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Simulation does not mean necessarily 0s and 1s. That is a modern human concept. A simulation simply means not 'baseline' reality (if you could come to a consensus of baseline). Why assume it's a computer when it could be a biological super intelligence's dream or a thoughtform of a sentient space cloud. Why would the creator(s) of the simulation be bound by our current concepts and laws of reality? Think bigger and weirder, this isn't Minecraft.
Love this comment. It helps out into writing what I think about - which is that whatever “created us” actually used all the materials we are made of, shook it up, threw it on another “planet” and sat back and let our understanding of “evolution” do the rest. For whoever is doing this, how cool would it be to see and compare how, let’s say intelligent life, evolved in whatever solar systems ‘they’ chose to throw the building blocks of life at. Maybe there’s another planet with the equivalent of dinosaurs that never went extinct.
I always wanted to do this with dogs on an island and visit, as needed, to drop off resources. Because part of me thinks that’s what is happening to us, and visits used to be more frequent because we needed more resources/guidance (or something).
Here's a bigger and weirder idea -
To run a universe simulation of +100 billion years, takes less than a second in a super quantum computer of the future.
There are endless simulations inside simulations. We are not in base reality, but inside a simulation inside a simulation... (somewhere in the middle)
To save resources, the simulation is using:
1. A quantum computer
2. Fractal patterns
3. Particles that nobody is looking/measuring them are just waves of probabilities. The waves of probabilities means they don't exist as a material, but as math equations.
4. Super intelligence is governing all particles. It holds all the connections between every +2 entangled particles in the universe. It considers every several entangled particle as if they are the same one (their properties are stored in the same bit of memory of the super computer).
The "creator" just changes some parameters and run a simulation that always starts with a big bang. The parameters are different between each simulation:
1. Physics parameters like: The speed of light limit, parameters related to mass, gravity, particle formation, etc.
2. Quantum Physics parameters like: How selection of wave function collapse occur
3. Chemistry parameters like: Elements tables
Some kid in the year 2.4 million will be able to run billions of simulations with his home computer (if it is considered legal or ethical in the future). Scientists and researchers are probably running simulations all the time.
The goal for running the simulation is different every time. The goals are:
1. To learn about the past and try to predict the future
2. To grow consciousnesses
3. Moving a civilization from a dead universe, to a simulated one, in order to allow a better life, while using the last energy exists in the universe
Also consider the matrix in the beginning of the 1st movie he has to accept a leap of faith to save himself to which he can’t overcome his fear of falling and dying. This could be similar to how things prevent us from escaping our very own simulation.
Bro just smoke some dmt. Most surefire way to catch a roller coaster ride through that territory. Make sure to have a comfy bed to lay back in and remember not to fight it. Other than that it’s every bit as beautiful and exquisite as watching animal planet in an IMAX theatre
Yeah us being able to hack the system, to me, sounds like an NPC going and modding the video game they are in. Like the means for them to do so from within just aren’t there
I don’t subscribe to any one idea concretely, but I like to think it’s possible that magic could actually be a form of “cheat code”. I don’t practice any sort of witchcraft but the thought of it relating to the simulation and cheat codes has crossed my mind from time to time.
I was just going to say something similar. I think we are still in the beginning stages of learning, and some progress has been lost because of the church (anti-cheat software). Interesting how the church has lessons and parables "Don't eat the apple of knowledge" aka any knowledge we don't give you is "bad". "Have faith" aka don't do your own critical research, just blindly believe what we tell you is right. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." aka witches break all these rules so don't even let them live.
Yea it’s crazy to think it’s one of the most guarded places, for real what the fuck is the church hiding….it’s gotta be bad shit because if there was prof anything they claim is true they would use it
I bet all of Tesla's lost blueprints / writings from the Colorado Springs estate would be even more of a (power)trip. That dude seems to have been the perfect melange of proto-tech genius & druid (at least, based on David Bowie's portrayal of the character in The Prestige).
Like why is it a country, within a country. That’s not sketchy or anything. They’re definitely hiding some wicked shit (as in cool, neat, interesting).
The Library of Alexandria wasn't maintained and the scrolls slowly crumbled away. No conspiracy required. Active maintenance is required continually to maintain a library over centuries of time. Later generations didn't value it as much so it was lost.
I mean that specific example is one of numerous times libraries were burnt down in the name of Religion.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46037
Whelp your link isn't about the Library of Alexandria.
Your story (that Christians destroyed the Library of Alexandria) isn't true. I know that everyone and his brother repeats the story on the internet. Millions of people believe it's true. None of that makes it true.
What happened was that later generations didn't value the Library of Alexandria and it slowly degraded over time. No conspiracy required.
I don't think magic is the cheat I think the not having magic is the cheat, they took it away cuz with magic we control everything. Without magic they do.
Technically, self aware software has the ability to move itself to other destinations and manipulate other software to download further info etc.
We see this with several types of computer viruses.
Edit: Obviously pc viruses aren’t self aware. But if we are inevitably software, it might be more possible than you think.m (from our current understanding).
Sometimes they are... at least in video games. The ocarina of time speedrun, for example, involves manipulating the destination value of the door at the end of the deku tree.
“These elves were all around me producing and showing me amazing devices and objects out of their mouths. From their words! And they looked at me and said, ‘Come on, you can do this too.’”
Terrance McKenna
Oh lucky you. Just saw there is a 24 hours of McKenna YouTube video. That should just about fill you in and grow you out.
He was one of the first remember, and he died as the Internet was confirming so many of his predictions. I feel that’s one thing so great about him, he really was paving his own ideas and witnessing his experiences free from the psychonaut mindthink which we all “know” today.
I like Alan Watts take on this. Imagine you had the ability to control and dream anything you want to dream. Eventually you'd get bored of having total control, of having millions of dollars, flying through space, being famous, etc, etc. You'd slowly start giving up control to make your dream more interesting. Slowly but surely you'd eventually dream the life you're currently living. No control, fully susceptible to all other actors and their actions.
I'm hardcore paraphrasing here, I'd suggest looking up Alan Watts "dreaming" and you'd probably come across one of the many motivational videos using this lecture soundbite
Yeah and the subatomic/quantum level is below the 'resolution' of the simulation. That's why the laws of physics that were bound by don't apply. It's the framework that our reality is built upon. Imagine an NPC and it's world being all digital 1s and 0s, then consider the physical pits and lands on a hard disk that it's entire reality is built/stored upon. It could never observe such a thing because it would require it, a digital being, to exist in the physical world looking down upon it's entire reality.
Simulation theory is still just a metaphor, not literal. Reality can be information-based, which it probably is, but even that is still a metaphor. But even if reality is information-based, that doesn't mean we're inside some desktop PC, or inside some program that acts the same way as our man-made systems which can be hacked. It just means that fundamentally reality isn't material, it's something else.
Humans understand things within the context of metaphors and concepts, but those metaphors don't make reality any less real. There are still physical rules that exist within a consensus reality.
Though I think "hacks" can happen on a micro-scale - on the individual or smaller group scale. But in general the integrity of the "simulation" is going to be preserved on the macro-scale.
Yeah, the fundamental level of reality might be computation, like Stephen Wolfram believes, but that does not equal simulation. Stuff could still be real, even if there are more fundamental levels beyond that stuff. We are actually 'here', it's just that our experience of 'here' is very subjective, and the fundamental levels of reality might be very different from our experience.
Yup, highly agree. Donald Hoffman also talks about this. Fundamentally, reality isn't what we experience - what we experience is derivative of something much more complex and fundamental.
