Are we really here?

[classic33]

Or are we "living" in a nothing more than a computer simulation!
Possibly run as an experiment, run by persons unknown for reasons unknown. Possibly run by a supercomputer.
Various hints have been given in more recent times as we "have caught up", tecnologywise, to possibly understand what we really are. Hints such as computer games, specifically those games that allow us to build our own computer based empire.
Simpler versions of these games let you start the ball rolling, and then see how things work out.
The games prepare us to confront a "reality" where it is shown to us what "life" really is. Some are rumoured to have doorways that will lead those who find them to the truth.
Has anyone found one of these doorways yet? What would they do if they did? Is the secret worth keeping?

 

[Doseone]

You've been reading Red Dwarf haven't you

 

[Radchenister]

More likely been on the Red Stripe and associated smokes .

 

[classic33]

No to both of those.
And it is at present being investeigated by a team at University of Bonn. The latest to do so.

 

[just jim]

You might like "Ready Player One"!
I'm enjoying it anyway. Even though my 1980's experience wasn't that great, I'm identifying with a lot of the story elements.

 

[Radchenister]

No to both of those.
And it is at present being investeigated by a team at University of Bonn. The latest to do so.

Wish them well with their investimigations - when they have learned the path they will find me .

 

[classic33]

You've been reading Red Dwarf haven't you

Was that just another hint/clue?
After all "There's many a true word said in jest".

Wish them well with their investimigations - when they have learned the path they will find me .

Explain Plato investigating the same theory, that we were placed here as some sort of experiment.

 

[TVC]

Whatever the story is, it's certainly not down to a beardy guy kicking the whole thing off in a week, six thousand years ago.

 

[vernon]

Nope. Some of us are there.

 

[cyberknight]

42!

 

[tomahawk]

How do we know that we weren't all created 10 seconds ago and given a memory?

 

[cyberknight]

 

[outlash]

You take the red pill, you take the blue pill...

It's fairly simple, everything is a heap of vibrating atoms at various speeds to a coherent universe (or multiverse). Can I claim the research money please?


Tony.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

This could be 'Old Earth' and we could be Cybrids.

 

[mchunt]

If we are just part of someones Sim City game then I think the player has fell asleep at this moment in time, he needs to wake up and fix the bl**dy pot holes and sort the climate out. What were they thinking only giving us bikes a couple of hundred years ago?

Personally i sometimes think about this but then think does it matter? I'm quite happy here living in this real work (or simulation) - maybe I will be more respectful when playing Sim City just in case life is a sim and the sim owner is watching - don't want to give them ideas! Godzilla attack anyone?