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Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument

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lord Frieza - 2020-02-17

@unknown secured or here's another idea.. none of them are real.

Russian Bot Ulf - 2020-02-19

@lord Frieza guess what you dont even need science to detect him, hes just so obvious , but science especially chemistry brings you quite a few steps closer to him

lord Frieza - 2020-02-19

@Russian Bot Ulf no it's not obvious too many people and that's one reason why we don't believe is because we see absolutely no evidence for any God. also know it does not things in science do not bring you any closer to believing in the Bible due to the fact that the Bible is dead wrong about almost every scientific claim it makes. And the people who wrote that ancient Tome didn't know what chemistry is let alone anything about it.

lord Frieza - 2020-02-19

@Russian Bot Ulf so in one breath you're going to say that you can't use science to test if God exists but in your next comment you're going to say that the science of chemistry is evidence God's existence without actually stating how it does that in any way.... You are an extremely dumb and gullible individual.

Perpetual Bystander - 2020-03-16

Well, if you choose a bird to explain to an ant what humans are all about, then of course you'll fail. 😒

BrightN'Night Woomy - 2020-01-22

Imagine reality is not real and the aliens are just watching this video like “bruh they figured it out”

Benmore - 2020-03-19

@Peter Wong "freeze all motor functions"

Elijah Padilla - 2020-03-19

Hahaha

luke - 2020-03-19

If we are just their Netflix than they have to be someone else's too

SuperAwsomePro Gaming - 2020-03-21

Hehe I hope your right because people are suiciding themselves to find out

Ryonichi - 2020-03-22

That's why they put the corona on earth so that we would die

TheDoRoBouNeko - 2020-01-27

‘Super advanced civilisations want to run simulations.’

Humans: plays SIMS

HOW DARE YOU - 2020-03-12

The Sims is based off of our own lives.
We ourselves are in a video game/simulation, where we are really controlled/watched over by a higher power.

We ordinary people wil never figure this out, so the people that do know got The Sims created to laugh in our faces that we are really playing a game based on our own universe, but we will never know that.
(This is a Very Good possibility btw.)

HOW DARE YOU - 2020-03-12

@Justbiz biz
Great minds think a like.
Let's team up n conquer the universe. Lmao.

Luke Watson - 2020-03-12

@HOW DARE YOU I was just pointing out the reference they made from Rick and Morty

HOW DARE YOU - 2020-03-12

@Luke Watson
I mistook your comment for being a reply to what Justbiz had stated.
Sorry about the mistake.

FeelitSupreme - 2020-03-18

@Justbiz biz yeah, but are they questioning it? Like you/we are? 🤔

Timur - 2020-03-06

"Your body might feel like it's filled with bubbly things, but it might be empty, untill you open it.'

>Grabs kitchen knife

Mike Hu - 2020-03-08

Timur challenge accepted

Secret Browser - 2020-02-09

Why does my player love making me touch myself?

Hyper sugar15 - 2020-03-13

@2 Clicks simulation

Jordan Randell - 2020-03-13

Ever had wicked whims on the sims 4?

Lohst - 2020-03-14

Mine getting over it

Anon - 2020-03-14

cus you're a filthy weeb

Banana Gaming - 2020-03-15

Same here

Gamer Jole - 2020-02-14

Me:(dies to a car crash)
Simulation: GAME OVER
Alien: F***

A Frustrated Gamer - 2020-03-13

I honesty think about this. What if we ARE the beings running the sims, but we lack our real memories. The technology would be so unfathomably advanced to even run a simulation like this, that altering perception to such a degree would be child's play.