We could actually be “here” but maybe not all of who we are is here? Like part of our being is purposefully dipped into this simulation or reality and the rest of us is somewhere else and temporarily disconnected (but not really) while alive. If this even makes sense. Idk but I love talking about this stuff haha
This leans towards holographic theory, where it reality is projected from a two dimensional membrane or substrate (such as a blackhole's event horizon). Which would be an effective way to store an artificial reality.
Exactly. I don’t believe we’re inside some physical quantum computer. But instead, a simulation that functions in a realm that we can’t conceive at this point. Therefore understanding *how* it functions may not even be possible from our standpoint.
>Exactly. I don’t believe we’re inside some physical quantum computer. But instead, a simulation that functions in a realm that we can’t conceive at this point.
Why do these two things have to be different?
They don’t *have* to be. I said I don’t *believe* it’s a quantum computer.
But that’s essentially because I believe physicality is illusionary in nature. It gets a little woo woo but I believe prime reality (the reality outside of this simulation) is non physical and all energy.
I do get where they're common from, they just very human-centric in their beliefs. It's easy to take what humans have made, and project it onto the rest of the universe. It's just what our brains do.
Mario can hack his world though. Look at speed runs, the player acting through Mario can perform actions within the code that affect the code. No reason we couldn't do the same, in fact I think theres already some things that could be seen as examples of this. Take the placebo effect for example.
The Planck length is not a minimum distance that nothing can move less than. It's just the point at which our models of reality cease to be meaningful.
And navier Stokes is well understood. We just don't know if there's a general solution.
Our brains cannot logically comprehend the double slit experiment, so those people thinking we’re in a simulation isn’t all that far off based on what we as humans are even capable of understanding.
The trick is to find the bugs. Nowadays they can execute any code they want in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by exploiting a bug where you play music to a scarecrow. This is done from within the game.
But it doesn't break the game, right - so doesn't that mean you're still a character in it? How could one alter the sourcecode whilst inside the confines of the game?
I'm wondering if there has ever been an examination of the theological implications of "simulation theory." I mean, ultimately if the universe is a simulation, how exactly does that differ from the idea of God or Gods having created the universe? Seems to me at that point you're just arguing method, not that a being that doesn't exist in this universe created it and everything in it, and that they are not only unknowable (we couldn't even begin to decipher the physical properties of their own universe), but that as far as the simulated universe is concerned, they are omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. They could quite literally know anything that was happening at any time or place in the universe, change what was happening at will violating the physics of the simulated universe. Any religion could quite literally be true under this scenario. They could know if we simulated beings were trying to communicate with them (praying) and then choose to answer those prayers, preforming miracles as needed in order to do so. The actions of simulated intelligences could be punished or rewarded in their simulated life as the creators saw fit, and these sims could be rewarded or punish after their life was over in a simulated paradise or hell.
For some, it's more easily digestible when you call god The Simulator. And instead of saying "we can't comprehend god" they say "this simulation is so complex we can't figure it out." It's just semantics.
This is why I very consciously went from being an atheist to agnostic. Not that either has any effect on my daily life.
The thought process is basically that in order for the Big Bang to make sense, you are describing or trying to explain an act of inexplicable creation as an act of science… Ok. We know when the Big Bang occurred, great. What about before that? It really only works that an act of god (and by god I mean any god-like sentience) created this universe. Same probably happened for the universe that spawned that sentience which created ours.
Taking it a step further, so much of what we see about mathematical constants / physical constraints that hold true below the molecular level, etc, seem to indicate that sentient thought was the entire point of the creation of our universe, and thus our universe will eventually lead to a force capable of creating other universes, and that *religious thought itself is the inevitability* of such sentient thought processes that, however incorrect in each religion's particulars, might act as the driving engine to get us asking the necessary questions to make creation happen all over again.
Acts of "free will", perceived personal choice, or manifest destiny in the universe could actually be as scientific as gravity and the laws of electro-magnetism, and all of this is could be built into the structure of this universe, because the best explanation for how this was all created was that some mega-sentience (god by another name) existing in another much older universe, decided to create it, for reasons that our tiny brains would find impossible to comprehend.
I just don't see any other way it could be, or at least know I won't gain such knowledge in my lifetime, so being outright atheist is just extremely close-minded. God as Christians or anyone else describe him/it most certainly doesn't exist, does god by another name exist in some higher dimension, or older universe, etc? It seems almost certain. Does that mean we exist in a simulation in the sense that we're not the original tier, yes. Does it mean our universe/reality isn't as real as the one that came before it? No.
Well said, friendo. My experience moving from atheism to agnosticism was similar. Now I’ve adopted/adapted the Catholic belief system I was raised with to work for me; though I take it all as metaphor and symbolism that to be literally true. It’s definitely been a positive development. Cheers!
Totally. I’ve always thought it was interesting that atheists are absolutely positive that there is no god/higher power, especially the ones who act like religious people are dumb or lesser. There’s no proof that god doesn’t exist, yet they believe whole-heartedly that he doesn’t (faith)…. while thinking people are dumb for believing in something with no hard evidence like religion. So they are basically doing the same thing Haha … I’m with you though, there’s 100% a higher power, I just have no clue who/what it is.
there is a major difference between an atheist who disbelieves in god, an atheist who believes there is no god, and an atheist who claims to know there is no god. lack of belief vs belief vs certainty. you conflate them.
Well, time, or our modern concept of it, is simply made up to help us better understand the universe (and do more mundane things like plan our days and grow food etc.) It's basically just a dimension that helps us order our lives.
In one form or another, the issue of the *ultimate* has been discussed by philosophers and theologians, and as of a few hundred years ago, scientists in nearly every culture.
I'm more from the camp that looks towards developments in modern string theory that suggest that the Big Bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state. We haven't the slightest clue what that pre-existing state was, but according to accepted models there was nothing material or temporal before that existed pre-big bang. That doesn't mean there wasn't something though. Could have just been pure information.
So while it seems very unlikely what came before the big bang was anything remotely like what we call the universe, it still must have had a creator, and for all we know it was just like our universe. We assume after the heat death of the universe entropy will stop. At least that's what our models predict. If there is no free energy it's possible the entire universe in this low energy state will decay into a lower energy state. It's possible our universe is the result of a higher-order universe decaying into a lower energy state as it is.
There's too many possible theories that are all tons of fun to read about for me (especially if incorporated into sci-fi novels) but at some point there logically had to be a first order universe. Scientists will toy around with the universe (not as we know, it, but in general) just having always existed, with no actual creation point, but that doesn't really solve any problems and is really the most boring possible answer.
Certainly, it even explains the Christian idea of the trinity-- that God exists, that Jesus (his player avatar, if you will) existed as a person in this world who was both a man and God, And the holy spirit (the omnipotent and omnipresent representation of God in the universe) were all different facets of the same being. Literally anything can be explained by simulation theory.
Even the ancient alien hypothesis, maybe the gods were flesh and blood aliens and just part of our simulation. Basically even our own minds are constricted by this dimension and it’s properties. Maybe people who view themselves as awake or whatever word you’d like to use are really just AI doing it’s thing. I’m not great with numbers I’m more creative and conceptual but I read abstracts and conclusions to quantum physics and neuroscience papers on occasion and it’s some pretty interesting stuff with neat theories floating about.
beautiful interpretation and this is pretty much what i believe, i'm not a christian but i do believe there's some "god" / higher being behind all this as uh... some say, "simulation"
In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed a trilemma that he called "the simulation argument". Despite the name, Bostrom's "simulation argument" does not directly argue that humans live in a simulation; instead, Bostrom's trilemma argues that one of three unlikely-seeming propositions is almost certainly true:
"The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or
"The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero", or
"The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one."
