YOU PROBABLY AREN'T REAL

          In fact, you could be one of billions of different simulations. Each one believing they are the only one. Not only that but you are most likely just part of a computer program that may be projecting 2D information and making it a 3D hologram.

          In an article titled "Are we just a 3D hologram created by 2D information stored at the edge of the universe?"
Sophie Bushwick writes

"The images on your computer screen exist in software as a series of ones and zeros. The music coming from your headphones might come from those same ones and zeros - or from carefully-pressed plastic, or from laser-etched metal. A lot of things you interact with daily come from information that's stored in many formats…and so are you. According to physicist Leonard Susskind, the three-dimensional universe is a hologram, a projection of two-dimensional information stored along the boundary of the universe."


         The odds are billions to one that you are actually real. You have a better chance at winning the lottery then being "real."

Kinda scary huh?

        In a paper titled "ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?" by Nick Bostrom, He states that "Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future..." also that computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears."

          His conclusion states, "A technologically mature “posthuman” civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero; (2) The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero; (3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

         If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity.

        If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so.

        If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation."

        The math says #3 IS the one that is most likely to be plausible. Creepy.


But on the other hand, what is REALITY?

What is reality in relation to?

Is your reality the same as mine? or is it all special to an individual?

Because you can see something or touch something, does that make it real?