Why would they do this? Who knows? Maybe they just like seeing how far their creations can get before wiping themselves out. Maybe the people who have it the hardest in life are avatars of aliens that are competing for a higher "gaming" reward. "If you survive long enough, you'll earn 1 quadrillion bdgdhsjazs!" And all the rich and powerful people are aliens playing on "Easy" difficulty.

saitama - 2020-03-13

@A Frustrated Gamer yea or
let's say a 15000 years ago someone got consciousness and he built a human body to ride on
just an assumption :) (well I doubt he built it all by himself but maybe)

MaxwellMegaGamer 85 - 2020-03-17

mario 64 game over starts

Joseph Gru - 2020-03-18

so dark

Swapan Biswas - 2020-03-19

Then comes the respawn😂😂😂

Dr Strange - 2018-09-12

Hey whoever is controlling me please stop procrastinating me.

mael adzalla - 2020-03-14

Dr Strange what if you’re the person controlling you? What if you created a character that looks exactly like you?

mael adzalla - 2020-03-14

Dr Strange What if you’re controlling you? And like in a video gameyou created a character that looks like you

Shriram Choudhary - 2020-03-15

You won't get your maker here in the comment box 😂

Vibhav S Chaudhary - 2020-03-19

Here have your 20k likes bro

marichan gabriella - 2020-03-21

Yeah stop it
(What a mood)

Lizzie Castronovo - 2020-02-04

*purposely closes eyes for an absurd amount of time*

Person controlling me: COME ONNNNN!!!

Lilli Neitzel - 2020-03-15

Bit wouldnt they make that decision for u

WolfPint - 2020-03-15

It’s a loading screen for the next day

skthe bee - 2020-03-18

Sleep is just a reboot

AndyHappyGuy - 2020-03-21

but then you are actually just an A.I npc and nobody is controlling you.

Magical Wizard - 2020-03-22

😂😂😂

Max Glider - 2020-02-28

Imagine alien watching us making tiktok videos
"Human simulation is a mistake"

Erratas - 2020-03-11

Oh My God 🤣🤣

An Anime Weeb - 2020-03-13

69th like, nice

Ruoho - 2020-03-13

I mean i dont blame them.

TheEventor - 2020-03-16

CORVID-19 has been downloaded to EARTH2816

Ruoho - 2020-03-16

@TheEventor successfully downloaded*

Jari Scholman - 2020-02-04

3:06 - Well, technically they only have to be able to simulate one conscious mind: you, for you can't prove everyone around you is conscious as well.

Priyansh Gaurav - 2020-03-15

Bro are u conscious for sure? Dont lie. Coz if its a yes,it makes us two!

WillowTheMeifwa - 2020-03-15

Well, the egg video says that everyone is actually the same person in different lifetimes, so my consciousness is the same as yours, but neither of us remember our past life. So everyone is connected, and if you bully someone, you are bullying yourself. "Treat others the way you want to be treated" because what if this is true and they are you, in a previous or later lifetime, then every action you make is actually effecting you... But it's just a theory, and a pretty cool one at that.

Teofil Olariu - 2020-03-15

@Tom Perry no,you could be concious and every single living thing you encounter could be programmed

Helga John - 2020-03-21

best comment, sounds like a true :о

Snake 293736577929# - 2020-03-22

I've been thinking about that a lot, like you can't prove that anyone else is actually real and when people are out of your vision they could just dissaper or stop moving or something you can't really prove it it's kinda scary to think about

Excalibruh - 2020-02-11

Imagine when we can't sleep is it because the sleep servers are full and waiting for one to wake up


Edit:thanks much for the likes never got this many😀😀

MiMO Bail - 2020-02-24

i'm here because of a dream... i felt like i woke up, but I was stuck. not as a sleep paralysis stuck, but as a dream in a dream stuck. When i thought i woke up i couldn't see anything just a thought image that no matter if i opened or closed my eyes the same image was stuck in a though... to better explain it was like when you close your eyes and think of something...also, I couldn't feel anything. It seem to feel like my brain was the only thing alive/awake and everything else was not working/a sleep.

Nada Fethallah - 2020-03-06

😂😂😂😂😂😂📈📈

yokeo - 2020-03-10

@MiMO Bail look up lucid dreaming and astral projection and you may find answers

TheZyreick - 2020-03-13

na, the reason you can't sleep is cause there is too many monsters nearby

Banana Gaming - 2020-03-15

Does time go quickly for people who are not sleeping or slower because when you sleep it goes fast but When you are awake it takes a while

Alamkan Countryball - 2019-07-19

I have autism and multiple movement disabilities.