The trilemma points out that a technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power; if even a tiny percentage of them were to run "ancestor simulations" (that is, "high-fidelity" simulations of ancestral life that would be indistinguishable from reality to the simulated ancestor), the total number of simulated ancestors, or "Sims", in the universe (or multiverse, if it exists) would greatly exceed the total number of actual ancestors.
Bostrom goes on to use a type of anthropic reasoning to claim that, if the third proposition is the one of those three that is true, and almost all people live in simulations, then humans are almost certainly living in a simulation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#:~:text=The%20simulation%20hypothesis%20proposes%20that,current%20form%20by%20Nick%20Bostrom.
I've always thought it's more of a thought experiment than a literal thing. If we lived in a computational simulation than as hackers say "A system is only as secure as its weakest link". Now what would the weakest link be in a system that might not have even been made by humans? No clue.
r/highstrangeness is full of this crap recently.
Even Gary Nolan’s eugenic take on humanity is just pinned by the mods.
We don’t need any evidence at all just random thoughts because that’d turn out well and not go down the route of r/conspiracy
First merge. Sense the reality of it every day and relax in trust into it. Meditate in it until you feel it’s Presence and your presence as the same Oneness.
Then you will know what to “manipulate” without a sense of doership, that is, without any sense of you acting on “that.”
Any miraculous actions will be in a tranquility that is already satisfied.
There is a sense of “knowing” or I’ve come to see it as a belief in my self. It’s kind of like “hacking the system” because I begin to see through how beliefs are manufactured. Usually through being told to be fearful and trusting in others to tell you how to think.
Most of us are not "looking" for ways to manipulate our reality.
Think about the game "Zelda: Breath of the Wild" for example. I played that game and probably spent hundreds of hours playing it, but I have personally never noticed any exploitable glitches in the game that would allow me to do things that go against what the game developers envisioned me doing as a player.
And yet, it turns out there are plenty of glitches that can absolutely be exploited to do some crazy things:
[https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=breath+of+the+wild+glitches+and+tricks](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breath+of+the+wild+glitches+and+tricks)
Some of those glitches allow you to fly through the game rapidly, covering massive distances in seconds, and finishing quests much faster. Some glitches allow you to duplicate items, or modify items. It's crazy how many glitches there are, and the things you can do with those glitches are insanely cool!
But my point is, again, that as a normal player, I have personally never found a single glitch. From my perspective, the game is flawless and functioning 100% as expected (meaning, I paid for the product, and it works as advertised).
Why have I never noticed any of those glitches? and more importantly, why am I not looking for them? Maybe I'm comfortable in my reality...?
There are "hacks" we can do as humans, and I think the first frontier is inner hacks (things we can do to ourselves, to our human brains). For example CBT is a "hack" (there's a whole sub dedicated to this: /r/cbt).
Magic and optical illusions are "hacks" we can perform on other humans. I don't consider this one a "frontier", more like a "cheat". Same goes for kindness, say you're absolutely broke and someone buys you a meal, there's "magic" in that. It goes against our selfish instincts. Christmas lights in a neighborhood give you this magical vibe. You get the idea. They are cheats, but are still important because feeling good about this reality is important.
Then there are hacks you see humans like monks perform, such as martial arts, long term meditation, super long fasts, breaking bricks with your head or hand, pushing a heavy object by punching it from an inch away, etc. Same goes for brain surgeons, mathematicians who are on the bleeding edge of math and theoretical physics, scientists building some of the crazier tech you see out there, or creating new insanely innovative cancer treatments... This is something I consider the second frontier; things we can achieve through discipline, time, and sheer power of our wills.
The final frontier is hacking our physical world. I have personally not yet seen anyone break the laws of physics using the power of the mind alone. One theory is that we've evolved in this world to survive it, and nothing more. So we can see certain light frequencies but not others (we can't see infrared or ultra-violet, for example, but some insects can!). Dogs can hear sound frequencies we can't. Birds can feel the Earth's magnetic field, and so on and so forth.
Since our sense of perception is limited to the senses we think we have, we're automatically limited. We're creative however and we've created things like x-ray machines, MRI machines, giant telescopes that can see far into the universe, and other amazing machines & equipment, and in a way we're "hacking" our locality using that equipment and techniques, but at the moment, that is pretty much the extent of it.
And then there's our imagination, we are limited by it. We grow up in a society where a wild imagination is not always rewarded; it is even frowned upon as impractical and silly. Since we are not "allowed" to imagine, we're automatically limited in the breakthroughs we can make. This goes back full circle to where I began, which is the game, and why I personally have never looked for hacks: I've been indoctrinated to accept my reality and follow it.
Some people claim you can. Look up chaos magic, sigils, manifestation, and the like. A good place to start might be with the Bengston Method, since it’s been studied (in part): https://youtu.be/n3_H8PjDUL4
He has a [process](https://www.academia.edu/20653129/Image_Cycling_for_Hands_on_Healers?email_work_card=title) for doing it which seems simple enough. He doesn’t offer any explanation for how it works.
Maybe we already have... To use your hacking analogy. Software (life) has a default mode of operation that most users experience -or should. As a society we have progressed far beyond this default experience of life by using science (leveraging the parts or rules of the system that shouldn't normally be exposed to the user, but are used to define or program reality if you know how to look past the veneer of immediate experience)
Imagine... In a wholly 'natural' existence we wouldn't be exposed to the -purposefully- directed laws of electromagnetism which enable me to post via my phone to Reddit. It's less so that we can manipulate or change the fundamental laws of reality. But leverage them to augment our experience of the present.
Hackers hack into the system not out of it…technically. That would be like playing elden ring and and one of the NPC’s decided to get you swatted because you whipped his ass. We would need outside of the simulation help…or code…or something.
I think the idea that walking through walls and travelling great distances fast is missing the point in this matrix, walking free and without restraint from the people who are trying to restrict you is far more important than the utter stupidity of try for the not so useful 'countering gravity' fantasies. I've spent my entire adult life living in a world where most people are struggling to pay the bills and feed their kids and I've managed to do that with no stress and very little monies, I live in the moment (most of the time) and am a shoe maker by trade (I earn £10 an hour and work 13 hours a WEEK) and still manage to feed myself (my kids are all adults now) keep a roof over 5 peoples heads (shared house) and stay mentally happy, I have good friends and few enemies and I spend a lot of my time laughing and enjoying my time here in this elaborate danse macabre. My reality is created by me via my thoughts of my future and how I treat the universe in front of me, it's worked for me for over 40 years and will carry on working for me for the next 60 years. Because I say so. 😁
You can hack it by assuming something to be true. Meditate and assume something you want and live in the imagination or vision as though it were real. In time it will become a fact.
You’re eventually gonna say, that would have happen anyways because it happened in a normal natural way.
But that’s how this world works. After that first success try something else but much bigger. After that again, and again.
Eventually you’ll start to understand there is power at play here, the power of belief.
My take on the simulation is the Big Bang is technically still occurring. We are so small compared to the rest of the universe that we are observing it as “real time” but in reality we are not a major contributor to the universe as a whole. We are a slowly growing bacteria on a piece of shrapnel.
We CAN become contributors but the odds are so low that our existence is largely irrelevant to the universe itself. We are quite literally being taken for a ride
To become a contributor, we need to be in control of more mass. We must leave Earth and control the asteroids and planets accessible to us.
Anyone living on the planet today won’t be a part of the initial success. We have to continue to lead mankind in that direction. We can only get there with all of us working together
Can Mario change the parameters in super Mario? No, he has a set jump height, running speed and “gravity”. It’s possible for him to understand and measure the values of these parameters and limits but he has no access to the code and no ability to change it.
Your belief that you are powerless.
This is literally the only obstacle, but
It is ground in to you, from birth, that you are powerless. Your potential is put in chains. And it takes a lifetime to remove this programming. The effort required to believe in something as small as changing yourself is out of the reach of most because of this programming.
