Random Thought of the Day - Daily Contest #2 - Are we living in the Matrix ?
Hi there and welcome to the second edition of my daily competition.
I have started this competition in the hope that this will prove to be a fun and interesting way to get people to interact and engage with each other here on #proofofbrain
The name of the contest is deliberately a bit vague to give myself more room to maneuver when it comes to the subject matter and content.
Basically each post could be about anything really. Ranging from a memorable quote to a story or maybe just a random question about life itself. Literally any subject is open for discussion but I will try and not let it get too weird !
You are also welcome to talk about any other subject you like.
To enter the competition you simply have to make a comment on this post and I will do a daily random draw for 3 lucky winners.
1st Place = 1 POB + 1 Upvote
2nd Place = 0.50 POB + 1 Upvote
3rd Place = 0.25 POB + 1 Upvote
If it all goes well I will increase the prizes very soon. I also intend on powering up 100% of the votes from each daily contest in order to increase the Upvote prize.
So I had a random thought earlier about living in a simulation and then I remembered hearing about a news story a few years ago where Elon Musk claimed we are doing just that so I thought I would look it up.
Apparently its at least 50/50 odds that we are in fact living in some kind of computer simulation according to Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
That's pretty crazy.
Here is an excerpt from the article that is quite compelling.
The current assault on reality began with a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom. In it, the University of Oxford philosopher laid down some blunt logic: If there are long-lived technological civilizations in the universe, and if they run computer simulations, there must be a huge number of simulated realities complete with artificial-intelligence inhabitants who may have no idea they’re living inside a game — inhabitants like us, perhaps.
Link to article.
What are you're thoughts ?
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STOPDon't get me started.
I'll just say that I've come to accept that something along these lines may be true. What's interesting to me is... am I the only consciousness and everybody and everything else is just in my simulation? Or are we all sharing a simulation and experiencing it from our own perspectives?
There's a certain relief in the idea that "this isn't real". Not because it means nothing matters. On the contrary, I believe it means things matter even more than we ever knew.
Hey man. Yeah its a good question 😉 The article then goes on to say that this means there is a chance we could be living in a simulation created by people in another simulation.!! It can start to hurt your brain at that point. 😂
I had a friend who was convinced he was in a Truman Show scenario for a year or two. He was convinced it was all made for him. He was taking a lot of Ketamine at the time though. 😂
I have been leaning towards this idea for a while now myself. Makes more sense than a magic man living in the clouds !
Peace, G.
Hehe yeah I was a psychiatric nurse for 10 years and saw lots of people that believed they were the meaning of the universe, or that nothing was real, or that everything and everyone was acting, or that even THEY were acting, etc etc.
Also have a little experience with large doses of psilocybin.... lol
That's a hardcore job!
Yeah I like to dabble myself. Lol
In fact the subject of today's post is psychedelics and micro-dosing. Need to finish it first though.! On the wine last night 🍾
Ha Ha, this is one crazy paper, I believe we are living a kind of simulation, but not of the computerised sense but a realistic simulation that has evolved over decades of backroom power struggles, shady wars and illegitimate Governments, a narritive that has been thought to us as children to keep us in line and those behind the curtain in power, a narritive devoid of the facts of history and delusions of grandure from the top down. But hey this is just my random thought, I could just be a delusional freak myself He He
By the way thanks for the mention @elricmoonslayer and yesterdays 1st place was a welcoming little suprize cheer Bud Lol
no probs :) you currently have great odds of winning something as there are not many comments being posted yet :)
I'm sure this will increase soon though :)
Thats a shame, Im gonna reblog, hopefuly others will see the potential and join in, not that I dont like winning something He He, who doesnt, buts its better for community growth if more have that opportunity, glad to share the Love.
Yeah its quite a read :)! The fact that scientist are actually trying to prove it is brilliant. Talking about things not being there when we are not looking at them and stuff. :)
Yeah i think the history we know is nonsense !
im proud to be a freak HeHe. :)
Its quite interesting to see an academic at that level studying something that some would consider crazy, but we might not be the most intelligent species after all, Lol, who really knows this study might just reveal that we have been in a simulation created by intelligent spiders, wouldnt that be some crazy shit Ha Ha
Yeah definitely 😂 infact the thought that we are the smartest species in the universe is a bit depressing 😂