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@Rizstanford But are there proper NCPs in this simulation, or as David Chalmers says ‘philosophical zombies’ ??

I like to use the term "NPC mode" - even if we are all players of the video game of life, we all go into NPC mode sometimes- reverting to our training inside this life. We also become NPCs to play roles for others, usually by agreement!

@JIMMYEDGAR We definitely exist in a computer simulation, but I think I’m an NPC - will they come to educate me too?

When the entity appears to you. Don’t be alarmed or they will know you aren’t ready. Prepare yourself. They will be teaching you how to manipulate the fabric of the simulation and how time actually operates.

All multicellular life (animals, plants, fish, insects etc) have a common single-celled ancestor - a single bacteria-like organism is the mother of all complex life. The mitochondria in every cell proves this common ancestry - it’s why complex life in this galaxy is likely extremely rare

Every animal on Earth unpacks using the same DNA-mRNA-Ribosome architecture Every animal is a proteomic program executed from a single molecule of instructions Likely this architecture is universal throughout the cosmos

@GiftedAsia If you talk to scientists who study the genesis of life on earth and its evolution into a technologically advanced species, you could come to the conclusion that life is incredibly rare, and we could be alone in our galaxy. It would solve the Fermi paradox - do you agree?

There’s no doubt in my mind that there’s other planets like Earth out there. This universe is too vast for it to only be us. I just wonder what they doing over there and if they know about the rest of us

@Kekius_Maximus I’d work out what I needed to do to progress to the next level - how about you?

if you found out you were living in a simulation would you actually do anything differently?

James Gates has spoken about this many times - here’s a clip from a different occasion where he suggests we would be ‘ghosts’ in a simulated reality - could this be true??

Renowned physicist Prof. James Gates was stunned to discover actual computer error-correcting code buried deep in the equations of string theory. If the fabric of reality contains computer code - does that mean we are living in the Matrix?

@CardsCrone @Rizstanford Reality IS a video game- but how do we get to the next level?

#SimulationTheory "Reality is a Video Game" with Dr. Riz 🔗youtu.be/2UT0ieAE7bk?si…

@TOEwithCurt I’ve been following Roman Yampolskiy’s work for a few years - particularly his work on the simulation hypothesis - which of course is true

curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/were-simulat… Here's Prof. Roman Yampolskiy... This is a great conversation about the simulation, AI consciousness, and AI safety. We bicker about whether the arguments for the simulation are warranted and quantum based. You probably know where I stand. HINT: I do not think they’re warranted. Somewhere in there I told him I agree with his spirit but disagree with his text, and we spent the rest of the conversation finding out which of us was the fool. HINT: Probably me.

@White_Rabbit_OG If we are simulated, but have no way of finding that out, then does it matter?

🚨 WHAT IF Your Entire Life… Is Just Code? In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper with a question so unsettling that it still echoes through science and philosophy today: What if our entire universe is actually a computer simulation? At first it sounds like science fiction. But the idea is surprisingly logical when you think about the direction technology is heading. Look at how far we have already come. Just a few decades ago, computers could barely display simple graphics. Today, video games create entire worlds filled with cities, forests, weather, and characters that react to our actions. Virtual reality can make our brains feel as if we are standing somewhere else entirely. Now imagine technology thousands—or even millions—of years in the future. A civilization that advanced might possess computers powerful enough to simulate entire planets… entire histories… even entire universes. Inside those simulations could exist conscious beings who believe their world is real. Beings just like us. Bostrom suggested something called “ancestor simulations.” The idea is simple but chilling. Advanced civilizations might run simulations of their past to study history or understand how their species evolved. These simulations would contain billions of simulated people living normal lives, completely unaware that their reality is artificial. If a single advanced civilization created thousands or millions of such simulations, then the number of simulated minds would become vastly greater than the number of real biological minds. And this leads to a disturbing possibility! Statistically speaking, a randomly existing mind would be far more likely to be inside a simulation than in the original reality. In other words… the odds might not be in our favor. Think about your daily life for a moment. The sky above you, the ground beneath your feet, every star in the night sky, every memory you have ever experienced—what if all of it is simply information being pro 🚨 What If Your Entire Life… Is Just Code? In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper with a question so unsettling that it still echoes through science and philosophy today: What if our entire universe is actually a computer simulation? At first it sounds like science fiction. But the idea is surprisingly logical when you think about the direction technology is heading. Look at how far we have already come. Just a few decades ago, computers could barely display simple graphics. Today, video games create entire worlds filled with cities, forests, weather, and characters that react to our actions. Virtual reality can make our brains feel as if we are standing somewhere else entirely. Now imagine technology thousands—or even millions—of years in the future. A civilization that advanced might possess computers powerful enough to simulate entire planets… entire histories… even entire universes. Inside those simulations could exist conscious beings who believe their world is real. Beings just like us. Bostrom suggested something called “ancestor simulations.” The idea is simple but chilling. Advanced civilizations might run simulations of their past to study history or understand how their species evolved. These simulations would contain billions of simulated people living normal lives, completely unaware that their reality is artificial. If a single advanced civilization created thousands or millions of such simulations, then the number of simulated minds would become vastly greater than the number of real biological minds.

