Are We In A Simulated Universe?

[warriorfan]

[COLOR=Teal]You have control over your actions but it is not absolute. If you don't want to eat an apple before say 9am, your hand will not betray you. You have options, they are not illusory just because you dicarded all but one at a particular time for example. But they ARE dictated by a set of ever-changing internal and external variables unknown to you.
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[COLOR=Teal]So while you do have input into your own action, from the perspective of someone who knows ALL the variables pertaining your decision making, a God/Creator/etc, your action is not arbitrary, it is not by chance, whim, or unforseen circumstance. Foresight here however doesn't negate choice, since it's merely the result of an accurate appraisal of everything that goes into how we make our own choices.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Teal]This whole discussion reminds me a bit of Steven Meretzky's A Mind Forever Voyaging which explores similar motifs.[/COLOR]

Your experiences that lead you to the train of thinking of wether or not to eat the apple before 9 were not entirely of your own though. You got to this point of reasoning largly due to factors you had no control over. Therefor you Did not have complete control, not free will. Good post btw though. I’m not necessarily on one side when it comes to this discussion. Playing a bit of devils advocate at this point. It is a very interesting discussion from both sides however.

[Draz]

Honestly. Any idea is an idea worth thinking about. We have no clue why were here. If we are the only ones. It gets even more sketchy when we think about the possibility of God and if God exists who created God.

Nothing makes sense.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

[COLOR=Teal]You have control over your actions but it is not absolute. If you don't want to eat an apple before say 9am, your hand will not betray you. You have options, they are not illusory just because you dicarded all but one at a particular time for example. But they ARE dictated by a set of ever-changing internal and external variables unknown to you.
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[COLOR=Teal]So while you do have input into your own action, from the perspective of someone who knows ALL the variables pertaining your decision making, a God/Creator/etc, your action is not arbitrary, it is not by chance, whim, or unforseen circumstance. Foresight here however doesn't negate choice, since it's merely the result of an accurate appraisal of everything that goes into how we make our own choices.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Teal]This whole discussion reminds me a bit of Steven Meretzky's A Mind Forever Voyaging which explores similar motifs.[/COLOR]

Excellent post.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Honestly. Any idea is an idea worth thinking about. We have no clue why were here. If we are the only ones. It gets even more sketchy when we think about the possibility of God and if God exists who created God.

Nothing makes sense.

You know where to go to start searching for answers.

[Draz]

You know where to go to start searching for answers.

But who created 'HE'

And why can't it be 'SHE'

[iamgine]

How would we even be able to differentiate between God and a higher dimension alien species?

Who said we are able to? We may not. It might be above our understanding.

[n00bie]

But who created 'HE'

And why can't it be 'SHE'

So true. The human brain is so limited we'll never understand the concept of how God came to be.

[Doctor K]

I think the idea that we are not in a simulated universe being 1/1 billion is laughable. First of all, where did the 1 billion number even come from? I'm not asking why exactly 1 billion, but why not 1 million or 1 trillion? Is there any math behind this number? Seems like it was just pulled straight out of someone's @ss.

2nd, just think about any time in our history we were 'so sure' (999999999/1000000000 in this case) we knew how the world actually is were we actually right? Right now this is just a theory, but 2000 years ago we also had theories that seemed right to us logically during those times. How close were we? The theories we have 2000 years later the people 2000 years ago would not even be able to comprehend. And do you actually believe (with 99.999999% certainty) that in 2000 more years this theory we are coming up with today is correct?


The truth is we don't know. And we will never know in our life time and its certainly beyond our comprehension today. And there is 1 out of 1 billion chance that is not the case