We almost certainly live in a simulation. I think I figured out why

Yes, your claim is very much like that of the existence of God. You just call Him a simulator instead to sound techy and gratuitously threw in some sciencey stuff about quantum.

Right...and?

Ok, sounds great bruh.

If true, every race Ingebrigtsen is in is a simulation.

Yes. Why? To make $ primarily off of apathetic, unimaginative souls who are trying to fill time on their long journey to the middle.

You are saying we are all in a simulation for $?

There are some physics oddities that lend themselves to a simulated universe. But the idea that some ultra-intelligent civilization is voluntarily re-living inside a simulation is downright stupid.

The lack of a universal physics model, however, is not proof of a simulation. There may eventually be a Eureka! moment where it all comes together. Who knows.

But it's not really worth dwelling on simulation possibilities, tbh. There's no way to prove anything. No way to divine the purpose behind a simulation. Just guesses upon guesses without evidence that ultimately is a waste of brain power.

and that's not a "philosophical argument." It's just half-baked speculation.

It's a fallacy as old as time. If the "real world" is somewhere outside observing this simulation, what if that real world is a simulation too? It's simulations all the way out to infinity.

The universe is too large and complex to be a simulation.

I was cutting firewood this morning and smashed my finger something bad in the freezing cold.

Definitely a simulation I thought...

:)

Is this some new weird religious/cult ideology?

ya it is a simulation.

that said, it is children looking at the guts of a computer and software.

without knowing what a chip is, what a transistor is, logic and circuits? completely unaware that is a thing.

and software, algorithms, AI

all of which is the most primitive level of understanding.

metaphorically spreaking, people are learning to crawl, but think they are capable of 4 min miles.

it is a paradigm of hubris. dumass.

for those adhering to a "physical" solid world, go ahead and explain that. now that idea is far fetched.

Crascrennob--sorry, I mean bon, didn't mean to get it backwards--I feel for you.

Such a dumb post

first off, no. sounds like you just can't accept reality for what it is so you are trying to lose yourself in a fiction.

Also, don't use the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics to try to back this up. The whole observation causes a wave function to collapse idea is merely an "interpretation". We literally don't know what really happens. That interpretation was simply adopted by many (though certainly not everyone) in the physics community back when QM was first established and has sort of become doctrine in the generations since, but it is literally just an interpretation, not fact.

So you should be very careful when trying to use the whole "observation" part of QM because 1) it is just a convenient interpretation, and there are other different interpretations that don't involve observation-based wave function collapse, and 2) the idea of "observations" causing stuff in QM is generally misunderstood by the public and you are almost certainly thinking about it incorrectly and it absolutely does not mean "human observation".

I think of it more as a relativity-type thing, in that physics works based on differing perspectives but the physics will agree once information is exchanged. Take the schrodinger's cat example. While the humans outside the box can, in the copenhagen interpretation of QM, view the cat in the box as a superposition of alive and dead, the cat certainly knows if it is alive or dead, and to the cat's perspective the humans would be in a superposition of alive and dead. So it is more about what a given observer can say about a situation at any given time, which will differ based on different observers. And QM as far as we can tell puts a limit on how much information we can know (the more you know about the momentum, the less you know about the position, and vice versa), but when the barriers are broken down to allow for information exchange (in the cat example this means when the box is opened) the results will agree (cat dead or alive, humans dead or alive or whatever). This is in a way very similar to the concept of relativity in classical mechanics in that what is observed depends on the perspective of the observer, but when information is able to be exchanged among differing perspectives the physics will agree, given the appropriate transformations for the observers based on their differing perspectives.

uhh okay after that long winded description, my point is don't use a vague understanding of quantum mechanics to try to back up your inability to accept reality haha ;p

It seems like wayyy more of a stretch to me to believe we're in a hyper-advanced "simulation" created by other intelligent lifeforms than to just believe in God.

"Simulation theory" is religion for people who think nothing can exist beyond what they can perceive through their senses and can only think of things in terms of human technologies.

So, you think physicality came before thought? MIND, idea, simulate the idea in the MIND and find a way to experience it, in simulated reality. Base reality 1st, then sims managed by Spirit host and Souls used to animate avatars. Souls animating avatars that play video games. LOL, I played gta and my character played video games LOL. GOD/MIND and fractals of it/us, play your role. MIND, basereality & simulations, videogames/vr. Can be nothing else logically. I share the way out of this Spirits soultrap, if anyone is ready for it.

Ah, so you've just 'discovered' philosophy and are now questioning free will and your entire existence? Love that for you. But hey, maybe give some credit to the thousands of philosophers who have been asking these same questions for centuries. Ever heard of Aristotle? Socrates? Maybe start there and work your way up—it's a long journey, possibly lifelong. But hey, no worries, right? If reality isn’t real, you can just hit reset. Just, uh… be careful. That whole 'everyone but me is fake' mindset? Yeah, that’s how you end up on a true crime documentary.

You should read "Seth Speaks" written by an energy non-physical entity transmitting the words through a medium Jane Roberts. Seth said exactly what you're stating as well as being in alignment with the multi-verse theory of quantum mechanics.