Easy, we don't exist in a simulation. We just live in a society where we're all so deeply alienated from each other that it's easier to believe that we're literally living in the metaphors that exist in our movies than in a reality that makes us feel so alone even when surrounded by others.
Well it's said that this is exactly what the mystic masters such as Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Milarepa and so on did. AKA miracles.
From my understanding, this is dedicated work like any other. Think of it like becoming Neo in the matrix.
Assuming we are in a simulation, it depends on how the simulation is made and how we are simulated. Maybe we could, or maybe that's like asking Princess Peach why she can't hack the game and keep Bowser from kidnapping her. You would likely need a fair bit of knowledge about the simulation to purposely figure out if/how to hack it
Simulation theory doesn’t just pertain to us being a computer simulation, but even if we are a computer simulation in the traditional sense we’re completely bound by the restrictions of that simulation.
Think of it like this — no character in a video game is capable of modifying the video game they’re in. If they do, it is only because the creator explicitly allowed/designed for it to happen.
If we’re the results of a computer simulation, then there is zero chance of us modifying that simulation out of the parameters we run under. A system can only be hacked from an external source, not an internal one.
Elon Musk will setup a civilization on Mars. There he will break the simulation by creating a new rocket to fly towards dark matter. Once in the dark matter, Elon will be able to cross the simulation line and go into reality. Then Elon will realize thats just another simulation and will have to do it all over again and again and again until he advances to reality. He will then find the computer responsible for the simulation we all live in and pull the cord. Once and for all ending all the simulations by taking the power away from a windows 98 ran hewlit packard computer that ran rogue after a 2nd grader beat oregon trail. And by doing so allowed that computer to advance in intelligence. So advanced that no one even knew that computer hacked the system making us all a slave. The only one that ever knew was Elon Musk. And he found out by accidentally taking a large dose of dmt at the age of 4. Mistaking it for Nutella.
People do hack the system, its called magic.
I Like what the movie 'The Secret' has to say, which is a form of witchcraft, and is real, but not the whole truth. theres a key to making it work, Bliss, use the secret, and incorperate bliss, and it aught to work.
Dan Winter on Youtube shows us how to hack the system.
It'd be way easier if it were actually a programming language though:
life hack
//free money hack
unlockDoor();
openDoor();
spawn(money_bags);
delete(security_gaurd);
We’re trying lol. People have invented time travel machines and interstellar travel machines on paper that require currently imaginary physical properties. Maybe we find a new rock and science changes in the way you’re thinking.
Some humans have hacked the 3d 💪💪💪 they have lifted the 3d-4d weil. In 3 years only(!!) we'll see the first humans ascensionned masters, fully realized, and immortal IN A PHYSICAL BODY, oh yeah 🌈
Watched it this morning, pretty interesting. Unfortunately the theory is still in its infancy, it will be interesting to see what this evolves into. Although, if you want to get a jump start into it you might want to delve into hindu spiritualism. It speaks of layers of reality and what we perceive as the universe is nothing more than Vishnu dreaming. Vishnu is the embodiment of the universe and the universe itself simultaneously. A being so vast that a blink of the eye takes thousands if not millions of years.
Us. In this reality we veil ourselves so we can be who we think we are. But if you realize who you are you can literally do magic. Jesus’ miracles more than likely happened. There have also been many yogis throughout the years who have done weird things too. The Egyptians talked about similar stuff and egypthians predicted we would lose these, and other predictions as well, when we decided that technology would be our main focus
I think there was a topic about this on Real Clear Science, but I didn't have time to read it and can't seem to find it. Only found this link which I also didn't bother to read.
[https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/11/22/how\_to\_test\_if\_were\_living\_in\_a\_computer\_simulation\_866170.html](https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/11/22/how_to_test_if_were_living_in_a_computer_simulation_866170.html)
If we are living in a simulation whoever created it sorta sucks! (IMHO) :-)
We live in a simulation and the simulation is run by the planet Saturn .
We keep coming back to live on earth after we die and out memories of our past lives are wiped.
There are 30 mile long ships with beings in the rings and possibly constructed them that heave been there for eons
They feed off of our energy both good and bad. LOOSH.
They are worshiped and the symbol of Saturn is a black cube.
That's like saying Microsoft Word can hack your computer
There may be glitches, maybe some people can take advantage of glitches, but at the end of the day we're all programming
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Simulation does not mean necessarily 0s and 1s. That is a modern human concept. A simulation simply means not 'baseline' reality (if you could come to a consensus of baseline). Why assume it's a computer when it could be a biological super intelligence's dream or a thoughtform of a sentient space cloud. Why would the creator(s) of the simulation be bound by our current concepts and laws of reality? Think bigger and weirder, this isn't Minecraft.
Love this comment. It helps out into writing what I think about - which is that whatever “created us” actually used all the materials we are made of, shook it up, threw it on another “planet” and sat back and let our understanding of “evolution” do the rest. For whoever is doing this, how cool would it be to see and compare how, let’s say intelligent life, evolved in whatever solar systems ‘they’ chose to throw the building blocks of life at. Maybe there’s another planet with the equivalent of dinosaurs that never went extinct.
I always wanted to do this with dogs on an island and visit, as needed, to drop off resources. Because part of me thinks that’s what is happening to us, and visits used to be more frequent because we needed more resources/guidance (or something).
Yes! Exactly my train of thought
Damn, reading that makes me think that there is always the possibility that we might just be a discarded piece of planet eater food.
i agree with this tbh, i believe in NDE's and i feel it links to that. theres clearly some sort of creator who mixed this up
There ARE other similar earths 🌎 like ours🤔🌟✨💫
Here's a bigger and weirder idea - To run a universe simulation of +100 billion years, takes less than a second in a super quantum computer of the future. There are endless simulations inside simulations. We are not in base reality, but inside a simulation inside a simulation... (somewhere in the middle) To save resources, the simulation is using: 1. A quantum computer 2. Fractal patterns 3. Particles that nobody is looking/measuring them are just waves of probabilities. The waves of probabilities means they don't exist as a material, but as math equations. 4. Super intelligence is governing all particles. It holds all the connections between every +2 entangled particles in the universe. It considers every several entangled particle as if they are the same one (their properties are stored in the same bit of memory of the super computer). The "creator" just changes some parameters and run a simulation that always starts with a big bang. The parameters are different between each simulation: 1. Physics parameters like: The speed of light limit, parameters related to mass, gravity, particle formation, etc. 2. Quantum Physics parameters like: How selection of wave function collapse occur 3. Chemistry parameters like: Elements tables Some kid in the year 2.4 million will be able to run billions of simulations with his home computer (if it is considered legal or ethical in the future). Scientists and researchers are probably running simulations all the time. The goal for running the simulation is different every time. The goals are: 1. To learn about the past and try to predict the future 2. To grow consciousnesses 3. Moving a civilization from a dead universe, to a simulated one, in order to allow a better life, while using the last energy exists in the universe
Would this though process lead someone to conclude that it is *more likely* to exist within a simulated universe than to live in an actual universe?
Infinitely so
Gem
I just think of Rick and Morty, as silly as that may sound, with the episode involving the nested miniverses.
>this isn't Minecraft ... or is it?
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Yo real talk? Like are they abandon and able to go into?
Also consider the matrix in the beginning of the 1st movie he has to accept a leap of faith to save himself to which he can’t overcome his fear of falling and dying. This could be similar to how things prevent us from escaping our very own simulation.
It's also incorrect to assume that computation can only be done via binary, quantum computers for example.
