Hearken! Do you doubt the world in front of your eyes?

[SrsSam77]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bank-of-america-the-matrix-50-per-cent-virtual-reality-elon-musk-nick-bostrom-a7287471.html

I remember as a young lad reading books on black holes and wormholes and some topical overviews of quantum physics and mechanics and I'd have fun trying to digest the thought that we're at the infinite position of a cycle of a society being started up in a program and progressing to the point where we in turn create a program in our reality for the purpose of testing out reality itself.

I've seen this topic be brought up before in other places but I'm not well versed in it, although a few tidbits, such as the notion that physics are usually so straightforward and simple for a reason, make it seem like an enticing thought.


Discuss

[Bamyasi]

[BluPhoenix]

[rtil]

does that mean to space jesus that we are all NPC's?

[soup]

[Bamyasi]

In all serious I used to worry about this in middle school like pretty much everything else (Mayan long count apocalypse, transhumanism, nihilism, phimosis, parents discovering my browsing history) after playing Star Ocean 3 and came to the conclusion that it doesn't fuggin matter. Reality bites or reality bytes, what's the difference.

What's more interesting to me is how we as both individuals and a species seem incapable of forfeiting religious thinking, as though we're hardwired for it. Isn't it weird that at the precise moment in history where Christianity as traditionally understood loses its foothold in the West, ideas like simulated reality (Christian ontology) and social justice (Christian ethics) begin to take its place? God may not be watching me look at porn, but Google certainly is (or at least the narcissistic, solipsistic reality show narration in my head is telling me this between redirecting me to Amazon).

TL;DR: Why didn't the Demiurge programmers who wrote iReality 2.0 make it, I dunno, more anime? Are they 4th dimensional beings and so to them our 3rd dimension appears flat and idealized? Does Cthulhu hug 3D pictorial representations of us printed onto its body pillow? Is there erotic art featuring us in compromised positions? Is the whole of reality and the sum of human suffering merely one giant hentai for the Old Ones to rub their slimy phosphorescent tentacles to?

Damn good game though. One of my favorite opening cinematics ever even though it's a shameless 2001 ripoff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZzvRIj4Vw

Smoke weed everyday.

[Stu4U]

[valiums]

No, We are as we are, here on this planet 7 billion years after an event that had an infintesimally small chance of happening,

when you have forever to try, does infinitesimallity really matter

[crackers]

No, We are as we are, here on this planet 7 billion years after an event that had an infintesimally small chance of happening,

when you have forever to try, does infinitesimallity really matter

T H A N K Y O U

[redmongoose]

GAMERGATE AAAAAAH A GIRL AND THE MATRIX AAAAAAAAAAHH