We live in a computer simulated world!

Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:19:49 PM
Can't say that with 100% confidence in mind either. A perfect simulation is, after all, a perfect simulation.
We don't live in one, though.

Send me to hell for all eternity if I'm wrong.

Fair enough point. I certainly don't think we do. Just conversation material is all.

Forgewolf · June 19, 2015, 11:38:29 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 11:26:42 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:19:49 PM
Can't say that with 100% confidence in mind either. A perfect simulation is, after all, a perfect simulation.
We don't live in one, though.

Send me to hell for all eternity if I'm wrong.

What if that is programmed to exist

Sandtrap · June 19, 2015, 11:40:14 PM

Quote from: Forgewolf on June 19, 2015, 11:38:29 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 11:26:42 PM
Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:19:49 PM
Can't say that with 100% confidence in mind either. A perfect simulation is, after all, a perfect simulation.
We don't live in one, though.

Send me to hell for all eternity if I'm wrong.
What if that is programmed to exist

Well, see, that wouldn't make any sense then. Because technically Verb wouldn't be dead. Which would mean in the real world he'd have a really god damn long lifespan.

Forgewolf · June 19, 2015, 11:45:01 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:40:14 PM

Quote from: Forgewolf on June 19, 2015, 11:38:29 PM
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 11:26:42 PM
Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:19:49 PM
Can't say that with 100% confidence in mind either. A perfect simulation is, after all, a perfect simulation.
We don't live in one, though.

Send me to hell for all eternity if I'm wrong.
What if that is programmed to exist

Well, see, that wouldn't make any sense then. Because technically Verb wouldn't be dead. Which would mean in the real world he'd have a really god damn long lifespan.

No. I meant what if Hell is programmed to exist? That this computer simulated world is so powerful, it can simulate religious lands of Heaven and Hell?

Sandtrap · June 19, 2015, 11:49:37 PM

Quote from: Forgewolf on June 19, 2015, 11:45:01 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:40:14 PM
Quote from: Forgewolf on June 19, 2015, 11:38:29 PM
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 11:26:42 PM
Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:19:49 PM
Can't say that with 100% confidence in mind either. A perfect simulation is, after all, a perfect simulation.
We don't live in one, though.

Send me to hell for all eternity if I'm wrong.
What if that is programmed to exist

Well, see, that wouldn't make any sense then. Because technically Verb wouldn't be dead. Which would mean in the real world he'd have a really god damn long lifespan.
No. I meant what if Hell is programmed to exist? That this computer simulated world is so powerful, it can simulate religious lands of Heaven and Hell?

My point still stands.

Heaven and hell are supposedly death based things. Which would mean, that after somebody "died" in-simulation, and ended up in either one, their lifespan would technically be beyond the average lifespan of a human then, now wouldn't it?

They wouldn't be dead. They'd still be intact, just shifted from one running program to another. Assuming that you're plugged into a computer in the real world, that means your entire body is still intact and that therefore your age-wise lifespan is longer than a normal human's.

Solonoid · June 20, 2015, 01:10:45 AM

This is the problem with trying to understand the world.

If you spent your life looking at the shadows of puppets on a cave wall, wouldn't you think that those shadows were the world?

And if one day you turned around and saw the puppets, wouldn't you think that they were the world?

How would you eventually keep trying to find your way out of the cave and into the world, if you had no idea there was an outside of the cave?

We really never can be certain of it.

Is this the real life?
Or is this just fantasy?
It's like were caught in a landslide,
With no escape from "reality".

Sandtrap · June 20, 2015, 01:13:19 AM

Quote from: Sᴏʟ's Sᴏɴɢ on June 20, 2015, 01:10:45 AM

This is the problem with trying to understand the world.

If you spent your life looking at the shadows of puppets on a cave wall, wouldn't you think that those shadows were the world?

And if one day you turned around and saw the puppets, wouldn't you think that they were the world?