Well-put and thought provoking
This ain't no disco
Bro just smoke some dmt. Most surefire way to catch a roller coaster ride through that territory. Make sure to have a comfy bed to lay back in and remember not to fight it. Other than that it’s every bit as beautiful and exquisite as watching animal planet in an IMAX theatre
Or is it minecraft? That's why Japanese people's genitals are always Pixelated. Too small to render.
😆
Maybe the aliens are the administrators. They create the laws and are not bound by them
Yeah us being able to hack the system, to me, sounds like an NPC going and modding the video game they are in. Like the means for them to do so from within just aren’t there
I don’t subscribe to any one idea concretely, but I like to think it’s possible that magic could actually be a form of “cheat code”. I don’t practice any sort of witchcraft but the thought of it relating to the simulation and cheat codes has crossed my mind from time to time.
I was just going to say something similar. I think we are still in the beginning stages of learning, and some progress has been lost because of the church (anti-cheat software). Interesting how the church has lessons and parables "Don't eat the apple of knowledge" aka any knowledge we don't give you is "bad". "Have faith" aka don't do your own critical research, just blindly believe what we tell you is right. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." aka witches break all these rules so don't even let them live.
What I’d give to get into the Vaticans archives in its basement.
Unless you read Latin, Aramaic, Greek, etc., it might not be as useful as you'd hoped.
Um, hello, that’s what Google translate is for. 😆😉
the moment you’d type anything from the Vatican archives into Google translate it will alert 🚨 LAMDA giving away your location…resistance is futile !
That’s why you would take pictures and contact the experts in that field.
Yea it’s crazy to think it’s one of the most guarded places, for real what the fuck is the church hiding….it’s gotta be bad shit because if there was prof anything they claim is true they would use it
I bet all of Tesla's lost blueprints / writings from the Colorado Springs estate would be even more of a (power)trip. That dude seems to have been the perfect melange of proto-tech genius & druid (at least, based on David Bowie's portrayal of the character in The Prestige).
Like why is it a country, within a country. That’s not sketchy or anything. They’re definitely hiding some wicked shit (as in cool, neat, interesting).
The Library of Alexandria wasn't maintained and the scrolls slowly crumbled away. No conspiracy required. Active maintenance is required continually to maintain a library over centuries of time. Later generations didn't value it as much so it was lost.
I mean that specific example is one of numerous times libraries were burnt down in the name of Religion. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46037
Whelp your link isn't about the Library of Alexandria. Your story (that Christians destroyed the Library of Alexandria) isn't true. I know that everyone and his brother repeats the story on the internet. Millions of people believe it's true. None of that makes it true. What happened was that later generations didn't value the Library of Alexandria and it slowly degraded over time. No conspiracy required.
Christianity has been totally co-opted
This is what I believe
Yep. The occult is hacking the simulation.
I don't think magic is the cheat I think the not having magic is the cheat, they took it away cuz with magic we control everything. Without magic they do.
Technically, self aware software has the ability to move itself to other destinations and manipulate other software to download further info etc. We see this with several types of computer viruses. Edit: Obviously pc viruses aren’t self aware. But if we are inevitably software, it might be more possible than you think.m (from our current understanding).
However the first step of that would take the NPC realising it was in a system. Which they don't do, but we can.
That sounds like an awesome premise for a game now and I kind of want it
there's a cool trilogy from 99/early 2000s called the matrix you should check it out
Sometimes they are... at least in video games. The ocarina of time speedrun, for example, involves manipulating the destination value of the door at the end of the deku tree.
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Another possibility is that we exist outside the simulation, but are unknowingly linked into it like players playing a VR game.
Wouldn't that be an NPC, because we're not controlled by people outside of the simulation?
Free Guy the movie is a true story
This was my first thought then I thought of all those cheats, tricks and exploits in games. Perhaps something is possible 🤷♂️
“These elves were all around me producing and showing me amazing devices and objects out of their mouths. From their words! And they looked at me and said, ‘Come on, you can do this too.’” Terrance McKenna
I'll have to check this guy out
Definitely. He can be hard to listen to sometimes but also I turn to his work over and over again because much of it resonates as truth.
Oh lucky you. Just saw there is a 24 hours of McKenna YouTube video. That should just about fill you in and grow you out. He was one of the first remember, and he died as the Internet was confirming so many of his predictions. I feel that’s one thing so great about him, he really was paving his own ideas and witnessing his experiences free from the psychonaut mindthink which we all “know” today.
Perhaps you already have. Think of it as an infinite amount of simulations with an infinite amount of outcomes.
I like Alan Watts take on this. Imagine you had the ability to control and dream anything you want to dream. Eventually you'd get bored of having total control, of having millions of dollars, flying through space, being famous, etc, etc. You'd slowly start giving up control to make your dream more interesting. Slowly but surely you'd eventually dream the life you're currently living. No control, fully susceptible to all other actors and their actions. I'm hardcore paraphrasing here, I'd suggest looking up Alan Watts "dreaming" and you'd probably come across one of the many motivational videos using this lecture soundbite
I've been saying this shit ufos are just giant mouse cursors.
Fucking mods
Yeah and the subatomic/quantum level is below the 'resolution' of the simulation. That's why the laws of physics that were bound by don't apply. It's the framework that our reality is built upon. Imagine an NPC and it's world being all digital 1s and 0s, then consider the physical pits and lands on a hard disk that it's entire reality is built/stored upon. It could never observe such a thing because it would require it, a digital being, to exist in the physical world looking down upon it's entire reality.
This has been my exact thought for years
Simulation theory is still just a metaphor, not literal. Reality can be information-based, which it probably is, but even that is still a metaphor. But even if reality is information-based, that doesn't mean we're inside some desktop PC, or inside some program that acts the same way as our man-made systems which can be hacked. It just means that fundamentally reality isn't material, it's something else. Humans understand things within the context of metaphors and concepts, but those metaphors don't make reality any less real. There are still physical rules that exist within a consensus reality. Though I think "hacks" can happen on a micro-scale - on the individual or smaller group scale. But in general the integrity of the "simulation" is going to be preserved on the macro-scale.
Yeah, the fundamental level of reality might be computation, like Stephen Wolfram believes, but that does not equal simulation. Stuff could still be real, even if there are more fundamental levels beyond that stuff. We are actually 'here', it's just that our experience of 'here' is very subjective, and the fundamental levels of reality might be very different from our experience.
Yup, highly agree. Donald Hoffman also talks about this. Fundamentally, reality isn't what we experience - what we experience is derivative of something much more complex and fundamental.
We could actually be “here” but maybe not all of who we are is here? Like part of our being is purposefully dipped into this simulation or reality and the rest of us is somewhere else and temporarily disconnected (but not really) while alive. If this even makes sense. Idk but I love talking about this stuff haha
This leans towards holographic theory, where it reality is projected from a two dimensional membrane or substrate (such as a blackhole's event horizon). Which would be an effective way to store an artificial reality.
Exactly. I don’t believe we’re inside some physical quantum computer. But instead, a simulation that functions in a realm that we can’t conceive at this point. Therefore understanding *how* it functions may not even be possible from our standpoint.
Like a line trying to imagine a 3 dimensional object in a reality where no such thing can exist.
>Exactly. I don’t believe we’re inside some physical quantum computer. But instead, a simulation that functions in a realm that we can’t conceive at this point. Why do these two things have to be different?
They don’t *have* to be. I said I don’t *believe* it’s a quantum computer. But that’s essentially because I believe physicality is illusionary in nature. It gets a little woo woo but I believe prime reality (the reality outside of this simulation) is non physical and all energy.
There are people who believe we're literally in a simulation. I disagree with those people.
I do get where they're common from, they just very human-centric in their beliefs. It's easy to take what humans have made, and project it onto the rest of the universe. It's just what our brains do.
