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I was listening to the latest Lex Friedman podcast from the Amazon jungle and there was an interesting comment that the “reality is a simulation” folks have nev

I was listening to the latest Lex Friedman podcast from the Amazon jungle and there was an interesting comment that the “reality is a simulation” folks have never had to survive in the Amazon and that the belief is somewhat of a side effect of the relative safety of everyday life.

imchillyb 2y ago
The realm of the quantum does not care about the Amazonian wildlife and the converse is also true. The brilliant minds that believe we are indeed in a simulation have extrapolated this concept from the weirdness that is found within the realm of quantum, the realm of the sub micro and nano. Religious folk believe we live in some sort of simulation as well: "You are travelers and sojourners here. This is not your home. God is of spirit not of flesh." Don't know what 'spirit' is, but it's not carbon-based matter. Don't know what home is, but it's evidently not here. The Bible suggests that nothing here is real and the only real things are found in the spiritual realm. Simulation, or manufactured space, it doesn't really matter to us. Like Mr. Friedman pointed out, we have to deal with the space around us and whether the space around us is simulation or not is irrelevant.
- j16sdiz 2y ago
  Brief in afterlife is somewhat different from brief in simulation. In a simulation, you are just a bit of data. You can be destroyed or duplicated, multiple instance of you may exist, even at the same time. In (most) brief of afterlife, "something in you" is unique, last forever, really do matter, etc.
  - em-bee 2y ago
    not necessarily. when i play a computer game then i am a real player in inside a simulation, but i am not a simulation myself. so our life could still be a simulation, and, to use the religious terms, our souls would be the players
- em-bee 2y ago
  according to religion, the purpose of our life as individuals is to learn the qualities and faculties that we need to live in the spiritual realm. it would therefore totally make sense for life to be a simulation, just like a pilot practices in a simulation before flying a real plane.

imchillyb 2y ago

The realm of the quantum does not care about the Amazonian wildlife and the converse is also true. The brilliant minds that believe we are indeed in a simulation have extrapolated this concept from the weirdness that is found within the realm of quantum, the realm of the sub micro and nano. Religious folk believe we live in some sort of simulation as well: "You are travelers and sojourners here. This is not your home. God is of spirit not of flesh." Don't know what 'spirit' is, but it's not carbon-based matter. Don't know what home is, but it's evidently not here. The Bible suggests that nothing here is real and the only real things are found in the spiritual realm. Simulation, or manufactured space, it doesn't really matter to us. Like Mr. Friedman pointed out, we have to deal with the space around us and whether the space around us is simulation or not is irrelevant.

j16sdiz 2y ago
Brief in afterlife is somewhat different from brief in simulation. In a simulation, you are just a bit of data. You can be destroyed or duplicated, multiple instance of you may exist, even at the same time. In (most) brief of afterlife, "something in you" is unique, last forever, really do matter, etc.
- em-bee 2y ago
  not necessarily. when i play a computer game then i am a real player in inside a simulation, but i am not a simulation myself. so our life could still be a simulation, and, to use the religious terms, our souls would be the players
em-bee 2y ago
according to religion, the purpose of our life as individuals is to learn the qualities and faculties that we need to live in the spiritual realm. it would therefore totally make sense for life to be a simulation, just like a pilot practices in a simulation before flying a real plane.