are certain it is simulated arguing the statistics just makes it unlikely for our reality not to be simulated.
    Personally I would argue its unlikely and that we cannot know the statistics for how likely or unlikely it is for us to live in a simulated reality. But I do think we would have found a way to test it by now if we were since have been looking into it for several years.
    Without better evidence for us living in a simulated reality, I think its pointless to argue that we do live in a simulated reality. I guess it might also make it pointless to argue that we do not.
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    • Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer
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      Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer
      Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer
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    • Mark Strachan
      Much of physics is pointing at the universe being a distributed computing device. Some even point to structures that look like turing machines and memory of many types and flavors. The speed of light can be related to speed of memory update across distrubted computing memory.
      The questions become - is the universe a hypercomputer that knows all the answers already... what rules does the computer use to run, or does it execute all rules simultaneously? Is this the largest computer? What is time? Does it work the same way outside the computer--probably not since its relative within it.
      We likely understand the universe as a computer because our minds project that over the cypher of complexity that is the universe, as the best tool we have to understand it. We are computers so we see the universe as computers, a relection of ourselves in the mirror of nature.
      At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. We're here, dealing with now. We are in the situation we're in. We're live the best life if we attend to what we can, here and now. The computer we're in spends loooooots of computation just maintaining spacetime. We're very lucky to have all those free computing resources churning away. Lets use them for something cool.
      If we were in nested russian doll style universes it doesn't matter much, since we couldn't even imagine the other forms of life possible in the infinite combinations _this_ one offers in the combinations of configurations it has for us now.
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  • Manuel Delaflor
    It's called Nirvana, Kensho, Satori.
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  • Alberto Formica Esposto
    Good morning! Nice day for fishing, ain't it? Hu-hu!
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  • Taylor Oliphant
    You can't know anything for sure because human knowledge is subjective which precludes any sort of objective awareness. However, you can be reasonably sure about certain things. For one, you've never experienced the world outside of your mind. So all you know is the inside of your mind and its interpretation of reality. In that way you are living in a virtualized conception of reality. As for getting out of it, I'm not so sure you can entirely, but meditation seems to be the go to mechanism for that. So I'd look into studies about how meditation impacts cognitive function.
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  • Yorick van de Haar
    Maybe we are living in a simulation https://youtu.be/_gduUeX0N4Q
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  • Tony Moore
    Do the shadow tests from Dr who
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  • Zeke Brill
    Why does it matter?
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Zeke Brill because characters are becoming an infinite number of ppl looking like one character.
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    • Mark Strachan
      And space is nothing, related to nothing, forming structures from that nothing into something. We're all something and nothing.
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    • Jim Groth
      Lace'e Jean Odds are that if we live in a simulation it's not like a game with a few players, but rather a simulation on the level of physics.
      What you see around you is real, regardless of HOW it is real.
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  • D'An Knowles Ball
    My child asked me this at 3 years old: “Am I am an avatar? Am I real?” Yes, in essence, philosophically - avatar and gollum are very old concepts theologically/culturally for humanity as both spiritual representations in an earthy realm or a practical reality (consciousness of A reality and what is “real” is a spectrum - not black and white per se).
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    • Philip Timm
      D'An Knowles Ball Your 3 year old undestands the concept of avatars, do they? That's awfully impressive. You're very lucky. My 3 year old sucks on felt tip pen nibs. Wait. She just stopped doing that to say "Hey, Daddy, remember that not EVERYTHING that people write on social media is completely honest and accurate. Use your rational thinking, and treat it with a healthy dose of skepticism, mm'kay?" She then peed herself.
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    • D'An Knowles Ball
      Philip Timm fair point. I don’t want to be That Parent and post videos of my kid when they were young for complete strangers in a digital space to counterpoint. Seems odd. (And they were our first child so hard to know what’s ‘normal’... even now). But their father and I both work in game design in different capacities so the kids always grew up around headsets, avatar design, UX testing, level mapping, etc. and have been involved in what we do. Turns out the kids we spawned have actually spawned OUR most creative design projects and most complex philosophical research questions. That’s been unexpected and amazing. Aside: my response at the time was “Do YOU think you’re real?” Even now at 10, they said last week at the park, “If this world is a simulation, the CGI is incredible!!” LOL
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  • Sam Vennard
    Let's say you found out that it was. What you gonna do about it? Nothing. So just enjoy whatever this life is and find what makes you happy.
