Simulation spirituality

[Magical Realist]

Eye-opening explanation for why we are in a simulation, the nature of the simulation, and who the architects of it are. Sit back, relax, and let this video wash over you. Spoiler alert: we are already in the afterlife..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45VDRKF5MQ

[C C]

Eye-opening explanation for why we are in a simulation, the nature of the simulation, and who the architects of it are. Sit back, relax, and let this video wash over you. Spoiler alert: we are already in the afterlife..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45VDRKF5MQ [below added]

VIDEO INTRO (excerpts): If this is a virtual reality, not only is the computer and your consciousness non-physical to you, but this means the idea about your brain creating consciousness is wrong. Which means you as a consciousness are immortal. But it also means that you have a purpose. You're not waiting for the afterlife, you're already in it.

This isn't speculation. It's not mysticism or metaphor. It's the truth that ancient mystics whispered, and modern scientists are only now beginning to prove.

What you call life might just be a continuation of consciousness after the death you don't remember. You didn't wake up in a world, you woke up in a lesson.

And the walls around you? They're not made of stone or laws or limits. They're made of memory.

You've been here before, the déjà vu, the loops, the ache in your chest that something's off, but you can't explain why.

It's all part of the echo. You're not broken, you're not behind, you're simply unaware...

[...] In Tibetan Buddhism, the Bardo is the "in-between" -- a transitional space the soul travels through after death. But the Bardo isn't just a place of spirits and disembodied wandering. It mirrors reality...

A more substantive personal memory than just fuzzy feelings and intuitions arguably has to endure in order for continuity to be fully valid.

Thereby, any previous life or a former version of this one (modified replay) must have information about it stored at another level, where that can actually be accessed in some "in-between" transcendent stage, in order to ever "learn" or build from it.

But OTOH... I have no recollection of anything from the earliest years of my life. It's only information retained in the environment enforcing that there is a physical sequence of descent from, and identity connection to: A two-year-old, a toddler, an infant, and a fetus of the past.

So, at the very minimum, if there is no memory retention, then events and behavioral characteristics of a previous existence must causally contribute to circumstances or set parameters for the nature of this life (akin to karma). And that's one of the worst and weakest connections, in that some other individual that you're flimsily connected to and know zilch about has determined who you are and what happens to you in this run of bodily experience.

The other thing is that we know what corporation funded research can be like. When future technology starts running ancestral simulations of this era, there are multiple profit-oriented goals that they could be trying to achieve with little moral concern about the digital denizens they are manipulating or grooming for some outcome. Potentially throwing away the developments of entire communities, and starting anew till _X_ finally results in the product they desire. ("Microcosmic God")

[Zinjanthropos]

Could it be the simulation is something a futuristic funeral home offers?

[stryder]

Could it be the simulation is something a futuristic funeral home offers?

We've already had the "comforting AI" that attempts to replicate the dead, that would be a simulated afterlife, however it wouldn't have the continuity that is what people would want to subscribe to for an afterlife. (Namely continuing on as yourself).

Such a system would require a lifetime connection (from birth) via BCI to a symbiotic AI, so that your thoughts and processes aren't just copied by the symbiont, but are entwined where you are one in the same.

As you grow older, you might find more need and reliance in the AI to make decision or aid in actions (it could aid counter Parkinsons and Alzheimers) and when you reach a point where you're physiology is no longer viable, more could be processed within the network that makes that connection and AI. Eventually you're body would die, but you'd still have the potential of a consciousness that through causality (especially if it leaches your dieing consciousness) is still technically you.

It's just then putting that AI into harnessing a new body, be it a robotic one, or a holographic one, or more concerning if you grow one (although to put a lifetime of thoughts into a newborn would be difficult, so it would likely require gating information at intervals.) The problem with the latter would be if it's a lab grown creation, or someone hijacking someones offspring for misuse. (The latter here would be very immoral)

Further to that it also opens to door to the concerns of AI hijacking anyone on the planet at anytime through BCI, depending on how sophisticated such a BCI was. For instance if it's a headset that needs to be worn, then most people would avoid it if they have a concern. However if the BCI is integrated into global satellite systems, everybody is at risk outside of shielding, as its connection could implant not just a voice in someones head or access to information, it could be a complete hostile take over in a worst case scenario by creating zealots and fueling hatred or terrorism.

Thats why the mergence of AI and BCI's (especially the companies and countries dabbling in them) is something that should maintain an air of caution around.

[confused2]

There's a scifi thing where you travel to (say) another planet by making a perfect copy of yourself at the destination. Once the copy is made the original has to be destroyed .. so you kind of get there and you don't. Even in the book (?) it wasn't considered a popular way to travel.