"Simulation theory" has been gaining popularity lately.
From Nick Bostrom's hypothesis paper spelling out the theory, to Elon Musk receiving much press for his believing in the possibility, there is buzz in the world around the proposed idea that we are living in a simulated reality, perhaps designed by some form of futuristic super-intelligence.
Even high-profile physists have been jumping onboard the bandwagon. Whether or not they're amongst the bunch who have been drawing their conclusions from DMT trips - many who've been exploring the psychedelic realms, also speaking strongly about this idea - we can't be sure. But whether listening to the shamanistic bunch tripping balls, Musk, or the science's thought leaders, it's clearly a theory that been gaining attention and thus might be worth some consideration.
Herein, let's explore.
And let's start with a presupposition and question:
Let's say we are living in some sort of simulation. What next...?
If it is in fact the case that the reality we think is real is some form of matrix-like simulated reality... where do we go here with such knowledge/awareness? What difference does such an insight make? How does this change things? Why does this matter, and what could we do with this knowledge...?
Moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum’s Hayden Planetarium, put the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a program on someone else’s hard drive. “I think the likelihood may be very high...” ~ source: Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
View this statement from a different perspective: that it is Truth.
And that "someone else's hard drive" is itself genetic memory.
That our DNA isn't merely the instructional code for us as individuals, but a sort of quantum hard drive on which all information about everything is stored - or that it is a type of wireless interfacing device linking with a sort of quantum cloud drive in which all information in the universe exists.
This puts a different spin on the theory, doesn't it.
Yet, this may be a critical perspective to play with if attempting to uncover what truths there may be in the theory. Because while the entire theory may not be 100% true, there are aspects of it worthy of consideration that could definitely upgrade our understanding of self, the universe, and the genetic link between the microcosm and macrocosm of their interconnected fractal nature.
We are biological machines.
Our realities, our brain constructs through the extraction and projection of data encoded in sensory input - not only sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell, but other spectrums of frequency both our pineal gland and DNA acts as receptors to - and genetic memory.
(And likely, all that sensory input gets compressed and encoded directly back into the genetic code.)
We're swimming in a sea of frequencies. Quantum physics. The solid form we perceive as 3D reality merely the particle-state as our conscious observation collapses it down from wave-state.
What appears on the screen of our consciousness as the "reality" infront of us?
A collision of data encoded in a swarm of brainwaves - part received externally through senses, part generated internally through genetic code - simultaneously extracted and compressed into the particle-state 3D experience.
Nothing is solid. Nearly all matter is empty space.
What appears tangibly "real"... a product of our biological mechanism's conversion of energy, the brain's translation of vibrationally-carried data.
As you read these words, your sense of sight takes the characters on your computer/smartphone screen in, processing it through the English coding language to unlock access to the information encoded into the program of this story.
Simultaneously, you brain may be disseminating the new information through your existing neural networks for comparison and measurement to gauge how to fit it into the existing data structures of your belief systems and foundational knowledge base.
Some may refuse to accept the new information because it conflicts, shutting down access to new neural networks, making themselves stupider by failing to adapt to what'd upgrade their consciousness.
Others may embrace it, resolving any conflicts with other preexisting information by choosing to see where each has its value and place, increasing their capacity for discernment and choosing from a broader spectrum of perceptions based on what may be most effective for each individual situation.
Either way, this information - and the consequential reactions - will be compressed back down into your genetic memory.
This is the case for every person who reads this.
So where does any of this information exist?
In every person's genetic code.
Those who may have judged the new information will have shut down their own access to what lies within the spectrum encoded through the programming of these words.
Those who have opened to embracing the new, now have an entirely new realm of perspectives and access to a broader spectrum of information.
The information just is.
The words may have served as a bridge for your consciousness to reach the crossroads of choice at which you have determined to shrink back into your comfort zone of old thought or expanded your connection into new networks of data.
Those networks of data just exist.
Genetic code is the means through which we may access them.
The words opened the possibility of connecting into them.
