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MarvinGardens

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21. I can't be 100% sure that we don't live in a simulated reality...

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 10:38 PM

Jan 2019

Like presented in The Matrix, or The Thirteenth Floor, or Dark City. (Interesting how all those movies came out around the same time.) But I had thought about it as a child. What if I'm the only one with free will? What if I'm being tested, part of some experiment by a more powerful being or beings?

But I decided long ago that things would go much better for me and those around me (who may or may not have thought about this, who may or may not be real, but I have to assume they are) if I assumed that reality is real, and that we are all real.

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Creation Myths Come in Many Forms. [View all] MineralMan Jan 2019 OP

What causes the singularity? zipplewrath Jan 2019 #1

I'm not sure that "causes" is the right word. MineralMan Jan 2019 #3

Well, I'm avoiding semantics zipplewrath Jan 2019 #4

As I understand it, the best current hypothesis is that "nothing" is unstable marylandblue Jan 2019 #9

An old hypotheses zipplewrath Jan 2019 #12

Since discarded by the compelling evidence Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #29

As marylandblue pointed out one idea is that MineralMan Jan 2019 #11

"I don't know" is a perfectly legitimate answer Ron Obvious Jan 2019 #7

Therefore God! Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #30

I don't know. I'm kinda partial to Jesus vomiting up the universe. 3Hotdogs Jan 2019 #2

Are you sure? gtar100 Jan 2019 #5

Along those lines: MarvinGardens Jan 2019 #8

It may be that existence can only "be" because of an observer. gtar100 Jan 2019 #20

Alternatively, mythologies are really psychological stories marylandblue Jan 2019 #10

Myths are imagined explanations of things we cannot experience. MineralMan Jan 2019 #15

But, time may not exist except within the physical universe. MineralMan Jan 2019 #13

Is there any evidence edhopper Jan 2019 #16

Good question. MineralMan Jan 2019 #17

That is not a question gtar100 Jan 2019 #18

I am a naturalist edhopper Jan 2019 #19

Actually it literally is. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #28

Step on a crack! TwistOneUp Jan 2019 #6

Yes. Something like that. MineralMan Jan 2019 #14

I can't be 100% sure that we don't live in a simulated reality... MarvinGardens Jan 2019 #21

Oh, I think pretty much everyone has flirted with that idea MineralMan Feb 2019 #22

Sometimes a deity... NeoGreen Feb 2019 #23

Yes. I remember that. MineralMan Feb 2019 #24

No worries... NeoGreen Feb 2019 #25

For years in Tulsa TlalocW Feb 2019 #26

What a great idea! MineralMan Feb 2019 #27