4nik8 said:

If we do exist in a simulation, then we cannot by definition exist outside of it. Therefore, the simulation we may or may not exist in is from our perspective, as real as it gets.

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wu wei said:

Either way, we're not supposed to know it if we are. That kind of knowledge would be disastrous and therefore it's not written into our original code. It would limit us more than we know. Although I do believe that we 'are' in one, I believe the only way that information could be useful is when it's a non-invested 'half-knowledge' of sorts. Conceptual understanding and not getting any closer to it than that. Either way you have to live in the world you create for yourself the best you can.

The idea is to blow the hinges off the gates and be consistently living in whatever fabrication of your own in your mind all the time. But of course, also being able to handle the practical affairs of life. I think that life is infinite and always recycling all its information and that we ourselves respawn infinitely after reaching the various intensity points that spring outwardly from each new big bang we experience. Knowing the secrets of life can be very limiting however so at best, put your faith in your ability to influence destiny if you're starting to think we have no control over our own lives and it's all preprogrammed simulations, or even if it's randomized it seems that it would be out of our control. For the most part though we understand the laws of physics and our natural world; the rules of life, and can bend them more easily to our will once we understand how to bend the world (when we bend our perceptions). Kind of like waking up in the matrix once you see the patterns breathing behind every material object, you see the code running and flowing with it's patterned buoyancy underneath everything you were once ignorant to. That's what waking up is to me. I used to think that the revelation meant everything was out of our control but it was in a sense waking me up to the truth that everything in the world is meant for us to play with and interact on ever deeper levels, or however deeply you like. The only thing is that this might not all be original if we're recycling endlessly, but it also would be a fresh breath of air as we would have regained consciousness for that brief period of time each round of infinity.

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