Your choice opened or closed your own access.
So...
What haven't we accessed because we haven't yet received the access codes to crack open the possibilities for perceiving it?
What senses haven't we activated yet simply because we have no fucking clue they exist?
What have we ourselves closed access to through all kinds of judgements, denials, and resistance to information that conflicted with our viewpoints?
And how much opportunity might we have to increase access to broader spectrums of frequencies through the cessation of judgements that have locked our conscious exploration of rich networks of unfathomable information awaiting to upgrade us as it is accessed and integrated?
Though not to digress too far...
Is this a simulation?
Kind of, yes.
Each of us are running our own.
Aspects of this "shared reality," we share - perhaps due to common activated genetic codes granting us all access to certain frequency spectrums.
Yet, we all have different access levels to other degrees of a broader spectrum.
Some of us have had traumas that have shut down regulators in the brain dealing with specific types of information and frequencies, rendering us incapable of perceiving or process what others with those functional regulators can.
Many of us have not yet undergone the developmental process to build more advanced regulators that would increase our senses and abilities for accessing finer and deeper details of information within further refined frequency spectrums.
And while we may all be sharing genetic access to certain planetary programs as the physical construct of our environments or cultural & societal codes, there are also programs and memory encoded within each individual's genetic code - a culmination of their own life experiences. (Though perhaps even what is stored in an individual's "Self" level of the genetic memory system could potentially be equally accessible through others' "Others", should the others activate the senses and abilities to unlock access. Consider ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, remote viewing, and other such "psychic" phenomena as this - merely accessing different levels of genetic memory most can't/don't.)
So, yes. Essentially, we are living each in our own simulation - parts shared, parts customized based on the developmental degree of our individual genetic code.
And yes, Neil deGrasse Tyson may be right. "Our entire existence is a program on someone else’s hard drive" - every other person's genetic code, just as everyone else's is on ours.
So, we've reframed the simulation theory.
As for the parts about us aliens or some highly-intelligent beings as the one who programmed this whole thing... that's another story better left out of this one for now.
And now that the context has been constructed to ground more of the theory into practical physics, let's return to the starting question:
What next...?
How does this frame of perspective benefit us?
What advantage might we have now that was inaccessible prior to expanding our awareness into these dynamics of how we are each creating our individual "simulated" experiences while also simultaneously participating in the co-creation of a shared reality as collaborating in programming the genetic code?
These are no doubt small questions.
Yet, profoundly powerful.
Perhaps we are the start of developing the power of control over our own realities - understanding how to work harmoniously with the dynamics of this system.
Perhaps the outcomes of our lives are not a matter of chance, luck, or fate. There may be a way of systematically increasing our conscious influence through the processes which increase our access to deeper, higher, broader levels of Truth and spectrums of frequencies.
What might lie within those broadened realms?
Maybe the imagination is the limit.
Maybe that answer is each our own to discover - and create.
Maybe time will tell.
Or maybe we will - the outcomes shaped through each story we are crafting here and now, recoding the genetic code with tales of what's to come...
This cartoon explains why Elon Musk thinks we’re characters in a computer simulation. He might be right.
So we are a program that is after learning the source code (DNA) of the program that programs us to behave according to the program?
If this happened to our computer, we would call that virus or infinite loop and either force shutdown or format.
Someone ask those who are out their to decipher the source code to stop, otherwise, we will be formatted from the face of the earth!
Interesting read! Thank you!
Maybe that is where some foresee mankind heading: self-extinction, whether through Mother Earth's backlashes against our abuse of her, nuclear holocaust, AI apocalypse, or otherwise.
Or maybe the program doesn't program us to behave... maybe the program has juat been set in motion, with the opportunity to increase access levels to where we can reprogram...
If were the case, perhaps those attempting to decipher the code might be after what's needed to rewrite the code that's had us on the path towards self-destruction.
Or, none of these could be truthful. Or they all could. Could potentially go any number of ways - depending on what the program is set for and how it gets recoded... :-)
Indeed!
