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 No.53134

What proves that we are real and not in a virtual world?

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 No.53135

Nothing

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 No.53138

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 No.53139

>>53134

what?

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 No.53141

Define real

Define virtual

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 No.53145

What are 'we', what are you calling the world, and what is your standard of proof? The only thing we can really be sure exists is our own consciousness, because we are aware and able to question it. Everything else is only what we subjectively see projected through the vignette of our thoughts and our perspective. I can't prove that I am real to you, but as I sit here typing this I could stop at any point as a proof to myself that I have the freedom to choose. I could spell som3thing wrong on purpose. I could kill myself for no reason other than having the ability and the free will to decide to do so.

The question is, how can you prove to me that you exist? And how can I prove myself to you? We can't. There is no logical or empirical way for us to compare our experiences. I cannot share my perspective with you, and for all you know I might not even have one. I could be a philosophical zombie, a person without original thought, but replicating normal behaviour just out of primal instinct. How would you even be able to tell the difference? How can you tell if another person's thoughts are authentic?

We need not be living in a simulation for everything we see and sense to be maddeningly unreal.

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 No.53146

>>53134

computing power, but the upper realities may not have the same rules as this one.

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 No.53147

>>53134

If weren't real, we couldn't ask 'are we real?'

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 No.53149

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>>53145

Ok, thank you for your reponce but how do you know if you are not an imagination of my mind trying to prove to me my existence?

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 No.53502

I believe we are in a similar situation similar to Rick's space car battery except in a simulated reality. Once our computing power increases or we reach the edge of space, we won't know for sure. When we die, our functions cease. The simulation reclaims and recycles our remains in whatever final form they take, be it burned, buried, or other. There is no afterlife. Religion was our programing trying to sort the what, where, why, and how of our existence. I believe that once the simulation is known by everyone one of two things will happen, the apocalypse or worldwide anarchy. In other words, the simulation will be taken down and appear as the world is ending or there will be complete lawlessness world wide.

https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse_Battery

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 No.53627

>>53146

I've heard this a lot, but it's not remotely necessary for a virtual universe to actually simulate the entire universe. It only has to simulate whatever the people are directly observing. Think about when you're in a car. If the entire universe went away except for video projections on your windows, there would be no way for you to know. Distant galaxies need not be simulated until and unless someone peers into a telescope. Put another way, imagine that there is NOTHING behind you right now but empty void, because it doesn't need to be there until you look. Then when you turn to look, it appears, but your computer disappears.

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