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  • Sean Tighe
    Just look at distant grass and plants. LOD settings in real life are maxed out.
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  • Miguelangelo Rosario
    you are in virtual reality when everything makes sense...you are in reality when a lot of things don't make sense...
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  • Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer
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  • Dario Carnelutti
    So... The Matrix movie concept? Take the red pill just in case
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  • Curtis Smith
    Read Sophie's World
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  • Mark Bonagofski
    Play the best run you can and know that you'll get one of the good endings.
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  • Hugo Rajado
    Puttting down the drugs should help ?
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    • Tony Moore
      Hugo Rajado questioning reality isn't a symptom of drug abuse, it's a symptom of intelligence
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    • Hugo Rajado
      Tony Moore questioning reality is becoming a scientist, not asking a bunch of randoms that play best saber and minecraft how to get out of the matrix lol
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    • Tony Moore
      Hugo Rajado not everybody was born with the privilege nessacary to make that happen
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    • Hugo Rajado
      Tony Moore ah the usual victim speech again. Early school is still free for everyone, stop making excuses
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    • Mark Strachan
      Drugs are made of chemistry. Food is made of chemistry. We're made of chemistry. Stop maligning chemistry.
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    • Philip Timm
      Tony Moore Serious question: WTF does privilege have to do with this? The privilege of what? Access to education? Is it possible to be too woke? Yes. Yes, I think it is.
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    • Ethan Miller
      Hugo Rajado fucking savage my man
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  • Omar El Sayyed
    You only have your senses and your ability to reason about things. If your senses or your ability to reason are faulty, or at least tampered with, you may have no real way to know the truth.
    But assuming that they are not, then as far as one can conclude, this conversation is taking place in a real world. Real as in we have souls, and vessels that contain them. But is this the only reality that we may live in, or could this reality be the prologue of another reality? This is a question worth answering. Luckily, the fourth wall has been broken many times, and you can conclude with confidence (again, per our reasoning abilities) that this is not the only life we are going to live. You only have to use your brain.
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Omar El Sayyed but I do not know if I am smart enough
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    • Omar El Sayyed
      Lace'e Jean You ask smart questions, you certainly are smart enough.
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    • Mark Strachan
      You don't know for sure you have a soul. You have only faith. Faith could be a lie. That's why its faith. You can't prove faith right. You also can't prove it wrong. That's why its faith. Trust wouldn't exist if everything were certain.
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    • Omar El Sayyed
      Mark Strachan Again, the amount of things that you can prove depend on the amount of reason that was bestowed upon you. The soundness of a certain logic depends on the world that you live in. And whether this is reality or a simulation, the best we can do is to trust our reason, and believe that there are things that lie beyond our ability to reason. That's what we call faith.
      When I enter the bathroom and I see the toilet hasn't been flushed, I immediately come to the conclusion that someone did it, this stuff didn't manifest on its own. And I'm not wrong when I make this conclusion. If we lived in a world where it's common place for things to pop out into existence then that would be the logic of that world and I would have reasoned about what I saw differently.
      So, according to our reason, things don't just happen. That's perfectly valid wherever you apply it in this world. The world goes by this rule in every nook and cranny. Yet, according to the same reason, this world cannot exist at all, for what caused the initial cause? For this, we conclude that our reason is not perfect, that something goes beyond our reason, something that is free from the chains of our sound logic forces this world to exist. This is all logical and sound, and that's where faith comes in.
      So, having faith isn't naive, it's the only logical thing that we can do, as long as it's properly tied to what is considered by our logic as sensible. So, if I came to the conclusion that a cause (a creator) that's outside our domain of reason exists, then I can as well assume that there are loads of other things that I cannot comprehend but still exist.
