What if Elon Musk is right? What if we are all living in a simulation?

[4everHeartBroken]

What if reality is just an illusion? Then what happens to us after suicide? Your thoughts?

 

[Joker2003]

I guess it depends on what kind of simulation we're living in.

If we're living in a Matrix like simulation then that means we have a physical body and have the chance to escape from it.
There is also the chance that we're all simply computer code, so our code/data is just erased from the mainframe when we die.
If we are living in a simulation then there are millions of different scenarios and possibilities.

Elon Musk is very smart but also says a lot of dumb things. I personally don't think we're living in a simulation.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I still believe that after death is just an eternal blissful non existence

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

There's no reproducible experimental evidence for any simulation, after life nothing except for evolution. There is mountains of evidence for evolution.

There is nothing after Death, Only non-existence forever. All of us didn't exist for 13.8 billion years before we were born . It will be like that again after death non-existence forever.

I don't get it why humans think that a brain that can suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain is something good , a beautiful gift , something important enough to simulate. What that is to me is an extreme horror an unfathomable abomination a nightmare beyond imagination

Imo all every human is that first DNA chemical reaction, that first cell but only with the added extreme abomination of a brain that can suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain for no reason...

There is not a single piece of evidence for any simulation, afterlife , god , reincarnation, magic, nothing only massive mountains of evidence for evolution that show what a human is

Every detail billions of details of science ,tech, knowledge all futher cross confirm evolution is true . For example every page of a molecular cell biology textbook or of a brain science book etc

 

[hibikikyuxx]

What if reality is just an illusion?

Then nothing matters. Which is already the case.

Then what happens to us after suicide?

Nobody knows.

There is nothing after Death, Only non-existence forever.

Non-existence is impossible.

 

[CTBKnight]

Prolly not, but it would be really funny if we were. Either way, it leads to non-existence and eternal sleep with no way of figuring anything out but it's worth the thought.

 

[onbekend]

There is a far more likely chance that we are just imagining life as we see it as a brain floating in an endless void of space, so the way I see it, when we die we imagine more scenarios in which we live. In other words, Nothing happens after you die because nothing has ever happened. We're just imagining another universe in which life has been created.

 

[Doemu]

If we live in a simulation, I will suicide after my suicide.

 

[thewalkingdread]

Elon Musk is not smart.

He is just a con artist who is very good at swindling people into thinking he is a tech genius and that people should give him money so he can impregnate Mars with his space X dicks...

 

[Tears in Rain]

What if reality is just an illusion? Then what happens to us after suicide? Your thoughts?

A guy did a piece in Scientific American 3 years ago saying we do live in a simulation. Maybe you come back in again for another ride in the simulation as a new avatar. Or you are just done with it for good at death.

Confirmed! We Live in a Simulation

We must never doubt Elon Musk again

www.scientificamerican.com

Non-existence is impossible.

Why is non-existence not possible?

Elon Musk is not smart.

He is just a con artist who is very good at swindling people into thinking he is a tech genius and that people should give him money so he can impregnate Mars with his space X dicks...

Musk is probably very smart in some areas(technology, innovation) and very dumb in others(emotional intelligence, everything else).

 

[Aim]

But what is the meaning behind Elon Musk's theory about this? I don't get it.

 

[4everHeartBroken]

There's no reproducible experimental evidence for any simulation, after life nothing except for evolution. There is mountains of evidence for evolution.

There is nothing after Death, Only non-existence forever. All of us didn't exist for 13.8 billion years before we were born . It will be like that again after death non-existence forever.

I don't get it why humans think that a brain that can suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain is something good , a beautiful gift , something important enough to simulate. What that is to me is an extreme horror an unfathomable abomination a nightmare beyond imagination

Imo all every human is that first DNA chemical reaction, that first cell but only with the added extreme abomination of a brain that can suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain for no reason...

Absolutely LOVE THIS "from Protocells to People". Thank you for this!!!

 

[hibikikyuxx]

Why is non-existence not possible?

Because "non-EXISTENCE" in itself is a contradiction. If nothing exists then nothing exists, but nothing can't exist, so how does nothing exist? If nothing exists, there is no concept of nothing or existence. So it's technically impossible for nothing to actually exist. "Nothing" can't exist. That's why non-existence is impossible.

 

[CannabisMuncher]

What if reality is just an illusion? Then what happens to us after suicide? Your thoughts?

bro idk in a way i kinda wish that this is all kinda like not real and we wake up in a perfect flawlese world after we die. I dont think its true, but i like the idea

 

[sserafim]

I think that we could be living in a simulation/the matrix. Maybe once we die we enter the true reality? I think that the prison planet theory is more likely though (earth is a prison and we're trapped in a reincarnation loop on it).

If we live in a simulation, I will suicide after my suicide.

What if we'll have to do quantum suicide

There's no reproducible experimental evidence for any simulation, after life nothing except for evolution. There is mountains of evidence for evolution.

There is nothing after Death, Only non-existence forever. All of us didn't exist for 13.8 billion years before we were born . It will be like that again after death non-existence forever.

I don't get it why humans think that a brain that can suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain is something good , a beautiful gift , something important enough to simulate. What that is to me is an extreme horror an unfathomable abomination a nightmare beyond imagination

Imo all every human is that first DNA chemical reaction, that first cell but only with the added extreme abomination of a brain that can suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain for no reason...

I hate that first cell so much. Like why did it even come into being? What was the reason why…

 

[4everHeartBroken]

A guy did a piece in Scientific American 3 years ago saying we do live in a simulation. Maybe you come back in again for another ride in the simulation as a new avatar. Or you are just done with it for good at death.

Confirmed! We Live in a Simulation

We must never doubt Elon Musk again

www.scientificamerican.com

Why is non-existence not possible?


