Oxford Professor says we live in a computer.

[zenile]

I think therefore I am

 

[Spider-Bite]

I think the fact that we have not all been deleted from the "simulation" for reading the suggestion we may be in one is proof that we aren't.

Not necessarilly. Think about it. This simulation might run for a million in years in a second for them. Just like our weather simulations do a whole century in 10 minutes. And considering there are 7 billion humans in this maybe earth, maybe simulation, it could be difficult to keep track of what every human is thinking in that method.

Or maybe they just don't care if we think of this.

this could be to study our social evolution or even our physical evolution. Who knows.

I'd like to think this isn't a simulation, but that oxford professor brings up an interesting argument.

I've started to realize though it doesn't even matter if it is a simulation. It actually makes our world no less real. Either way. Were still just neutrons and electrons and protons. Who decides when it stops being a simulation and becomes real? Whether god made it, or the big bang made it, and were just a wrinkle in space time, another time line, oir what. Who's gonna know the difference? Does it make another person's suffering or happiness any less real?

 

[Noir]

This same Oxford professor was later quoted saying: "Cocaine is a helluva a drug."

 

[Superman4ever]

This **** is SO ****ing stupid. A computer simulation = psycho babble.

Am I in denial?

 

[deathshead2]

So this is just a giant computer game. Like Halo. Except with more teabagging?

 

[Noir]

I teabag people everyday. at the bus stop, at the mall, at funerals.

 

[deathshead2]

I teabag people everyday. at the bus stop, at the mall, at funerals.

Like I said our life has more teabaggins.

 

[deathshead2]

Sweet were like reboot. I forgot about reboot.

 

[Noir]

Like I said our life has more teabaggins.

ten-fold as many tea-bags!

 

[The Dude]

This **** is SO ****ing stupid. A computer simulation = psycho babble.

Am I in denial?

Deny everything. If you know to much, the powers that be will take you to the Recycle bin, and then delete it all.

 

[deathshead2]

I hope our user isn't fat.

 

[The Dude]

I hope our user isn't fat.

Most likely he is. He probably eats cheetos and plays World of Warcraft 24/7.

 

[Addendum]

I think therefore I am

But if this Oxford Professor's theory is true, it should be "A guy clicks a mouse, therefore I am"

 

[DV8]

Not necessarilly. Think about it. This simulation might run for a million in years in a second for them. Just like our weather simulations do a whole century in 10 minutes. And considering there are 7 billion humans in this maybe earth, maybe simulation, it could be difficult to keep track of what every human is thinking in that method.

Or maybe they just don't care if we think of this.

this could be to study our social evolution or even our physical evolution. Who knows.

I'd like to think this isn't a simulation, but that oxford professor brings up an interesting argument.

I've started to realize though it doesn't even matter if it is a simulation. It actually makes our world no less real. Either way. Were still just neutrons and electrons and protons. Who decides when it stops being a simulation and becomes real? Whether god made it, or the big bang made it, and were just a wrinkle in space time, another time line, oir what. Who's gonna know the difference? Does it make another person's suffering or happiness any less real?

I agree . . . I really just kind of wrote this theory off after I'd seen this thread, but more and more I've been thinking about the scenario, and it's really got my wheels turning . . . it's a extremely thought-provoking concept.

When you think of the way cells and atoms operate, and how they have a purpose in biology and chemistry; well who's to say that they don't posess some kind of conscsiouness? everything is interconnected; the atoms make cells; cells make organisms; worlds make solar systems; solar sytems make galaxies, and onward . . .

a cell would have absolutely no contrsuct of why it is what it is; imagine that one person is like the cell of some great entity that comprises the universe, and maybe even onward . . . think then if our own universe is but an atom to something even GREATER!

jeez . . . that could make your head explode; and that's why it almost doesn't matter that if we were in some kind of simulation, it wouldn't matter what we know, or what we think we're onto in regards to understanding . . . whatever is pulling the evolutionary strings or what have you, is so advanced that we could never even begin to comprehend it . . . we just get glimpses here and there . . . just enough to understand that basic relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm . . .

 

[Kritish]

I didn't know professors were allowed to smoke crack.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Like I said our life has more teabaggins.

Is he related to Bilbo Baggins?

 

[Argyle of Sock]

I've actually thought about this exact thing before and it disturbed me just as much then as it does now. I don't think it's a likely scenerio, but it's possible. I try and take comfort in Descartes cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am), which was his rebuttal to the theory that we're all just brains in jars. If we're thinking about it and it is true, we should be able to fully realize it (sort of like when you realize you're dreaming and you wake up).

I'm still kind of freaked out though.

 

[Harlekin]

Meh. Had the same thought at twelve. Quickly discarded it. We are what we are and we live where we live. Who gives a **** if we're just toys stuck in a toybox?

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Meh. Had the same thought at twelve. Quickly discarded it. We are what we are and we live where we live. Who gives a **** if we're just toys stuck in a toybox?

I just hope the BBMFICs know how to take care of their toys. I don't want to be chewed up by some future dog or something.

 

[Kritish]

If it's true tell that fat ass I want a Porsche and Monica Bellucci!

 

[Spider-Girl™]

Most likely he is. He probably eats cheetos and plays World of Warcraft 24/7.

Bagging on the User! *click click* account deleted. lol.

 

[Kritish]

Bagging on the User! *click click* account deleted. lol.

That would explain all the missing persons.

 

[Spider-Girl™]

Lol

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Moral of the story? Don't play the Sims while listening to the Matrix soundtrack after smoking a joint.

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Moral of the story? Don't play the Sims while listening to the Matrix soundtrack after smoking a joint.

Replace the joint with a some hits of acid or a few of shrooms and you could be on to something.