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    • Mark Strachan
      The amount of things I can prove does not only depend on the amount of reason bestowed on me, it also depends on the amount of provable things I choose to look at. The soundness of a system of logic depends on the structure of that system of logic, as it is created, since all logic is mathematical structure organized by those who conceived it--it is a structure strictly made of symbolic language, and cannot exist without those symbols, which were created by people. Reason is in your head, and the minds of others, and nowhere else.
      The universe contains systems which appear to manage transactional shared perspectives across observers. We live in a universe which contains virtual particle interactions, where matter appears out of nothing and then disappears again. We can observe this when we examine the vacuum.
      Logic is fundamentally and provably limited as demonstrated by Godel's incompleteness theorem. You can show logic is limited using logic on its own, without relying on the state of the universe to do so. This prevents logic from destroying faith; it can't. All it can do is prove faith has a place on its own.
      If you start in a logical system, with an assumption that false is true, you can prove anything you want. If you choose to take that path, that's your problem, and your prerogative, and there is no natural judgement that can be made about that.
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  • Sarah Jäckel
    Where is the difference between a simulation and a non-simulation? Both follow rules, both are incredibly complex, both keep you trapped in your own mind. You won't see or feel the difference. We could even live in an instance of multiple simulations. If there is a logic in "whoever may develop the technology to simulate it all will do so" would lead to "whoever develops the technology to simulate it all within a simulation will simulate it all" - and so on. Furthermore, the statistics: there are certain fundamental numbers and constants which are exactly where simulation specialists would set them to keep a simulation from getting surreal complicated. On the other hand, we are imho not even close to understanding the complexity of "reality". Every step deeper into knowledge seems to be a step away from understandable ideas like matter, time, direction. Is there only one electron but everywhere at once in a span of billion years? Is there anything like time at all? Is entropy reversible? Is matter only a state of energy and is energy only a state of nothingness?
    Is god a coder?
    Or a DJ?
    Or are we living in a planet-sized SNS cartridge, and some idiot forgot to blow the connectors, so we are constantly glitching?
    I guess I'll have a cup of tea, put on my shoes and have a photowalk.
    Real or simulated, sunsets are here to enjoy.
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  • Zul Hillman
    You will know once you expire lol.....treat life as a RPG or JRPG to have the most fun
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  • Hayk Amirbekyan
    You are surely living in a simulation by all accounts of logic and reason. Enjoy it. Why would you want to leave ?
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Hayk Amirbekyan because nobody stays the same person, they are all characters with multiple operators. I cannot handle it I trust nobody because of this fact
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    • Hayk Amirbekyan
      Lace'e Jean how boring would it be if the characters were all static and not dynamic ? Would you rather read a book with static predictable characters or a book in which characters evolve over time based on their experiences ?
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    • Nissim Hadar
      Hayk Amirbekyan No - that is wrong. The whole "simulation hypothesis" is nonsense.
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    • Nissim Hadar
      You actually ARE living in virtual reality, in some sense, as your only knowledge is from your senses.
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  • Abesh Thakur
    If you are getting frame drops pretty regularly, and you can link global warming to basically an RTX 3090 heating up then you have your answer
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  • Christian Rosenhauer
    If you are living in a virtual reality isnt it a reality than ? So just lean back and enjoy. One day your energy is running low and system will shut down.
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  • Gara Khachadour
    There's a "break the fourth wall potion" in Trump's ass, hope this helps. I'm serious
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  • Philip Timm
    Relax. You're just REALLY really high right now. Take a nap ?
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Philip Timm that has nothing to do with the fact that ppl are different from minute to minute or location to location even though they still look like the same character ?
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    • Chris Esposito
      Thats some exceptional cannabis
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    • Mark Strachan
      Change is the only constant.
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    • Ethan Miller
      Lace'e Jean That's just people. We all put on different faces depending on who we are with. I act different around my parents than I do my friends. i act different around my wife than I do my coworkers. What you see as a vr conspiracy is just human nature.