My player is playing in hard mode.

bleep bloop boop - 2020-03-12

Captain Junior more like being an atheist in he middle east

Jordan Randell - 2020-03-13

The downloaded too much CC

DylanTheVillain101 - 2020-03-13

Same

Lohst - 2020-03-14

Mine can’t seem to move at all most of the time

David Meads - 2020-03-14

👏👏😂😂😂

Duke Nukem - 2020-03-17

Beginner mode: Denmark
Easy mode: USA
Medium mode: Afganistan
Hard mode: Venezuela
Very hard mode: North Korea
Impossible mode; Xenomorph planet.

Snowlynx 11 - 2020-03-20

I think north Korea should be easier to play than afganistan

THE BİG MAN WİTH WALKİNG TREE - 2020-03-20

Afghanistan middle?

The Scottish History Guy - 2020-01-31

The whole thing at the start about its empty till you open it sounds like Schrödinger's cat on steroids

Excalibur - 2020-02-02

Lol

Jb Agustin - 2020-03-10

Yea

Aditya Srivastava - 2020-03-17

Yes. The first thing came to my mind as well 😅

no. - 2020-03-13

imagine when you die a black screen comes on and a text says

"game over
100% completion
free-play unlocked"

Hùllυ - 2020-03-16

Dude! If there's a free play after death then I'm fucking killing myself right here and now.

Little Skillet Scribbles - 2020-03-22

imagine it said 100% TRUE JEDI like ... I would.... I’d be pretty proud

Null - 2020-03-09

Us:*dies in real life*

Also Us:*hears minecraft death music*

Evelyn Clarke - 2020-03-15

You are so stupid (no offence). Reality might not be real and you're just commenting useless stuff that are not related.

professionalgamerobviously - 2020-03-18

@Evelyn Clarke why so serious

Gonk Droid - 2020-03-21

@Evelyn Clarke wut

Bill Wang - 2019-09-16

Ok aliens you can cut the crap, take me to the customization screen.

Vladimir Roman - 2020-02-29

Take high dose LSD, and you might get ticked to that :D

MissDemeanorMaid - 2020-03-04

Bruh, the gender select was bugged and it chose for me

*Insert Name Here* - 2020-03-05

Please do, and then send me back here smh

Voyd - 2020-03-06

😂

Ruoho - 2020-03-13

Lmao

Josua Erick - 2020-02-08

And then something weird looking creature just emerged outta nowhere and saying "Whoops wrong server"

Emperor Palpatine - 2020-03-13

Dinosaurs

Zero The Stormtrooper - 2020-01-31

I’ll bet everyone that sees this comment thought about life being a simulation when they were 7-9 years old

ποια γελασε την ακουσα - 2020-03-10

Actually I thought thia top when I was young and I even picked sone people that are "real" like me and had them on my mind.

Agastya B Khare - 2020-03-16

I am. 8..... hhahahahhahahahah

mharion eandel aplaon - 2020-03-19

That's true I'm 9 years old

Martijn Maxdem - 2020-03-19

Yeah, had the same thought to be honest when walking to primary school. "If everyone plays with me, then this all may not be real." But that time I was 9 years old (now 22) so I didn't do any web research.

Alec O - 2020-03-20

I had a classmate in middle school say what if we were dreaming this whole time and we wake up we are babies I’m like mind blown

Tiss fant - 2020-03-08

Alien 1: trips over power cable ah shit dude I'm sorry
Alien 2: wtf dude my humans were just starting to realise their own simulated reality, now I got to start all over

Roblox Gaming - 2020-02-10

Coronavirus: exists
Scientist playing in easy mode: Im about to end this mans whole career.

TheYCS08 - 2020-03-20

Roblox Gaming kind of reverse

People: exist

Coronavirus: imma screw up this whole mans career

SzotoxBeta - 2019-12-01

Imagine being so bad at controlling a human that he becomes a furry.

Green Tree - 2020-03-11

Hahahaajhaa wllmao

mEme jOn - 2020-03-16

Dear god
...