Musk is probably very smart in some areas(technology, innovation) and very dumb in others(emotional intelligence, everything else).

I agree. He did design the very first electric car… Then Space X. But that still wasn't enough for him. Then, he decides to put a Tesla attached to a rocket and send it to the moon! That still wasn't enough! Now… Neurolink! People are walking around with brain implants created by Elon Musk! What's this guy up to next?!

I still believe that after death is just an eternal blissful non existence

I'm actually hoping for this too.

 

[Tears in Rain]

Because "non-EXISTENCE" in itself is a contradiction. If nothing exists then nothing exists, but nothing can't exist, so how does nothing exist? If nothing exists, there is no concept of nothing or existence. So it's technically impossible for nothing to actually exist. "Nothing" can't exist. That's why non-existence is impossible.

They didn't say "nothing forever" or "nothingness forever", they said "non-existence forever"., i.e. lack of existence.
I presume their take is that this current existence is potentially sandwiched between two eternities of non-existence.

 

[hibikikyuxx]

They didn't say "nothing forever" or "nothingness forever", they said "non-existence forever".

I literally said "Because NON-EXISTENCE in itself is a contradiction. If nothing exists then nothing exists, but nothing can't exist, so how does nothing exist? If nothing exists, there is no concept of nothing or existence. So it's technically impossible for nothing to actually exist. "Nothing" can't exist. That's why non-existence is impossible."

I never implied in my comment that the user said "nothing forever" or nothingness forever".

I presume their take is that this current existence is sandwiched between two eternities of non-existence.

What even is that supposed to mean?

 

[4everHeartBroken]

I think that we could be living in a simulation/the matrix. I think that the prison planet theory is more likely though (earth is a prison and we're trapped in a reincarnation loop on it). Maybe once we die we enter the true reality?

What if we'll have to do quantum suicide

I hate that first cell so much. Like why did it even come into being? What was the reason why…

"I hate that first cell so much"…. Agreed!

 

[whywere]

Interesting to say the least. If we are, the whole program should be scrapped and started all over. Case in point, so many humans, no one here, that is what makes this site so darn wonderful! are greedy, egotistical and the like that at the end of just one day, it is like WHAT? Start over please.

Could we be in a "matrix", sure why not. At almost 68 years here, I wonder if anything would surprise me anymore.

Sunny skies to everyone here, no matter what the program says that is running right now.

Walter

 

[4everHeartBroken]

Interesting to say the least. If we are, the whole program should be scrapped and started all over. Case in point, so many humans, no one here, that is what makes this site so darn wonderful! are greedy, egotistical and the like that at the end of just one day, it is like WHAT? Start over please.

Could we be in a "matrix", sure why not. At almost 68 years here, I wonder if anything would surprise me anymore.

Sunny skies to everyone here, no matter what the program says that is running right now.

Walter

GREAT response Walter! Thanks.

 

[Tears in Rain]

I literally said "Because NON-EXISTENCE in itself is a contradiction. If nothing exists then nothing exists, but nothing can't exist, so how does nothing exist? If nothing exists, there is no concept of nothing or existence. So it's technically impossible for nothing to actually exist. "Nothing" can't exist. That's why non-existence is impossible."

I never implied in my comment that the user said "nothing forever" or nothingness forever".

What even is that supposed to mean?

I light a match, fire exists. I blow out the match, fire no longer exists. Non-existence of fire.

I think you're mixing up nothingness forever (a state of nothingness) which people put forward here sometimes, and non-existence(not a state).
The former alludes to existence continuing after death, the latter doesn't.

 

[hibikikyuxx]

I light a match, fire exists. I blow out the march, fire no longer exists. Non-existence of fire.

Fire is a non living...thing. No, it's not even a thing, nor is it alive. It's a description of a process. The rapid reaction of fuel with oxygen. You shouldn't use something like that as an example for non existence.

I think you're mixing up nothingness forever (a state of nothingness) which people put forward here sometimes, and non-existence(not a state).

Nothingness and non-existence are both impossible as they are nothing. Like I said, "non-existence" in itself is a contradiction. "Nothing" can't exist.

The former alludes to existence continuing after death, the latter doesn't.

Neither of it alludes to existence continuing after death.

 

[F&Inside]

Well
If this is a simulation, I hope they put me in easy mode next time, a normal supportive and caring family would be nice, is that too much to ask?

 

[DesperateOne]

What if reality is just an illusion? Then what happens to us after suicide? Your thoughts?

I don't know if we live in a simulation, but I did adopt the view that the self is a simulation. What you feel, your thoughts and identity is all just a projection of the brain developed through thousands of years of evolution.

It's like an image on a screen. Is the image real? Well in a sense it is, but if you zoom in and flip the monitor it is just capacitors, transistors and other computer stuff that produces the image on at first purely black screen.

My question is though, how did the universe even start? Who put into it those initial conditions/rules? If you say it is a simulation, then who created the universe outside of our simulation? You can't get something of nothing, it is completely paradoxical...

Honestly, I don't think we will ever know... Our senses aren't made to understand reality, we are just made to reproduce.

 

[whitefeather]

What if reality is just an illusion? Then what happens to us after suicide? Your thoughts?

Human life is fairy tales / illusions. Death delivers us back to Reality. Sanctioned Suicide website is evolutionary .

 

[Forever Sleep]

Then, I guess we get big 'Game Over' letters appear in front of us.

 

[noname223]

I often have the feeling I am in a torture simulation without a joke. I get the feeling there might be some hints in my life.

 

[Tears in Rain]

But what is the meaning behind Elon Musk's theory about this? I don't get it.

Elon has said a few times that life is possibly/probably a simulation:

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

If it is one, then the devs need to hurry up and release the latest patch already. Too many bugs and glitches that need fixing. Also nerf landlords.