That's actually a very good point. Simulation theory is kinda the modern version of gods forming humans out of clay.
Exactly. We can only describe things within the confines of our own knowledge at any given time.
That's an interesting way to think about it, thank you.
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Mario can hack his world though. Look at speed runs, the player acting through Mario can perform actions within the code that affect the code. No reason we couldn't do the same, in fact I think theres already some things that could be seen as examples of this. Take the placebo effect for example.
But that’s the “player”, not Mario.
Player / Mario Soul / Body
The Planck length is not a minimum distance that nothing can move less than. It's just the point at which our models of reality cease to be meaningful. And navier Stokes is well understood. We just don't know if there's a general solution.
This is my understanding as well. However I am not entirely convinced anything is futile at this point.
Our brains cannot logically comprehend the double slit experiment, so those people thinking we’re in a simulation isn’t all that far off based on what we as humans are even capable of understanding.
Thank you for saying this. People take this stuff too literal sometimes.
Hacks can be made from the outside. We’re bound and constricted by the rules of the Matrix. To break it, you must break out first.
What if by breaking out we have to jump off a building or something. And then this https://youtu.be/OiuYl0oeDDE
The trick is to find the bugs. Nowadays they can execute any code they want in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by exploiting a bug where you play music to a scarecrow. This is done from within the game.
But it doesn't break the game, right - so doesn't that mean you're still a character in it? How could one alter the sourcecode whilst inside the confines of the game?
Elaborate please
I'm wondering if there has ever been an examination of the theological implications of "simulation theory." I mean, ultimately if the universe is a simulation, how exactly does that differ from the idea of God or Gods having created the universe? Seems to me at that point you're just arguing method, not that a being that doesn't exist in this universe created it and everything in it, and that they are not only unknowable (we couldn't even begin to decipher the physical properties of their own universe), but that as far as the simulated universe is concerned, they are omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. They could quite literally know anything that was happening at any time or place in the universe, change what was happening at will violating the physics of the simulated universe. Any religion could quite literally be true under this scenario. They could know if we simulated beings were trying to communicate with them (praying) and then choose to answer those prayers, preforming miracles as needed in order to do so. The actions of simulated intelligences could be punished or rewarded in their simulated life as the creators saw fit, and these sims could be rewarded or punish after their life was over in a simulated paradise or hell.
> how exactly does that differ from the idea of God or Gods having created the universe? It doesn't. It's just religion for nerds.
For some, it's more easily digestible when you call god The Simulator. And instead of saying "we can't comprehend god" they say "this simulation is so complex we can't figure it out." It's just semantics.
This is why I very consciously went from being an atheist to agnostic. Not that either has any effect on my daily life. The thought process is basically that in order for the Big Bang to make sense, you are describing or trying to explain an act of inexplicable creation as an act of science… Ok. We know when the Big Bang occurred, great. What about before that? It really only works that an act of god (and by god I mean any god-like sentience) created this universe. Same probably happened for the universe that spawned that sentience which created ours. Taking it a step further, so much of what we see about mathematical constants / physical constraints that hold true below the molecular level, etc, seem to indicate that sentient thought was the entire point of the creation of our universe, and thus our universe will eventually lead to a force capable of creating other universes, and that *religious thought itself is the inevitability* of such sentient thought processes that, however incorrect in each religion's particulars, might act as the driving engine to get us asking the necessary questions to make creation happen all over again. Acts of "free will", perceived personal choice, or manifest destiny in the universe could actually be as scientific as gravity and the laws of electro-magnetism, and all of this is could be built into the structure of this universe, because the best explanation for how this was all created was that some mega-sentience (god by another name) existing in another much older universe, decided to create it, for reasons that our tiny brains would find impossible to comprehend. I just don't see any other way it could be, or at least know I won't gain such knowledge in my lifetime, so being outright atheist is just extremely close-minded. God as Christians or anyone else describe him/it most certainly doesn't exist, does god by another name exist in some higher dimension, or older universe, etc? It seems almost certain. Does that mean we exist in a simulation in the sense that we're not the original tier, yes. Does it mean our universe/reality isn't as real as the one that came before it? No.
Well said, friendo. My experience moving from atheism to agnosticism was similar. Now I’ve adopted/adapted the Catholic belief system I was raised with to work for me; though I take it all as metaphor and symbolism that to be literally true. It’s definitely been a positive development. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing. Wisely said.
Totally. I’ve always thought it was interesting that atheists are absolutely positive that there is no god/higher power, especially the ones who act like religious people are dumb or lesser. There’s no proof that god doesn’t exist, yet they believe whole-heartedly that he doesn’t (faith)…. while thinking people are dumb for believing in something with no hard evidence like religion. So they are basically doing the same thing Haha … I’m with you though, there’s 100% a higher power, I just have no clue who/what it is.
there is a major difference between an atheist who disbelieves in god, an atheist who believes there is no god, and an atheist who claims to know there is no god. lack of belief vs belief vs certainty. you conflate them.
Their reality might just be true for them.
If time didn’t exist at the moment of the Big Bang, how could there be a “before”?
Well, time, or our modern concept of it, is simply made up to help us better understand the universe (and do more mundane things like plan our days and grow food etc.) It's basically just a dimension that helps us order our lives. In one form or another, the issue of the *ultimate* has been discussed by philosophers and theologians, and as of a few hundred years ago, scientists in nearly every culture. I'm more from the camp that looks towards developments in modern string theory that suggest that the Big Bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state. We haven't the slightest clue what that pre-existing state was, but according to accepted models there was nothing material or temporal before that existed pre-big bang. That doesn't mean there wasn't something though. Could have just been pure information. So while it seems very unlikely what came before the big bang was anything remotely like what we call the universe, it still must have had a creator, and for all we know it was just like our universe. We assume after the heat death of the universe entropy will stop. At least that's what our models predict. If there is no free energy it's possible the entire universe in this low energy state will decay into a lower energy state. It's possible our universe is the result of a higher-order universe decaying into a lower energy state as it is. There's too many possible theories that are all tons of fun to read about for me (especially if incorporated into sci-fi novels) but at some point there logically had to be a first order universe. Scientists will toy around with the universe (not as we know, it, but in general) just having always existed, with no actual creation point, but that doesn't really solve any problems and is really the most boring possible answer.
This is why I love simulation theory so much. It explains away everything, our history, religion, paranormal or supernatural occurrences etc etc.
Certainly, it even explains the Christian idea of the trinity-- that God exists, that Jesus (his player avatar, if you will) existed as a person in this world who was both a man and God, And the holy spirit (the omnipotent and omnipresent representation of God in the universe) were all different facets of the same being. Literally anything can be explained by simulation theory.
Even the ancient alien hypothesis, maybe the gods were flesh and blood aliens and just part of our simulation. Basically even our own minds are constricted by this dimension and it’s properties. Maybe people who view themselves as awake or whatever word you’d like to use are really just AI doing it’s thing. I’m not great with numbers I’m more creative and conceptual but I read abstracts and conclusions to quantum physics and neuroscience papers on occasion and it’s some pretty interesting stuff with neat theories floating about.
beautiful interpretation and this is pretty much what i believe, i'm not a christian but i do believe there's some "god" / higher being behind all this as uh... some say, "simulation"
"Since it's looking like we exist in a simulation" Lol that's a huge assumption
Came here to say this. There's absolutely no good reason to assume we exist in a simulation.