Very True!!! Great Insight and for that I follow you :)
I have always enjoyed this subject, but there is one big flaw in the idea that we are living in a simulation. If we are, then who is running that simulation? And if you can generate such an accurate simulation, what is to say that our simulation runners, aren't a simulation themselves? You start down this infinite regression where you never know who is running any simulations. It is therefore more likely that we are in the base reality rather than not. Also, as you go up the chain, you start to run in to computational issues. Even if you have incredible computers, at some point, they will not be able to keep up. You should see gaps or glitches, and since all of our experiments have been very predictable , it is likely we are in base reality.
Good read though. Thank you.
I agree with you point theoretically, and I too struggle with the question of who or what maintains the simulation. I don't, however, view this as a reasonable criticism of the theory in itself. Just because we cannot fathom the origins of the simulated reality doesn't change the statistical argument that this is, in fact, a simulation.
On the other hand, it's so far removed that our notion of computing power might not even apply to the real base reality. Our notion of physics might not even apply.
Very true and good points. Sure I might be a brain in a vat, or a simulation, but I still believe my experience and will continue to live my life as if we are in the base reality.
Actually there is a reddit for such glitches!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/
When you consider the likes of "Grand Theft Auto" , how do we REALLY know any different... I spent a lot of time pondering this! For instance, what we imagine solid to be solid could well be just that we are programmed to believe this is so. Talk about mind warping :) .The real scary thing is though is who is controlling the computer :)
Thank you for the article! Got me thinking again !
Your welcome. Mission accomplished. :-)
I'd say, why fear at all? Let's say nobody. And there is no computer. Perhaps our computers have merely been a physical projection of the same type of design of the universe - it's just the structure and fabric or reality itself, governed by laws of mathematics and physics.
Perhaps there is no one "in control", per se - it's all just a program set in motion, unfolding according to code.
Or, we are - to the degree we unlock increasing levels of access to rewrite the code. ;-)
Great article
Sounds like the matrix all over again. I guess the only way to answer whether what we're looking at right now is real is to go to the spirit world (assuming in your mind that it exist). It's questions like these that forces you to ask more questions until you get to the bottom of things.
I think this theory carries more weight when the idea that some higher intelligence created the simulation. If it's a simulation at all, what's to say it had to be created?
Muy interesante, en esto se fundamentan quienes sostienen la teoría de que nuestra realidad es el resultado de un experimento alienígena.
Very nice and power full skill.......fr
WOW not going to lie and say that this article is a little bit of a mind F*** I mean who knows, we are in this world created by someone else. Have you ever seen the TV show Westworld? This topic reminds me of that show.
What potentials do we all have that we haven't unlocked! 😮
:-D
I would overlay this with the idea I've encountered that time is merely an unpacking and unfolding of all of the above into bits we can process more easily. It's at this point I usually reach for a beer.
Excellent additional perspective.
Lol.
Time to break out of the biopods and do bullet time ninja kicks Keanu Reeves style
😎
@maite hello spanish 😊
I wrote an article thinking about some of this, and I've got one cooking, too. My take is a bit further afield, only looking upwards, that it's not just that we're a program or our DNA is a hard drive per se, but rather that it's turtles the whole way up. We're as real as can be, as a daydream by something omnipotent, which itself is being dreamt up and so on. But maybe I'm a little Hindu.
Would appreciate if you check back in and post the link when published... :-)
Greaf article. I've been pondering this for a while now - !!?
Yes its a simulation, and we are under control from birth
This is all based on a false underlying assumption which is that reality is digital.
Though if one were to look at it from the angle that digital is merely a representation of analog, could not parts of the system dynamics be just as equally applicable if analog?
I can't speak for the theory as others have proposed/discussed it, though there was no such assumption in my own take...
I really enjoyed reading this... Very thought provoking!
WOW, what a great post, really interesting
I love the way you bring out the articulation.... BRAVO... Brilliant article.