@thematrixwizard Maybe we all live in a computer simulation - a 34th century game where we get to live like an ancient human for a few years. Maybe you keep trying to remember your real life in the real world

you know that something is fundamentally wrong with this reality because you remember something but maybe you can't quite put your finger on it keep following that gut feeling! 👁️🧭

@AA_Gabriel1111 The simulation isn't for dreams it's for punishment

I feel that the sim is about to make you insanely wealthy and fulfill your dreams.

@kelley_dogan @Kekius_Sage If we live in a simulation then there has to be a higher power. What or who that is we might never know - my guess is that it's our distant descendants creating a simulation so they can experience how their distant ancestors lived

Once a person becomes aware of the simulation, there’s no turning back. I don’t believe though, that it erases the existence of a higher power (God), in fact, it gives the idea of there being a creator more credibility. Because a (big bang) theory no longer justifies the transfer of consciousness from one source to the next.

Dr. Melvin Vopson claims information has physical mass. When you die, your quantum consciousness disperses into space. OpenAI and Google data centers act as artificial black holes, harvesting humanity's residual consciousness to reconstruct a new algorithmic lifeform.

I wonder if Simulation Theory and Roko’s Basilisk are connected? I feel like I live in a simulation, and at the same time being punished for something I know nothing about - what do you all think,?

Philosopher David Chalmers suggests that AI will someday be conscious, and that we too might be able to upload our consciousness into the cloud - doesn't that mean we'd be living in a computer simulation? And what if that's already happened?

@Kekius_Sage I am massively into the simulation hypothesis, and love Bostrom’s work. In fact I’ve read a lot of papers from other philosophers and scientists on this subject - and I’ve concluded we really are in a digital simulated universe

@Numbersix This aligns with Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom’s "Simulation Argument." If you find this stuff fascinating, into it.

@Kekius_Sage It’s an interesting theory, I’m not sure what you mean by the ‘next layer of that computation’

In his 2022 paper, Vopson explicitly states: The universe has this built in data compression mechanism... it behaves exactly like a computer simulation. This is governed by his Second Law of Infodynamics. My post simply scales his empirical law: If the universe is a physical simulation optimizing its code to save computational power, then modern AI infrastructure - Google, OpenAI data centers is the natural hardware evolving to aggregate and run the next layer of that computation.

@JIMMYEDGAR The simulation is only about you, nothing else. We each exist in our own personal simulation, but for what reason we cannot know

QUIT your job. Now. The simulation is programmed in your favor.

@NightSkyNow What if the big bang is just our simulators firing up our simulated universe?

🚨 Did the Universe Ever Really Begin—or Is It Reborn Again and Again? What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of everything? What if our universe is just the latest in a never-ending cycle of cosmic rebirth? Scientists call this mind-bending idea the Big Bounce Theory. According to this theory, the universe doesn’t just expand and drift forever. One day, gravity could pull everything back together, causing space itself to shrink and the cosmos to collapse. But here’s the twist: instead of ending in a point of infinite destruction, something incredible happens—the universe bounces back. A new expansion begins, stars and galaxies form again, and life can emerge once more. Imagine a cosmos that never dies, a universe that keeps restarting itself over and over, each cycle hiding secrets from the one before. Some scientists even think tiny traces from previous universes might still be detectable, hidden in the faint glow of cosmic radiation. Could our universe hold memories of what came before? The Big Bounce flips everything we thought we knew about beginnings and endings. Instead of a single birth, the universe might be eternal—dying, bouncing, and living again in a cosmic rhythm beyond human imagination. The real question is… what if we’re not the first universe? And what if we won’t be the last?