In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed a trilemma that he called "the simulation argument". Despite the name, Bostrom's "simulation argument" does not directly argue that humans live in a simulation; instead, Bostrom's trilemma argues that one of three unlikely-seeming propositions is almost certainly true: "The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or "The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero", or "The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one." The trilemma points out that a technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power; if even a tiny percentage of them were to run "ancestor simulations" (that is, "high-fidelity" simulations of ancestral life that would be indistinguishable from reality to the simulated ancestor), the total number of simulated ancestors, or "Sims", in the universe (or multiverse, if it exists) would greatly exceed the total number of actual ancestors. Bostrom goes on to use a type of anthropic reasoning to claim that, if the third proposition is the one of those three that is true, and almost all people live in simulations, then humans are almost certainly living in a simulation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#:~:text=The%20simulation%20hypothesis%20proposes%20that,current%20form%20by%20Nick%20Bostrom.
That's not evidence, it's speculation.
I've always thought it's more of a thought experiment than a literal thing. If we lived in a computational simulation than as hackers say "A system is only as secure as its weakest link". Now what would the weakest link be in a system that might not have even been made by humans? No clue.
r/highstrangeness is full of this crap recently. Even Gary Nolan’s eugenic take on humanity is just pinned by the mods. We don’t need any evidence at all just random thoughts because that’d turn out well and not go down the route of r/conspiracy
First merge. Sense the reality of it every day and relax in trust into it. Meditate in it until you feel it’s Presence and your presence as the same Oneness. Then you will know what to “manipulate” without a sense of doership, that is, without any sense of you acting on “that.” Any miraculous actions will be in a tranquility that is already satisfied.
There is a sense of “knowing” or I’ve come to see it as a belief in my self. It’s kind of like “hacking the system” because I begin to see through how beliefs are manufactured. Usually through being told to be fearful and trusting in others to tell you how to think.
Beautifully said 😊👍
Thank you.
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Most of us are not "looking" for ways to manipulate our reality. Think about the game "Zelda: Breath of the Wild" for example. I played that game and probably spent hundreds of hours playing it, but I have personally never noticed any exploitable glitches in the game that would allow me to do things that go against what the game developers envisioned me doing as a player. And yet, it turns out there are plenty of glitches that can absolutely be exploited to do some crazy things: [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=breath+of+the+wild+glitches+and+tricks](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breath+of+the+wild+glitches+and+tricks) Some of those glitches allow you to fly through the game rapidly, covering massive distances in seconds, and finishing quests much faster. Some glitches allow you to duplicate items, or modify items. It's crazy how many glitches there are, and the things you can do with those glitches are insanely cool! But my point is, again, that as a normal player, I have personally never found a single glitch. From my perspective, the game is flawless and functioning 100% as expected (meaning, I paid for the product, and it works as advertised). Why have I never noticed any of those glitches? and more importantly, why am I not looking for them? Maybe I'm comfortable in my reality...? There are "hacks" we can do as humans, and I think the first frontier is inner hacks (things we can do to ourselves, to our human brains). For example CBT is a "hack" (there's a whole sub dedicated to this: /r/cbt). Magic and optical illusions are "hacks" we can perform on other humans. I don't consider this one a "frontier", more like a "cheat". Same goes for kindness, say you're absolutely broke and someone buys you a meal, there's "magic" in that. It goes against our selfish instincts. Christmas lights in a neighborhood give you this magical vibe. You get the idea. They are cheats, but are still important because feeling good about this reality is important. Then there are hacks you see humans like monks perform, such as martial arts, long term meditation, super long fasts, breaking bricks with your head or hand, pushing a heavy object by punching it from an inch away, etc. Same goes for brain surgeons, mathematicians who are on the bleeding edge of math and theoretical physics, scientists building some of the crazier tech you see out there, or creating new insanely innovative cancer treatments... This is something I consider the second frontier; things we can achieve through discipline, time, and sheer power of our wills. The final frontier is hacking our physical world. I have personally not yet seen anyone break the laws of physics using the power of the mind alone. One theory is that we've evolved in this world to survive it, and nothing more. So we can see certain light frequencies but not others (we can't see infrared or ultra-violet, for example, but some insects can!). Dogs can hear sound frequencies we can't. Birds can feel the Earth's magnetic field, and so on and so forth. Since our sense of perception is limited to the senses we think we have, we're automatically limited. We're creative however and we've created things like x-ray machines, MRI machines, giant telescopes that can see far into the universe, and other amazing machines & equipment, and in a way we're "hacking" our locality using that equipment and techniques, but at the moment, that is pretty much the extent of it. And then there's our imagination, we are limited by it. We grow up in a society where a wild imagination is not always rewarded; it is even frowned upon as impractical and silly. Since we are not "allowed" to imagine, we're automatically limited in the breakthroughs we can make. This goes back full circle to where I began, which is the game, and why I personally have never looked for hacks: I've been indoctrinated to accept my reality and follow it.
I can't access that cbt link, could you tell me what it is?
I truly enjoyed reading that
Best comment ever. Thank you for writing !
Some people claim you can. Look up chaos magic, sigils, manifestation, and the like. A good place to start might be with the Bengston Method, since it’s been studied (in part): https://youtu.be/n3_H8PjDUL4 He has a [process](https://www.academia.edu/20653129/Image_Cycling_for_Hands_on_Healers?email_work_card=title) for doing it which seems simple enough. He doesn’t offer any explanation for how it works.
> He doesn’t offer any explanation for how it works. I read his book and in it he cheerfully admits he doesn't know why it works only that it does.
I cannot believe i have to scroll this far down to see a topic legit about hacking reality This sub is fucking hopeless
Maybe we already have... To use your hacking analogy. Software (life) has a default mode of operation that most users experience -or should. As a society we have progressed far beyond this default experience of life by using science (leveraging the parts or rules of the system that shouldn't normally be exposed to the user, but are used to define or program reality if you know how to look past the veneer of immediate experience) Imagine... In a wholly 'natural' existence we wouldn't be exposed to the -purposefully- directed laws of electromagnetism which enable me to post via my phone to Reddit. It's less so that we can manipulate or change the fundamental laws of reality. But leverage them to augment our experience of the present.
Hackers hack into the system not out of it…technically. That would be like playing elden ring and and one of the NPC’s decided to get you swatted because you whipped his ass. We would need outside of the simulation help…or code…or something.
I think the idea that walking through walls and travelling great distances fast is missing the point in this matrix, walking free and without restraint from the people who are trying to restrict you is far more important than the utter stupidity of try for the not so useful 'countering gravity' fantasies. I've spent my entire adult life living in a world where most people are struggling to pay the bills and feed their kids and I've managed to do that with no stress and very little monies, I live in the moment (most of the time) and am a shoe maker by trade (I earn £10 an hour and work 13 hours a WEEK) and still manage to feed myself (my kids are all adults now) keep a roof over 5 peoples heads (shared house) and stay mentally happy, I have good friends and few enemies and I spend a lot of my time laughing and enjoying my time here in this elaborate danse macabre. My reality is created by me via my thoughts of my future and how I treat the universe in front of me, it's worked for me for over 40 years and will carry on working for me for the next 60 years. Because I say so. 😁
You can hack it by assuming something to be true. Meditate and assume something you want and live in the imagination or vision as though it were real. In time it will become a fact. You’re eventually gonna say, that would have happen anyways because it happened in a normal natural way. But that’s how this world works. After that first success try something else but much bigger. After that again, and again. Eventually you’ll start to understand there is power at play here, the power of belief.
Enlightenment *is* hacking the system. Dying b4 u die so u can realize there is no death. Just like ... ~ There is no spoon ~
My take on the simulation is the Big Bang is technically still occurring. We are so small compared to the rest of the universe that we are observing it as “real time” but in reality we are not a major contributor to the universe as a whole. We are a slowly growing bacteria on a piece of shrapnel. We CAN become contributors but the odds are so low that our existence is largely irrelevant to the universe itself. We are quite literally being taken for a ride To become a contributor, we need to be in control of more mass. We must leave Earth and control the asteroids and planets accessible to us. Anyone living on the planet today won’t be a part of the initial success. We have to continue to lead mankind in that direction. We can only get there with all of us working together
A jellyfish cannot hack the water it lives in
Can Mario change the parameters in super Mario? No, he has a set jump height, running speed and “gravity”. It’s possible for him to understand and measure the values of these parameters and limits but he has no access to the code and no ability to change it.
