RE: The Simulation Hypothesis - Are we really living in the matrix? (featuring @sauravrungta as author)

This was a concept I imagined long ago pre-matrix, purely by accident and as part of a game.

I was young in the 80s and 90s and pretty angry at organized religion, persecution, killing for religion, intolerance, etc. You name it. I was angry.

I was not a drinker or user of drugs, though I had no problem with others partaking and many of my friends did. I didn't need them, I was plenty weird and interesting to most without their assistance.

One night sitting at a party I came up with a new mental game. I hypothesized that we as a group could make up a completely plausible religion in one hour that was just as difficult to prove or disprove as any that are out there now.

It turns out we could, and we did it many times. Many of them were funny though I don't think we ever quite beat the comedy that has been achieved by The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ramen, may you be blessed by his noodley appendage.

We hit upon variants of the simulation idea quite a few times.

When The Matrix came out I was not surprised by it's content but I was extremely pleased to see a visual realization of such ideas.

It has gained a lot of traction since Elon Musk came out endorsing it as a distinct possibility.

For me it is amusing as it is musing I had with drunken cohorts coming alive and going mainstream.

It helped that in my youth I was into physics, computers (fractals, etc), philosophy, new age concepts, and I was angry at religion so I studied it furiously.

GOOD POST. Thank you for putting it out there.

Good choice of imagery to go along with it too.