Clyde Xavier - 2020-03-19

@Lynxr 69 likes damnn

Vaisakh Ps - 2020-03-20

anyone tell me what furry is

m - 2020-03-21

LMFAOOO

Shriram Choudhary - 2020-02-19

Teacher : Where is your homework ?

Me: is this homework real ? Is this school real ? Are you real ?

Teacher : Let me show you something real.... (slaps hard )

Lonly Man - 2020-02-22

This one should be the best one XD

Cotsee Gaming - 2020-02-03

Me : The player who is controlling me is such a noob


Player : I m gonna end this man's whole career


deleted me from the world

Kuchi Kopi - 2020-02-19

Here's my argument... consciousness doesn't have to be simulated. Why couldn't consciousness just get "beamed in" to our brains? In this theory, our brains are basically receivers, just like a Tv antenna. Our consciousness comes from somewhere else... from a dimension outside of our 3D reality. Therefore, in this simulation, there would be no need to simulate consciousness. It gets sent to our brains, where it adjusts to this reality and forgets where it came from and everything before this. So we think this is our only reality here on Earth, even though it's really not.
Also, there would be no need to simulate the world around us when no one is observing it. Just like the famous light experiment in which light takes the form of a particle or wave when it is observed, the reality we perceive could be generated instantly (or at the speed of light) when we are observing it. This could be built into the program. Everything that is not being observed by a conscious being (human or animal) literally does not exist.


These are my personal beliefs on the subject:
I believe that reality as we know it is a simulation, but not a computer simulation. It's better described as a spiritual simulation. I believe that our consciousness is more powerful that we understand, and it literally can create it's own reality for itself. We are incredibly powerful beings! We come from source consciousness, which you could call God if you wanted to. We are made up of this, therefore God is a part of us because we were generated from source consciousness. There is no need to be afraid of being in a simulation, because we created this reality for ourselves so that we could learn and grow and experience it. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And it is an incredible gift to be here.

Samuel Romero - 2020-03-20

@Kuchi Kopi Ma'am. Thank you... Bless your heart!

paddlesaddlelad , - 2020-03-20

I kinda agree. There's this thing called "Worldbuilding" and its pretty much spiritual simulation; except it's not a simuation but a written storyline.

Samuel Romero - 2020-03-21

@Kuchi Kopi I'd be really interested to interview one of these days by the way on what your point of view is... It would really help me out a lot too!

medod sophia - 2020-03-22

It's really a biggg BIGGGGGGGGGGG... Concept and interesting.
If it is true we are simulations. ......
Then the stimulators are trying to convey something through your........reciver

- Joshwa34 - - 2020-03-22

Samuel Romero I think he’s saying that because no one is observing it then it doesn’t have to be currently existing. This is in reference to the simulation theory and when computers decide to render and not render relevant information.

MAK donalds - 2020-03-20

Kurzgesagt: makes this video


Aliens: can we have a glitch in the matrix

Drawbligated 1 - 2019-09-21

Dude can u imagine if youre playin sims and one of them turns to the camera and just gives you a knowing look.

Nothing But Random - 2020-01-22

Lol or the dude controlling you

Lizzie Castronovo - 2020-02-04

Derrik C OMG SAME

Kingston Romeo - 2020-02-17

Me had a similiar experience in Minecraft ... I was fighting with the wither boss and suddenly he stopped fighting and started looking at the screen and the screen glitches all of a sudden ...
I got freaked out 😂

Tie Roberson - 2020-02-25

Sims: dee wa robbi nay

Translation: You obliviously naive 3d mortal fool. We know that you know that they know that this whole reality is nothing more than a mere simulation and we're all just pawns in someone else's sick, twisted game.

unattended macaroni catches on fire and kills Sim teen in the next room

Magical Wizard - 2020-03-02

🤣🤣🤣🤣

More Duck fights - 2020-03-08

We have 3 glitches

1u hit are elbow on u desk
2 standing up too fast
3 rubbing your eyes too much

Diggity Doggo - 2020-03-08

Congrats! You have gained the “Diet” achievement- wait nevermind just found out the game crashed right before you got it.