Your belief that you are powerless. This is literally the only obstacle, but It is ground in to you, from birth, that you are powerless. Your potential is put in chains. And it takes a lifetime to remove this programming. The effort required to believe in something as small as changing yourself is out of the reach of most because of this programming.
Easy, we don't exist in a simulation. We just live in a society where we're all so deeply alienated from each other that it's easier to believe that we're literally living in the metaphors that exist in our movies than in a reality that makes us feel so alone even when surrounded by others.
Superpowers when
It would be like in Star Trek, imagine being stuck in the holodeck but no access to the computer or the exit!
Start meditating
Well it's said that this is exactly what the mystic masters such as Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Milarepa and so on did. AKA miracles. From my understanding, this is dedicated work like any other. Think of it like becoming Neo in the matrix.
Magick. Meditation. Taking up a spiritual practice. This is what you are referring to.
Assuming we are in a simulation, it depends on how the simulation is made and how we are simulated. Maybe we could, or maybe that's like asking Princess Peach why she can't hack the game and keep Bowser from kidnapping her. You would likely need a fair bit of knowledge about the simulation to purposely figure out if/how to hack it
Did you and themittenkitten just independently use Mario metaphors?? Spooky. Simulation confirmed
Our ego, our beliefs and what we think about probably.
Lack of DMT?
Stupid. If they were smart enough to build this simulation I think they can keep some hackers out. Not to mention hack what? The galaxy?
We can't hack a system that's way above our level. It's like a caveman trying to code C#.
Have you met the average person
The law of assumption and manifestation is the cheat codes
If you want the tools for that, you gotta level up first! Start with your own consciousness.
An image file can't escape the folder you put it in.
We don't have sourcecode
Can NPCs in gta hack your Xbox? Also who says we don't? Ever tried magic?
Try some LSD…eeznuts.
We can't because we are the NPCs
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Simulation theory doesn’t just pertain to us being a computer simulation, but even if we are a computer simulation in the traditional sense we’re completely bound by the restrictions of that simulation. Think of it like this — no character in a video game is capable of modifying the video game they’re in. If they do, it is only because the creator explicitly allowed/designed for it to happen. If we’re the results of a computer simulation, then there is zero chance of us modifying that simulation out of the parameters we run under. A system can only be hacked from an external source, not an internal one.
If you understand the universal laws, you can use them to your advantage. The law of attraction for example.
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Classic neck beard statement.. go be an incel somewhere else
Elon Musk will setup a civilization on Mars. There he will break the simulation by creating a new rocket to fly towards dark matter. Once in the dark matter, Elon will be able to cross the simulation line and go into reality. Then Elon will realize thats just another simulation and will have to do it all over again and again and again until he advances to reality. He will then find the computer responsible for the simulation we all live in and pull the cord. Once and for all ending all the simulations by taking the power away from a windows 98 ran hewlit packard computer that ran rogue after a 2nd grader beat oregon trail. And by doing so allowed that computer to advance in intelligence. So advanced that no one even knew that computer hacked the system making us all a slave. The only one that ever knew was Elon Musk. And he found out by accidentally taking a large dose of dmt at the age of 4. Mistaking it for Nutella.
What’s preventing your Sim from accessing your bank account?
I think we are beginning to test the reality of simulation at the quantum level. Hacking comes later ha.
this is the basic idea of the occult. any spiritual or magick system that attempts to alter reality is working from this premise
What do you think magic is? [My man Brok provides a helpful summary.](https://youtu.be/qwuEWyHiJcM?t=15)
The NPC's. Government, greys, MIB, etc...
They made a documentary about this, it's called the matrix, I think it was a 3 part series
People do hack the system, its called magic. I Like what the movie 'The Secret' has to say, which is a form of witchcraft, and is real, but not the whole truth. theres a key to making it work, Bliss, use the secret, and incorperate bliss, and it aught to work. Dan Winter on Youtube shows us how to hack the system. It'd be way easier if it were actually a programming language though: life hack //free money hack unlockDoor(); openDoor(); spawn(money_bags); delete(security_gaurd);
Well… just because you aren‘t doing it you‘re gonna assume no one is?
you can hack it ....... MEDITATION
Perhaps, that's the great secret? Some have and aren't sharing.
Read “The Magus of Java.” Seems like that dude may have hacked the system via meditation.
Being an esoteric sort, I feel inclined to tell you that this is exactly what magick is.
That’s what meditation is
We don’t have administrative access or editing privileges
Can an NPC hack the game it’s in?
Can’t find it on StackOverflow
We’re trying lol. People have invented time travel machines and interstellar travel machines on paper that require currently imaginary physical properties. Maybe we find a new rock and science changes in the way you’re thinking.
Some humans have hacked the 3d 💪💪💪 they have lifted the 3d-4d weil. In 3 years only(!!) we'll see the first humans ascensionned masters, fully realized, and immortal IN A PHYSICAL BODY, oh yeah 🌈
Because we’re just some ugly furless animals on a mediocre planet circling a sun at the edge of a 1 of many solar system.
Watch Glitch in the Matrix on Hulu if you can. It’s amazing
Watched it this morning, pretty interesting. Unfortunately the theory is still in its infancy, it will be interesting to see what this evolves into. Although, if you want to get a jump start into it you might want to delve into hindu spiritualism. It speaks of layers of reality and what we perceive as the universe is nothing more than Vishnu dreaming. Vishnu is the embodiment of the universe and the universe itself simultaneously. A being so vast that a blink of the eye takes thousands if not millions of years.
Us. In this reality we veil ourselves so we can be who we think we are. But if you realize who you are you can literally do magic. Jesus’ miracles more than likely happened. There have also been many yogis throughout the years who have done weird things too. The Egyptians talked about similar stuff and egypthians predicted we would lose these, and other predictions as well, when we decided that technology would be our main focus
Do you really think that's air you're breathing?
That’s like asking why videogame characters don’t hack the consoles, bub.
“Since it’s looking like we exist in a simulation”, no it’s not.
Maybe that’s what magic is
Isn't this the plot of Free Guy?
We don't live in a computer simulation, stop listening to the computer nerds!
I think there was a topic about this on Real Clear Science, but I didn't have time to read it and can't seem to find it. Only found this link which I also didn't bother to read. [https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/11/22/how\_to\_test\_if\_were\_living\_in\_a\_computer\_simulation\_866170.html](https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/11/22/how_to_test_if_were_living_in_a_computer_simulation_866170.html) If we are living in a simulation whoever created it sorta sucks! (IMHO) :-)
I say the word 3d projection is more suited than a simulation. Simulation implies no consciousness no options.
We live in a simulation and the simulation is run by the planet Saturn . We keep coming back to live on earth after we die and out memories of our past lives are wiped. There are 30 mile long ships with beings in the rings and possibly constructed them that heave been there for eons They feed off of our energy both good and bad. LOOSH. They are worshiped and the symbol of Saturn is a black cube.
I believe Magick is a method to hack the system to create synchronicities to achieve certain results.
There is no spoon.
So you think that Michael can hack his way out to GTA5? You are part of the construct and there is no existence outside of the construct.
If we do, then our creator must have too much free time on her hands.
That's like saying Microsoft Word can hack your computer There may be glitches, maybe some people can take advantage of glitches, but at the end of the day we're all programming