If existence was a series of simulations observing other simulations what kind of existential realizations would you have after watching billions upon billions of lives pop in and out of existence?
Into the microcosm. Watch it free on youTube. Really changed my entire perspective on living organisms. Stop worrying about who people are, and accept what they are. All lives have value, and they all end. There is no meaning. There is no punchline. You go until you stop, then you disperse back into the cycle of life and death never to be the same again. I'm not saying that nothing is everything. I'm saying everything has no intentional message or meaning. So respect the lives around you, refuse to add suffering to others, give everyone a chance to experience happiness in life where you can help. Stop reacting, stop needing, stop blaming yourself. You have value, your enough, allow yourself to take up space. To breath air. To occupy your own mind. It's alright.
There is no meaning. There is no punchline. You go until you stop, then you disperse back into the cycle of life and death never to be the same again.
This is true, but these type of statements are often formed as though the "you" is the first step. It misses something important. All of us are made of borrowed stuff. The water in our blood was some other animal's piss at one point. The skin we're so proud of were many times over leaves, dirt, shit, creatures, bacteria, algae, decaying carcass, pond scum, and then leaves a bunch more times. Each one of us are not the beginning of this, and we not the end either. If you want to go back even further, we're all made up of the same smashed together hydrogen atoms that make up the ground we walk on and the surface of the sun.
To think we are chosen or individually superior to others is pure hubris.
So respect the lives around you, refuse to add suffering to others, give everyone a chance to experience happiness in life where you can help.
This so much!
I love you both. I appreciate your time here and hope that you are successful in your endeavors. Cherish your time with those you love and doing what you love doing. Best wishes.
One thing I would probably notice (which I know I would notice because I notice it now) is how awfully convenient it was for many things in history to play out as they did. How odd is it, for example, that every nuke and world-ending event that was about to be deployed was cancelled at the last moment, or how the most important historical figures always die as their own hands, or how 99.9% of all public figures, "philosophers", inventors, important rulers, generals, diplomats, and so on were all men?
how 99.9% of all public figures, “philosophers”, inventors, important rulers, generals, diplomats, and so on were all men?
Men got the credit for them, no matter who actually did the work.
It's not convenient, it's survivor bias.
Brother. None of those things were convenient. They all have perfectly reasonable explanations.
How? Like with the last one, recorded history goes back six thousand years if not twelve thousand years... and this explanation lasted that long, applying to every human setting, for tens of thousands of significant people? Even if there was a dimorphic cause for it, statistically you'd think at least one female founder of some group somewhere would arise, but being the history disciple I am, even then it's like there is some kind of everpresent force that's stuck on man-mode that maybe I wonder about because I'm not a man.
There are also some which I know could have a reasonable explanation but which would be no less suspicious. Like the threat of nuclear conflict for example. Hundreds of times people have said "someone almost launched a nuke at someone, but one random guy in the submarine made a difference by not following through" or "this nuke or that nuke was dropped from a crashed plane but miraculously held onto its last remaining safety code and didn't work" or "this nuke that actually was dropped and blew up just so happened to do so far enough away from civilization that nobody saw it". If it's not our biggest stroke of luck, it's the ultimate form of "I'm really, really going to do it", though I wouldn't count on that as someone whose parents and grandparents were impacted by the nuclear tests of Chirac and Mitterand.
For many things, missing one thing would have meant it coming up elsewhere.
Consider how some discoveries were made by different people independently.
Some were not recognized or became public knowledge. You may very well find that what happened was not how convenient they were but that it was pure chance, and could have been more convenient in more instances.
I guess we already are watching that. We couldn't function without all the microscopic life... bugs in our bellies, bugs in our eyes, bugs that help feed us
Finding out that we live in a simulation would change nothing about how I see other people or myself. That concept is perfectly compatible with how I'm living my life right now.
Woops, I clicked the dystopia setting instead of the utopia one.
Happy little accident.
Well, you would probably have the answer to if life is entirely deterministic. And if it is, you'll probably have the ability to extrapolate the precise conditions that manifested yourself and this project. Which begs the question are you the original and does it matter?
Wear sunscreen.
nothing is as real as you think it is and that's fine.
That I need a healthier hobby.
Can we even reasonably determine or guess that? We are not in that situation after all.
We can make guesses, but they are fundamentally rooted in our single reality.