Nature love - 2020-03-08

My game has been crushing for 3 months for god sakes

Yashaswi Kulshreshtha - 2020-03-12

"I couldn't sleep in night during exams, oh YEAH i forgot sleep servers were full "

Angry Beaver - 2020-02-17

Certainly felt real enough when the wife slammed my fingers in the car door last month.

Green Tree - 2020-03-11

damn lol.

Erratas - 2020-03-12

How's your finger? :")

Angry Beaver - 2020-03-12

@Erratas still broken . She didn't mean to do it. She was carrying groceries out of the car turning she closed the door on my hand.

Green Tree - 2020-03-12

Get well soon buddy :)

Nairoon - 2019-09-30

My player is seriously awful at character design...

Noldee Volteese - 2019-12-26

Stop talking about god like that!

Shock me! - 2020-01-17

@hyppu what??

hyppu - 2020-01-17

Noldee Volteese Better run im a satanist

Person uwu - 2020-01-26

I'm like that character that they purposely tried to make look bad
LMAO

Yum - 2020-01-30

did you press the random player button?

Ayo GunnaMac - 2020-02-24

So basically I'm someone's GTA character 😂 cool

Harsh Jajee - 2020-03-19

Imagine this we are in a simulation controlled by supreme beings and then they realise that they too are in a simulation controlled by beings even superior to them and this goes on..
Which is quite a paradox

Shikhar Dixit - 2020-03-20

4:10 my computer trying to run MINECRAFT with RTX on

Gormathius Nightstrider - 2020-03-14

I actually have a fun thought about if the universe was a simulation: That the universe isn’t actually made out of atoms; they’re just the highest resolution of voxels the universe engine can render.

Nature love - 2020-03-18

It makes sense but I lost u at voxels

FelineHYPER - 2020-03-19

Holy shit. Now that I know all of this, what should I do?

Gormathius Nightstrider - 2020-03-19

FelineHYPER
First step is to punch microscopic trees so you can build a house in order to survive the first night.

Norii. - 2019-06-05

Whoever is controlling me must be the worst player in the simulation.

Glorp Wallaby - 2019-11-17

Yah Brata is one of my dumbest employee's

Kshitij Sharma - 2019-12-14

If someone is " controlling " you then it's not a simulation, its a game

Aditya Singh Rathore - 2020-01-06

Hold my controller...

Jakeb Henry - 2020-02-19

_kwaams __ agreed, life is just spectator mode with extra steps

Tinu Jijo - 2020-02-24

Allow me to indroduce myself

Tamim Attafi - 2020-03-10

I first encountered this idea in Rick and Morty when they went to that gaming world and simulated that person's life in few seconds, it was terrifying to think about!

dd - 2020-03-06

"We see nobody. The reason for this is that we are living in a simulation."

Evelyn Clarke - 2020-03-15

Do you have a brain? We can't confirm that reality is true but there is a possibility that reality is true.

mikellogs - 2020-03-21

guys lets talk tactix here
if we all pretend to know that we live in a simulation, the people that run the simulation will notice that we have gotten aware of our current state then they will do smth to prevent us from getting too smart. then we know we truly are in a simulation or not

UNKNOWNZ Unlimited - 2020-02-24

What if the creator of the simulation programs some people to “ask” the same question to make us think we aren’t alone realizing the truth and I’m the only real person alive

Everything is a Mind game - 2020-02-24

Nah sadly u got it all wrong

Madison O'Connor - 2020-02-25

You not alive, you a sim

snowy wolf - 2020-03-18

How do I know your not the creator saying this! How do you know I'm not the creator saying this? What the actual frick what if I were the only real person? Or theres a bunch of simulated people but only a few are actually real?

Dj Teranova - 2019-07-22

What if those simulating us are also simulated

Lewis Njagi - 2020-02-24

The INFINITY display

softly snowing - 2020-02-28

Yea and we start simulating our own simulations which simulate their own simulations which is interesting for us because we can then watch the simulations' simulations simulate their own simulation - simulating simulations which simulate their simulations.