How would you eventually keep trying to find your way out of the cave and into the world, if you had no idea there was an outside of the cave?

We really never can be certain of it.

Is this the real life?
Or is this just fantasy?
It's like were caught in a landslide,
With no escape from "reality".

Aha! But we all have a built in off switch!

Wanna know what it is?

Spoiler

mc kill yourself

Naru · June 20, 2015, 01:14:03 AM

Well, I honestly believe that the universe we're in is actually a hologram now that I've read a little more into that theory. Pretty fucking weird thinking about it, yet it kinda makes sense.

Forgewolf · June 20, 2015, 02:16:34 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:49:37 PM

Quote from: Forgewolf on June 19, 2015, 11:45:01 PM
Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:40:14 PM
Quote from: Forgewolf on June 19, 2015, 11:38:29 PM
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 11:26:42 PM
Quote from: Sandtrap on June 19, 2015, 11:19:49 PM
Can't say that with 100% confidence in mind either. A perfect simulation is, after all, a perfect simulation.
We don't live in one, though.

Send me to hell for all eternity if I'm wrong.
What if that is programmed to exist

Well, see, that wouldn't make any sense then. Because technically Verb wouldn't be dead. Which would mean in the real world he'd have a really god damn long lifespan.
No. I meant what if Hell is programmed to exist? That this computer simulated world is so powerful, it can simulate religious lands of Heaven and Hell?

My point still stands.

Heaven and hell are supposedly death based things. Which would mean, that after somebody "died" in-simulation, and ended up in either one, their lifespan would technically be beyond the average lifespan of a human then, now wouldn't it?

They wouldn't be dead. They'd still be intact, just shifted from one running program to another. Assuming that you're plugged into a computer in the real world, that means your entire body is still intact and that therefore your age-wise lifespan is longer than a normal human's.

I think we are on the same page. Lol

Release · June 20, 2015, 11:41:33 AM

What if we were the simulation

like, we don't exist

And what if the being responsible for the simulation was a simulation too

Literally everything is an illusion until it gets to a certain point

At a certain point there's maybe just an infinite plane of self awareness

And that self awareness exists and feeds off of the thoughts and self awareness of the simulation subjects

Maybe we're writing the very simulation with our thoughts

Jester · June 20, 2015, 11:43:27 AM

We must run on Windows because I keep crashing my car

Tyger · June 20, 2015, 11:54:04 AM

Quote from: Sᴏʟ Nɪxɪʟɪs on June 20, 2015, 01:10:45 AM

This is the problem with trying to understand the world.

If you spent your life looking at the shadows of puppets on a cave wall, wouldn't you think that those shadows were the world?

And if one day you turned around and saw the puppets, wouldn't you think that they were the world?

How would you eventually keep trying to find your way out of the cave and into the world, if you had no idea there was an outside of the cave?

We really never can be certain of it.

Is this the real life?
Or is this just fantasy?
It's like were caught in a landslide,
With no escape from "reality".

bitch you aren't Plato

🂿 · June 20, 2015, 01:27:36 PM

This entire website is a fabrication of my imagination. In reality I'm staring at a wall for 12 hours each day.

Solonoid · June 20, 2015, 03:54:40 PM

Quote from: Tyger on June 20, 2015, 11:54:04 AM

Quote from: Sᴏʟ Nɪxɪʟɪs on June 20, 2015, 01:10:45 AM
This is the problem with trying to understand the world.

If you spent your life looking at the shadows of puppets on a cave wall, wouldn't you think that those shadows were the world?

And if one day you turned around and saw the puppets, wouldn't you think that they were the world?

How would you eventually keep trying to find your way out of the cave and into the world, if you had no idea there was an outside of the cave?

We really never can be certain of it.

Is this the real life?
Or is this just fantasy?
It's like were caught in a landslide,
With no escape from "reality".
bitch you aren't Plato

And you aren't play-do