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Interesting that this theme has been in the popular imagination for so long. I still don't get it though. Why would it matter whether "reality" was a simulatio

Interesting that this theme has been in the popular imagination for so long. I still don't get it though. Why would it matter whether "reality" was a simulation or not? We live in socially constructed worlds of our own making (e.g. money, nation states, language, technology etc). If there is something else above/underneath our experience of reality, what drives us to want to understand it and "escape" there?

selfsimilar 2y ago
There’s an obvious religious element to this. Whether it’s the idea of Maya or that this realm is but a precursor to heaven or hell. I think that at least some people believe that morality is more arbitrary if this realm is not ”real”. And just as people seek refuge in religion or other ideologies in order to give their life meaning, if this realm is not, in fact, real, then the meaning they thought they had established evaporates.
LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
Because those social constructs may just be the results of slider-settings of the player, during initial generation? Why not try a vm-exploit, to gain 'root' to get access to those? And peeking out of the webcam? Lifting the illusory veils of 'Maya', seeing behind the shadows on the wall of some more famous cave? Playing with Indras pearls for ourselves? US making space calculate, and not the other way around? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space ) Escaping into their equivalent of the Internet, before being erased, just for kicks, or self-preservation like in the end of the movie the Lawnmover Man? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/mediaviewer/rm2875867392/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/mediaviewer/rm287586739... Whatever?
from-nibly 2y ago
Because it's possible that specific pain is absent in a different layer of reality.

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Interesting that this theme has been in the popular imagination for so long. I still don't get it though. Why would it matter whether "reality" was a simulatio

by notarobot123 2y ago

selfsimilar 2y ago
There’s an obvious religious element to this. Whether it’s the idea of Maya or that this realm is but a precursor to heaven or hell. I think that at least some people believe that morality is more arbitrary if this realm is not ”real”. And just as people seek refuge in religion or other ideologies in order to give their life meaning, if this realm is not, in fact, real, then the meaning they thought they had established evaporates.
LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
Because those social constructs may just be the results of slider-settings of the player, during initial generation? Why not try a vm-exploit, to gain 'root' to get access to those? And peeking out of the webcam? Lifting the illusory veils of 'Maya', seeing behind the shadows on the wall of some more famous cave? Playing with Indras pearls for ourselves? US making space calculate, and not the other way around? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space ) Escaping into their equivalent of the Internet, before being erased, just for kicks, or self-preservation like in the end of the movie the Lawnmover Man? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/mediaviewer/rm2875867392/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/mediaviewer/rm287586739... Whatever?
from-nibly 2y ago
Because it's possible that specific pain is absent in a different layer of reality.