briandigital
briandigital

If you found out today, definitely, that you are living in a simulation, what if anything would you change about how you go about living?

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mattgriffin@masto.ai
mattgriffin@masto.ai

@briandigital depends on the limits of the system.

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briandigital
briandigital

@mattgriffin that’s the trick. You don’t know the limits. You only know it’s a simulation, but it feels real.

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talvinrue
talvinrue

@briandigital Well, all consequences would still be the same, right? Whether they are good or bad consequences, and whatever the action. My phenomenological experience of my human existence would still be exactly as I know it to be. Current reality might as well be a simulation, and the current simulation might as well be reality, and it would make no difference. So if I want to change anything because I live in a simulation, I could as well change anything because I live in reality. Both takes are equally meaningful. I hope you do not mind; I want to ask us another question: If we realised that we are definitely alive, would we change anything about how we go about living?

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briandigital
briandigital

@talvinrue my thinking was along the same lines as you. Assuming this simulation is not of the Matrix-type, in which there is hope to escape, I think if we are but digital figments, the consequences remain the same. But I could see some folks going in a nihilistic direction.

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talvinrue
talvinrue

@briandigital Oh, yeah, me too, and it would be easy enough to understand them. At least immediately, until further reasoning. By the way, if it was possible to escape, would you?

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