What If - Dimensions and Realities
27 2018-01-12 by theophilus79
What if naysayers are right, and there really are no alternate dimensions, realities, timelines, past lives etc. What if in reality, the government is using electronic means (cell phones, computers, Facebook algorithms) to create somewhat of an artificial duplicate of our consciousness (not complete, but a reasonable facsimile) and has multiple computer sims in which each "person" is subjected to a series of different situations as a way to predict what their response will be. Starting out as a way to predict and prevent criminal behaviour, it evolved into a way to test what policies and ideals could be successfully pushed on the masses, and in what proportions. As a result, deja vu and the Mandela effect and other similar feelings/experiences are nothing more than our consciousness sensing something that happened to another sliver of, or digitally produced recreation of our consciousness...
20 comments
3 jsp7355 2018-01-12
X-Files literally just did this idea (using technology to "copy" us into a simulation) 2 days ago, and Black Mirror has already been mentioned.
1 theophilus79 2018-01-12
Asurion has my TV. Another defective Samsung "Smart" TV. Oh well. Sorry for the similarity.
3 jsp7355 2018-01-12
Sorry why? Just was pointing out that this idea is in the public consciousness recently.
2 theophilus79 2018-01-12
My brother would say it's from an implanted consciousness stream - but he's into all that mind control conspiracy theory.
1 CivilianConsumer 2018-01-12
Well it's not a new idea, been discussed here before as well., If you see it on TV then it's been done before
1 astralrocker2001 2018-01-12
I watched that fantastic Black Mirror episode last night. It is pretty close to the truth. We are absolutely trapped inside a Simulated Universe. The difference being that the completely controlling Evil Captain Kirk Character is actually a group of Predatory Aliens in our situation. The Simulation is closed off from Eternal Source Energy. This is why all the inhabitants of this Matrix Simulation are predatory. Humans are FORCED TO REINCARNATE through massive deception. By doing this the Archon Aliens are never fully exposed and the enslavement continues on and on...
3 medailleon 2018-01-12
The ideas aren't mutually exclusive. The option exists that we are in an AI controlled matrix AND the real universe contains many dimensions, timelines, etc. What happens within this matrix doesn't necessarily have to have an effect on what happens outside of it.
2 nicernow 2018-01-12
What if naysayers are wrong, and there really are alternate dimensions, realities, timelines, past lives etc?
What if the system you so elaborately described is being built in several different forms for different purposes?
Much like tales of aspiring to reverse engineer off-world travel technologies the very things you posit don't exist are somewhat the archetypal templates for micro-versions running in surface human civilization.
As above so below.
2 MrBallsackEyes 2018-01-12
You are onto something. Except I think it is that we actually are the simulation.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-01-12
The 'simulation' of what?
1 MrBallsackEyes 2018-01-12
The universe and all life as we know it.
2 BetweenTrips 2018-01-12
That's all fine and good, but it doesn't hold true. The notion of replicating the contents of consciousness (or its computational capacity) does not explain subjective experience.
You can imagine replicating infinitely complex sets of information but it does not follow that by doing that subjective experience would arise.
You and I are not real to begin with. There is no such thing as solid matter. Everything is insubstantial and transient in nature. Yet, in every moment we are here to experience it.
We cannot say, that our material selves are with absolute certainty are not simulated within a complex computational system. We may be, but it doesn't really matter. We have subjective experience, we have an individual vantage point.
You are experiencing things. That fact cannot be reduced to computational power or information. There is no evidence to support that sentience arise from either.
On the other hand, there is plenty of good science to support the idea that your knowing, your subjective experience, is - much like in a dream - what creates the illusion of a solid, material world.
1 1tepa1 2018-01-12
Consciousness is that which is aware, you cant duplicate it. If you create simulation of thoughts, you have not created that which is aware of them.
1 nathan420 2018-01-12
Neat idea man I've not heard of this before.
1 legalize-drugs 2018-01-12
You can disprove this by smoking DMT and soaring through these other "dimensions" yourself, and I really recommend that you do. I don't know what to make of the Mandela effect, though....
2 AbandonInPlace 2018-01-12
Mandela Effect is the first legitimate freaky unexplainable thing I've experienced in my long life. And I believe 98%+ of it is bullshit, but man that <= 2% is something I can't explain or dismiss.
1 schmickler83 2018-01-12
98% is about what I say is bullshit, regarding Mandela Effect, which means there are a lot of people misremembering things and mistaking memory issues for Mandela Effect, or perhaps less likely, there is a ton of disinformation about it. The memory mistakes are so easily debunked: Berenstain Bears, Froot Loops, 3 seat benches in JFK limo, Luke I'm your father, all easily explained, and all easy to misremember. The 2nd option: disinfo, would mean ME is real and they are flooding the internet wirh dumb shit, to discredit and misdirect, etc.
All I can say firsthand is, Mandela Effect seems so stupid, and 98% of examples are lame, but when you feel it yourself, it just seems so real, and you can't let the personal examples go.
1 Koopk1 2018-01-12
The old brain in a jar theory
1 DarthStem 2018-01-12
Black Mirror just did an episode in their latest season that's like this but for dating.
4 ComaRJR 2018-01-12
that's where he got it from.