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  • Jim Groth
    We can't really know if we live in a simulation. The only sensible thing is to treat what we think is reality as if it actually is reality.
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    • Lace'e Jean
      Jim Groth so I can never have a steady boyfriend? Everybody is just a character with different operators and I have to accept that? No i cannot accept that
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    • Jim Groth
      Lace'e Jean Everybody might be part of the simulation. There is no way to know, but that changes nothing. Life is life, regardless of if the underlying engine is quantum mechanics or Unit3D.
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    • Ethan Miller
      Lace'e Jean No one is a character being controlled by an operator. People act different when they're around different social groups.
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  • Justin Rosete
    If there's a headset strapped to your face and you have a narrow field of vision, then you're in VR.
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  • Panayot Cankov
    Start by watching the matrix, animatrix and inception...
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  • GIF anhalten
    GIF könnte Bye, Goodbye, Disappear, Vanish, Artemis, Art3mis, Ready Player One und Ready Player One Gifs beinhalten
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  • Sinclair Cunningham
    Nobody truly knows mwahahahahajajajahajajahajajajjajjajaaaajajnjjajhhahahaaaaa
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  • Craig Tuohy
    Do loads of DMT. You'll get out of the matrix really quickly
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  • Leo Sieczka
    Nobody knows these answers. Study philosophy and you’ll have a good guess but that’s it
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  • Sascha Ledinsky
    Take the red pill.
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  • Mike Peredo
    If the simulation is good enough (or even if it isn't) i don't think there's a difference from the POV of the "simulated". This is your/our reality. I'm not the religious type but if this is a simulation it would imply some kind of intelligent design. Even if it was a crappy simulation we wouldn't know the difference any more than a flatlander would know what a sphere is. So it very well could be.
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    • Panayot Cankov
      Mike Peredo It would be interesting only if we find a way to interact with the outer world. Either by forcing our creator to manifest in some way by changing stuff, drain excessive resources to shut ourselves down in a way that we would understand it, like reaching Minecraft’s outer lands. Or like a game of life becoming self aware, hacking your router and ordering excessive amounts of pizza delivery on creator’s credit card. If something like this doesn’t happen, and we can’t break our sandbox, everything that happens seems to follow natural rules.
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    • Omar El Sayyed
      Panayot Cankov Natural rules? What are these? Aren't these the physics of the simulation? As far as we are concerned, there's no "natural", there are only rules that we know exist, and could have been different.
      Luckily, this world overflows with signs of intelligent design, and luckily, our creator chose to contact us. But he encouraged us to look for flaws, see if you can 'force" him to do anything for you. You roll by his rules, he doesn't roll by yours.
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    • Panayot Cankov
      Omar El Sayyed There are no signs of intelligent designs, and we are not sure we have been contacted by our creator, and even if we are simulation than what about our creator? Do we live in infinite chain of simulation within simulation? And if there i... 
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    • Omar El Sayyed
      Panayot Cankov If you can't see the signs then I can't help you. Sir, you are blind. And we've been contacted by our creator many times, you just need to educate yourself. And what happens outside our simulation doesn't concern us, and we aren't even e... 
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    • Panayot Cankov
      Omar El Sayyed ?‍♂️ ok I can agree that I didn’t made myself. The rest - let’s respectfully disagree.
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  • Brian Colón
    I've pondered this question ever since my first philosophy class. The ultimate answer is that you can't know for 100% certain that this isn't virtual reality, however, there are reasons to doubt that this is virtual reality. Think about this, how do you even know what virtual reality is? If your experience is nothing more than VR then the only way you were able to come to the knowledge of what VR is is because the knowledge of VR was programmed into the VR itself.
    The biggest plot hole in the Matrix is when Morpheus is explaining to Neo how the Machines came to be. He said "we marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI." Neo immediately understood what Morpheus meant by "Artificial Intelligence." But every bit of knowledge possessed by Neo up until this point has been a result of his experience in the Matrix. So if the Machines are using the Matrix to keep humans ignorant of the real world, then why would they include in the Matrix details about themselves, or more importantly details about Virtual Reality, the very tool they are using to make them ignorant. It would seem that a better way to control the humans would be to keep them ignorant of such ideas.
