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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Originally posted by Captain Falcon
Also, what idea of higher reality do you have, which contains this "dream like" or "simulation like" world of ours? The noumenal world?
I imagine it would be something like a sea of information.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Most of the theories I have been looking at aren't suggesting that reality is literally running on a computer but more that it is simulation-like, or dream-like, that these are only metaphors for what is actually going on.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
The gap between human and chimpanzee intelligence, despite the fact that we share more than 98 percent of our DNA. Somewhere out there could be a being whose intelligence is that much greater than our own. We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence. If that’s the case, it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just a creation of some other entity for their entertainment. The more we learn about the universe, the more it appears to be based on mathematical laws. Perhaps that is not a given, but a function of the nature of the universe we are living in. If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical. If the simulation hypothesis is valid then we open the door to eternal life and resurrection and things that formally have been discussed in the realm of religion.
