A fun question that spawned from my how would you know you were in a simulation or not.
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This post presumes we decide we ARE in a simulation. See the lead in post before this one:
If reality were only a simulation how would WE the simulants be able to know for sure?
So from that post let's pretend the answer was...
Yes we are in a simulation
In out simulations that we make we often observe them from above and watch computerized worlds and people run around. Other times we inhabit a character and look out through their eyes.
The other characters, the world, and everything are built around us.
In our simulation who is the observer?
This post is going to be rather short. It is mostly a post on what I hope are thought provoking questions spawned by the other topic.
- Is someone observing us and we are all simulants?
- Am I the observer and all of you are simply NPCs?
- Is the observer hopping around through each of us like we are vehicles, and each of us may hold pieces of the observer?
- Should we presume the observer has the same limited senses we do?
- Perhaps we are the singularity and we are a simulation created to house the minds of multiple observers... (EDIT: This would indicate interesting things for those that believe in reincarnation)
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BOOOM..... there went my head.
Think on that for awhile.