    So are you in a VR program right now? The very fact that you even know what VR is suggests that you are not.
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  • Judy Tyrer
    You mean red pill blue pill matrix stuff? Because otherwise, you can just turn off the computer and it will end.
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  • Thomas Mccluskey
    If you aren't trolling and are serious, you sound like you are dealing with a mental health issue, get some professional help, speak to your doctor, don't try and deal with it alone.
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  • Ramin Assadollahi
    sometimes, when i can't sleep in the middle of the night, i go to the living room. i have an infrared light so i don't have to switch on the lights for the VR trackers to orientate. then i travel. watch 360 videos in the sea, stingrays and such. space. freedom. when i put off my headset, i enter the darkness of reality. that is strange.
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  • Mark C Rennison
    Jump off a tall building. If you land safely in a haystack or respawn then it's definitely a simulation.
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      Abonnieren
      This person is obviously having a mental health episode and you would suggest this? Gross.
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    • Filip Andonov
      Mark C Rennison while this is probably one of the ways, the person needs professional help. You should add that this is not a serious suggestion
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    • Mark C Rennison
      I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.
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  • Daniel Lindenberger
    That's easy: if it were a simulation the programmers would add in compression measures - for example, they'd place limiters on how much detail you have to record about location & movement... maybe make a total maximum level of precision. You might even make a maximum level of precision for everything from energy levels to space and time itself. They'd save calculations by making it so particles don't actually exist when they aren't being observed, you'd just sort of calculate the potential position they're in probabilistically then apply a function to see if you should collapse that potential set of positions into a single one when it .... oh wait a sec.....
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  • Rod Anders
    I mean in a way this is all a virtual reality like experience. That doesn't make things matter any less to me I love living. One way to ease the mind is to go outside get some sunlight ,fresh air ,observe nature & listen to the ambient sounds around.
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  • Mark Strachan
    If you're already in the infinite then being able to be in more infinity is the same as being where you already are.
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  • Marlin Wyllie
    F for interesting insights
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    GIF könnte thriller, Michael Jackson, eating, popcorn und watching beinhalten
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  • Robin Barrett
    This is one of the oldest questions in philosophy. The problem is often referred to as Global Skepticism and is covered briefly in any intro philosophy course you might take at post-secondary
    More than 2000 years of various people writing about it has produced a number of solutions to the problems:
    One the one hand, it is impossible to prove ABSOLUTELY one way or the other if we are currently butterflys dreaming that they are humans, or in the matrix, or brains in vats, or in the clutches of an evil demonic deceiver (various versions used in the past), but this is not a unique position. Almost everything we know cannot be proven for certain. However, this is just the basic scientific worldview so don't feel like that's something new.
    As for solutions to the problem of Global Skepticism, I have a few preferred solutions that I think provide a sufficient response to the problem:
    1. Hitchen's Razor: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. There is no evidence that I am aware of that we are in a VR or in a dream, etc, and therefore we can dismiss the notion altogether until we find some evidence that we should take seriously. (Likewise, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so there would have to be a lot of evidence before I would accept the claim that we are in a dream. A vague "feeling" can never be sufficient)
    2. Ironically, my other defense is a modification of Pascal's Wager. If you think we are in a perfect simulation and you are wrong, you stand to lose a lot more than if you are right because you might act as though, because its a simulation, nothing matters. Alternatively if you assume that we are in a real world reality, and are wrong, nothing changes, as you would simply continue living as normal in either scenario.
    3. "The Default Position" - after more than 2000 years of writings no one side has truly proven the correctness of their position. As such, we cannot know for certain whether we are or are-not in a simulation. Because of this, we must determine what our "default position" should be. In lieu of evidence supporting either claim concretely, which side makes sense to start on? To me, the idea that there is a simulation, implies that there is also a reality, and therefore, the argument that we are in a simulation is additive to the the argument that we are in the real world. Since "reality+simulation" requires more truth claims than "reality" it is more logical - to me at least - to start with the assumption that we live in the real world as it is the simpler model. Any attempt to dislodge this default position must surpass Hitchens Razor in order to be considered.
