r/DeepThoughts

You are not experiencing reality. You are the screen In a simulation, your senses are not biological tools that register a physical environment. They are lines of code that are translated into an experience. When you touch a table, the table is not made of atoms, and your fingers are not made of flesh. What happens is that the program's physics engine sends a data signal to the "software" of your consciousness that says: Stop here, simulate the feeling of wood. So you never experience the actual reality. You only experience the graphical representation of it, just like a character in a video game.
Reality experiences you. If everything around us is software, that means that consciousness is not something unique that arose inside your biological brain. Instead, consciousness is an integral part of the system itself. That means that the gigantic program “reality” has created billions of small windows (you, me, everyone else) in order to observe and experience itself from different angles.

You are not a separate being who has wandered into the universe. You are the universe that has created a software profile that calls itself “human”, in order to feel what it feels like to exist. In short: Instead of being a guest in a material world, you are a sensor in a gigantic living program. Reality uses your brain to experience what its own code tastes, feels, and looks like.

Kind of weird. Could be the reality of it all. But then again, so could everything else be too, at the same time, right now

r/DeepThoughts

You often can't save people from themselves. By trying, you often become their villain.

I think being seen is one of the quietest forms of love.

When we think about consciousness, we always assume that it is us (the self) sitting inside our heads looking out at an external world. But if the universe is digital (mathematical), that whole concept is thrown overboard in two ways