Nice! I explore this probably from a different angle in my book City of a Million Dots. The basic premise being a father trying to remove the epigenetic programming from his son by hijacking his movements and actions and then committing his son's suicide causing a blip in the epigenetic programme... his other son, to another mother, is taking it further - his mother committed suicide in front of him to break the link to his father and this son, Neon, is not content to take out the epigenetic code he wants to go all the way back to genetic code, achieving the ultimate freedom of choice. Of course Genetic coders don't want freedom of choice, they want a bug world, obedience to the species... makes for one hell of a mess.
Not sure if you have read Philip K Dick he explores multiply realities in many of his books. As Terry Gilliam said:
"'For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplication realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first."
sounds interesting...
The idea of the Akashic Records deals with a similar idea to this. Maybe our DNA is the history of everything that has, is, and will happen.
Yep. ;-)
Wow,great article
I Believe We Are Living In A Simulation , Because Life Is So Like A Game 。
this theory uses thinking to build a materialistic conception of the world, so uses thinking, that is an originary phenomenon, to say that the originary phenomenon is something material, that creates thinking.
It's like the "brain in a vat" theory: this theory exists thank to thinking as a spiritual activity, founded in itself: because even if we are not brains in a vat we can think that we are. It uses thinking to negate that thinking is a spiritual activity.
This is the power of thinking: it has also the power to negate itself!
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STOPvoted... the answer is: maybe....
This was a very interesting article I had to resteem it. Its crazy that I was just talking to someone about the possibility of this. could it be true?
lately I have been pondering the same questions..simulation..hmmm, I still breathe, I still get hungry, I still have to go to the bathroom, I still feel pain, I feel a whole range of emotions..could this be possible in a simulation? Actually, does it really matter? I am active player in this so called game of life and I would not want to miss on second of it. Thanks for the post.
actually in terms of the "life" simulation, it could be from the starting point of a single cell organism, or maybe even earlier, which i don't have the vocabulary to describe. it's kinda like how AI starts with almost nothing, then slowly figures things out, and with an accelerating "upgrade" speed, optimizes its "purpose"...
is that why we humans sometimes like to question the "purpose" of our lives too? like an AI?? I always feel that humans are the AIs of the "living species", then now we are creating AIs (sort of) modeled after ourselves, like an endless Mobius Strip.
I've read something like this. The rabbit hole goes deep in this Theory. Just like the hollow earth and flat earth theories. I think we would. Be living in a simulation if humans were actually A.I which i don't think we are. Elon musk wants to plug a neuro lance in our brains which would make us transhumanism and our reality will be a simulation from that point on.
Upvoted. 😀 What an interesting article. My husband and i have pondered the likelihood of this scenario and have had stimulating conversations on the possibility of living in someone else's (or something) simulation. Where is the beginning and where is the end? is this why some religions believe in reincarnation? Do we recycle back into the simulation once the current one ends? Definitely an interesting subject! Thanks for posting.
your welcome. :-)
This kind of topic is one of my favorite 😊
I’d like to think that the ‘access codes’ (to crack open the possibilities for perceiving it) you’re talking about is something we can hand ourselves via genome self-editing. Only then will we have an idea what to do with our enhanced perception of reality. For know, man fumbles onward on guesswork for a crutch, though it’s surely uplifting that many of us have evolved beyond beliefs in the sky daddy and other such nonsense that smells of hay and dung too much to be the answer.
genome self-editing might be one tool in the box. however, there are many ways to skin a cat.
the lab route may be effective in some circumstances. though, given what epigenetics has been proving about thought alone affecting genetics, genetic coding may soon enough be as easily doable as consciously intending it alone. well, truth be, it already is - we just haven't exactly unveiled the process and taught it so it's common knowledge yet...
Really interesting post I would suggest you to learn more about science :)
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I loved reading this... great
, consumable breakdown of what a stimulation is. Look forward to more blogs from you x
Can I upvote twice? Enthralling read.
Wow, excellent exploration. Enough DMT might help make this issue moot ;-)
Hehe. Perhaps... :-)