    Global skepticism aside, your responses here indicate that you actually have a different problem altogether relating to being hurt by a partner or partners you've had. People changing from the people you thought you knew into other people over time isnt really covered under the books relating to Global Skepticism. Based on that, I don't think you'll be satisfied by either answer to the problem of global skepticism at all since your reason for asking is based in a desire to know why people change. In truth, it sounds more like you should see a therapist to talk about those people. While obviously, I don't know you enough to know your life, I can at least say that no matter how many toxic people youve had in your life manipulating you and "playing tricks on you", those people are not representative of the larger whole of humanity - they're behaviour is not normal and the way you've commented here sounded like you're being gasket by an abusive partner - the fact that you're questioning reality itself is likely related to that. I'm not a therapist though, so I can't be the one to help you get out and get through it emotionally, but I do hope you get help you need to get through the bad place you're currently in. ❤
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  • Philip Timm
    I have no clue what's going on in this thread. Are you LARPing, or having some kind of psychotic break? Is this a philosophical exercise? Why would random Facebookers be the people to ask this question to?
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    • D'An Knowles Ball
      Philip Timm I’m starting to think the same — there’s a new trend of forced RPGs. If this is such an experience, brava! It certainly lit up the room.
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  • Lwigi Auguste
    I've thought about taking a cue from the SUPERHOT method to pop the reality helmet off but Idk man, seems sketchy...
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  • Ævar Örn Kvaran
    Just finish the game with the highest goodness score possible, remember its permadeath.
    Also worth noticing, if we are indeed living in a simulated reality, we as entities might be simulated so no guarantees of continued existance even within a simulated reality.
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  • Ethan Miller
    This thread is wild. The people around you aren't NPCs being controlled by other people, and if you truly believe they aren't "real" then you may be having a mental break. Saying things like "someone is 5 characters in one being controlled by an operator" is pretty bonkers, you're not a sci-fi protagonist and you're not the only "real" person around. People act different when they're in different moods or around different people. Maybe take a step back from the internet for a while.
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  • Linda Ricci
    Do you actually worry about this, or are you trolling? Because if you actually do, you need mental help. I mean that kindly. My dad was a psychiatrist. Actively worrying about whether you are real or in a simulation is not healthy. My personal guess is you're trolling for reactions.
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  • Ja Wil Nar
    In the 17th Century, Rene Descartes, a mathematician and philosopher experienced a similar crisis. He asked himself - What if I am being deceived by God or a demon (i.e., the coder) and none of this life (i.e., simulation) is real? What if I don't even exist? At the end of a long process of deductive reasoning, he convinced himself that he did exist ("I think, therefore, I am!" - Cogito, ergo sum), and, that was good enough for him. You can read his book for insights. - Discourse on Method (1637)
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  • Putera Hidup
    Your thoughts about the virtual world ultimately came via your consciousness, but how did you become aware and conscious? Was it always out there or was it in you after you were given a brain, or after you were born? If everything of us is just our brain or thoughts, what of brain dead people, wouldn't they have logged off completely then?
    Now what I would like to request here is in your own consciousness, try and earnestly request from the creator of such 'unscientific', 'unprovable' thing such as consciousness to show you what is the relationship we should have with it while we're here on earth, and if it has provided a tutorial and guideline for all humankind, where is it?
    To anyone who is seriously asking these types of questions, please don't get stuck in the matrix of your own making, otherwise there is the dangerous stage some people get stuck at whereby everyone is just here wandering aimlessly and nothing becomes of morals then, which is another thing that can't possibly be fully realized just by using our human senses.
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  • Albert Sanchez
    This comments section is now closed.
    If you are feeling stressed, depressed, or are having real non philosophical doubts about reality (disassociation). The best thing you can do is to reach out to friends and family. Tell them how you feel, and speak to a mental health professional.
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