Over the past year I've had many more thoughts about the simulation theory and it's implications.
So here's another take on this state of mind and perception of reality.
So let’s in fact consider that life is a simulation. Let’s also consider that after death it either loops or it’s lights out.
So, I’m in a simulation in which nothing matters at the end of the day, no one matters at the end of the day.
People starve and it’s not my problem.
People die and it’s not my problem.
I may be able to do something about it but I don’t since it doesn’t matter to me and doesn’t affect me directly.
People that are close to me are all mirages. Love is a simulated feeling generated for normies to grip on to the fake reality they’re entranced by.
Okay.
Nothing matters, no one matters and it’s lights out at the end. (Or a loop, reincarnation, spiritual transcendence, etc.)
This means that life is all about instant gratification and pleasure seeking. In fact - I argue that this perspective is the validation theory for hedonism and egotistical disregard for one’s surrounding(s), whether they’re living or just material, this of course bearing in mind that it disqualifies the beliefs of faiths and religions that believe in reincarnation.
Validation or an excuse?
I have a mind experiment for a person who doesn't have any faith in all but the existence of a simulation.
I'll call it "The Day of the Death of the Mind"
Here we go:
I think life is not real and no one around me is real.
So I wake up in the morning and don’t go to work. I go get a beer with my credit card and then get some cocaine since I don’t care - it doesn’t matter, all I’m after is feeling good.
Some guy called me a bitch in the store while I was getting my beer - so as he left the store and turned into an alleyway - I followed him and killed him.
Fuck him, he’s just an NPC. (Non-playable character, in reference to video games being a simulation of reality, i.e. G.T.A.)
Okay, then I meet my cocaine dealer. He brought a lot of cocaine. I rob him. Fuck him. I’m trying to get very high and feel good.
I get high on cocaine and call some prostitutes to get an orgy going.
On my way I rape someone I find attractive in the alleyway by sedating them. I steal their nice watch and leave their body in the alleyway trash bin.
I go and gather the orgy where I have sex with multiple people I find attractive. I don’t feel love. There is no love.
There is only my genitalia and the dopamine I get from it.
We get very high and fuck for a long time.
It’s the evening, so far - the day has been (hedonistically) good.
I wake up the next day and I try do it all over again.
Maybe I rob a bank and flee to another country, or I get caught.
It doesn’t matter.
I can commit suicide.
Good thing I have all this dope on me - I can just choose to end it.
In this way, the simulation hypothesis is exactly that - an excuse to be an egotistical maniac.
I can see how depression can drive people to this state, I can see how systematic repression drives people to this state and I think it’s mostly what does that.
When society puts down people that stand out or are somewhat weird or different from what is considered normal and this society sees everyone as just blimps that don’t mean anything unless they follow a quota (which might even be unknown or unnecessary) or people that aren’t gifted or don’t somehow achieve a status that is to be considered “superior”, but of course - only in the absolute normality of societal acceptance of the majority of people - then this prompts people to consider themselves ultimately alone, and perhaps in a simulation in which everyone else is simply a compliant actor.
This is the simulation hypothesis at its most dangerous level.
A VERY DANGEROUS MINDSET.
But that is exactly it. If the system does not care about or consider the individual - then the individual will inadvertently feel the same way.
It’s an incredibly tricky condition.
It takes a lot of willpower and esteem to overcome this feeling of not belonging to a whole that does not consider individuality.
But how else would the whole change if not from the effect of an individual's(s) actions? It's a ripple effect that asserts meaning in the lives of people.
Yet it seems most would rather say fuck it when they indeed are in a position to make a change, because it is the easy way out.
Not only is it the easy way out however - it is also the most selfish way to approach life.
But then again - if nothing is real and an individual seems so dismissed from society - then there is absolutely nothing stopping them from feeling this way.
At the end of the day: validation is not enough. People seek understanding and community.
It’s in our nature. To disregard this aspect of humanity is senseless and inhumane.
It is a crime in its own sense, a crime against the human condition.
A crime against life.
To not deal with trauma is in effect a generational curse.
If no one confronts issues that stand out or question societal norms, then it may condemn the future generations to inherit this state.
So I revisit the simulation hypothesis, with the first one referring to the pursuit of truth, while this one ultimately considers the condition of deep despair which leads to pain - the numbing of which results in the loss of meaning and purpose.
However, there is also a third way to look at the simulation hypothesis, which is from a more futurist perspective.
Incoming.
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