What if we're each in our individual simulation

Maybe you’re a npc in my simulation

That would explain a lot.

Or.....would it?

How many simulated pots have you consumed?

There are a lot of NPCs out there, though.

Were either fine or fricked, which is exactly how we were before.

Think about it.

A variant of solipsism.

It makes my wife irrationally angry when I start down that road. I point out she knows it isn't true because she knows she exists, but I can't ever know that she actually exists. Maybe it doesn't help when I respond to everything she says with "that's what my brain would have you say."

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What if we're each in our individual simulation

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The scary question is, “What if we’re not?”

I'm team simulation, and this is something I've thought about a bit. I've pretty much landed on it being unknowable, so not worth spending too much time on. And, even believing that we're in a simulation, it really has no outcome on my reality, because what I'm experiencing- pain, pleasure, hunger, fullness, hot or cold, grief or elation- is completely real to me.

eta-- love this topic though, hope the thread takes off

Existing for a God’s amusement is essentially what a simulation is.

When you play Sims, do you demand your characters worship you or else they be forced into eternal damnation? That part is a little weird.

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I'm team simulation, and this is something I've thought about a bit. I've pretty much landed on it being unknowable, so not worth spending too much time on. And, even believing that we're in a simulation, it really has no outcome on my reality, because what I'm experiencing- pain, pleasure, hunger, fullness, hot or cold, grief or elation- is completely real to me.

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Great way to put it.