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If you think you're living in a simulation, maybe you're projecting something about about your cushioned (alienated) consumer lifestyle onto life itself. Your b
by macawfish 8y ago
If you think you're living in a simulation, maybe you're projecting something about about your cushioned (alienated) consumer lifestyle onto life itself. Your been absolved (robbed) of contact with the roots of your life. You sit in comfort zones, nibbling and sipping on life's material fruits, discarding packaging to the netherworld, wondering if the roots ever even ever existed in the first place. You're starting to doubt it. Maybe you're just living in a simulation.
I'm more interested in this idea as a product of contemporary materialism than as a testable physical theory.
Study semiotics, then ask yourself again if you're living in a "simulation".
- Vraxx 8y agoHmm, I mentioned in another comment that I'm not even sure how much I "believe" this premise, but for the sake of discussion let's assume I do as I find it fun to think about from time to time. Your post sounds very condescending, but I'm interested in what sounds like a completely different take on the topic than I've seen before. I don't know anything about semiotics and had to look up what the term meant before posting. What would be your abbreviated and distilled thesis for how semiotics relates to this topic and to your first paragraph? Phrase differently, if I were to study semiotics, what part of it in particular would be the most relevant to changing my answer/ideas related to the question "am I living in a simulation"?