...and what does it matter if you're real? Wait, what does "real" really mean? Not true test. We'll probably never know. And why create the nature of a simulation that's detectable or provable? And we've got some kind of consciousness even if we're part of some type of programming. Isn't it possible that the ramifications of consciousness are part of that program? The sense of being conscious and having free will and being a genuine lifeform could be coded as well. If a simulation designed for something like alternate histories, then a designer wouldn't want to distract the inhabitants with unnatural perceptions of themselves and their reality. Or any aberrations that could take away from an objective? Maybe there's no objective. We might be aberrations from any type of simulation. Is it natural to question ourselves, the problems of studying our physical constituents, our universes and paradoxes? Seems like it, but what is natural? Can't we only reference what we perceive as natural? No matter the intention of our simulation or any simulation or any statistical calculation, something simple like an equation, why assume perfection? Why can't we be a mistake? Regardless, if there was a purpose, the creator(s) would make things as real as their reality if they truly wanted to simulate something... or would they want something far from their reality... a true experiment like life forms that existed in only several dimensions or a universe with a particular set of physics and particles and their reality is chaotic or has an exotic set of particles that goes beyond our understanding of possibilities and stability and their universe is something we could never understand... getting carried away. Theorizing is usually more interesting than reality anyway.

I'm not on reddit as much these days but every single contribution, including reading a post, makes me very glad I started this subreddit. Any suggestions? I'll try to accommodate. I'm not on reddit as much these days but every single contribution, including reading a post, makes me very glad I started this subreddit. Any suggestions? I'll try to accommodate.