StratoX - 2020-03-07

i used the simulation to dsotry the simulation

Emperor Palpatine - 2020-03-13

Like the Sims lol

David Meads - 2020-03-14

@y e e t underrated post👏👏

From the Soil - 2020-03-19

I am so surprised this is so popular now, I remember as a kid I thought maybe I was an alien in a pod and this was all a simulation and I would try to control my "real arms" to take off my helmet and ppl would say I was crazy :P

Juicewahh - 2020-03-19

I used to think I was the only human and everyone around me are robots

futuristic mem - 2020-03-16

me: makes real offensive meme about the people simulating us
the bois simulating us: where is the plug

MinusNoir - 2020-03-20

''I watch Kurzgesagt. Therefore I am.''
- Me

Iga Paterska - 2019-04-13

The person controlling me must be very bad at maths

•Fluffy Kat• - 2019-12-16

Same

Joseph Murphy - 2019-12-19

Yep!!....that's the sum of it!!!....it just don't add up!!!

Jakeb Henry - 2020-02-19

Mate, my controller doesn’t even know what that is

Armanplayz yt - 2020-02-23

Yeah mine too

reuben tettey - 2020-03-06

Eiiiii,lollzzzzzz...damnnn.. Shame on uuu

F.B.I Is not gay - 2020-02-04

REMEMBER
REALITY IS AN ILLUSION
THE UNIVERSE IS A HOLOGRAM
BUY GOLD BYEEEEE

bill cypher”

Critika [Salihmeylani] - 2020-03-03

@REDPUMPERNICKEL the Matrix proves us it is possible to manipulate those projectors, I meant our four or maybe five senses, so we'll sense the material world as an incorrectly and call it the reality itself. Btw I think I understand what you're trying to say, but I guess you have some issues on tearing the truth and the reality from each other

REDPUMPERNICKEL - 2020-03-03

@Critika [Salihmeylani] I have watched the Matrix. I had to watch it seven times before I understood every detail and even then I discovered more when I read the associated books, "The Matrix and Philosophy I & II". Now I also know something about Jean Baudrillard who wrote the book in which Neo kept his stash (it was "Simulation and Simulacra"). It is my all time favorite film.
Please let me tell you something that I know.
"Reality" is forever beyond our grasp (depending what you think it is).
Why?
I'm glad you ask.
It is because we are thinking things and the entire content of our minds has arrived there via senses and reasonable massage.
One does not see the rock itself, one sees only its surface.
Our eyes translate the light into many thousands of streams of neural signals that encode the scene.
These stream enter the brain.
The flowing coded data is constantly compared with memory and when there's a match the person says "I see a rock" and synthesizes a more complete conception based on experience.
But there is no rock inside the brain, no rock inside the mind, there is only coded pattern, call it thought.
The thought is not the rock but only its reflection. (You like that little word play there? It works because 'think' and 'reflect' are synonyms in English).
And, as you well know, the only kind of things that can exist in minds are thoughts.
Thus we are trapped in a world of thought and if we say that what we see is actual reality we make an obvious error.
Unless of course we assert instead that thought is our reality.
I'm ok with that.
But the really cool aspect of the Matrix are its native denizens, the Oracle, the Architect, the agents, the Merovingian and Persephone, the key maker, little Sati and her parent programs Rama-Kandra and Kamala, etc.
What is the nature of their being? Conscious individuals or mere projections?

Critika [Salihmeylani] - 2020-03-03

@REDPUMPERNICKEL Seeing I am not alone at this is pretty marvelous.
Anyway, since were talking about same subject and even proving same argument in different sayings to each other, why are we still fighting about it?
Oh also, Matrix's native denizens are genius-level A.I.s, they just believe 'words' and their definitions, some kind of classifying like how we contain thoughs, we learn this from Yarns's speech in Matrix Revolutions.

REDPUMPERNICKEL - 2020-03-03

@Critika [Salihmeylani] Well, good, I was having trouble making out your meaning.

john bailey - 2020-03-03

Cipher*
Im sorry I had to

KC Garcia - 2020-02-08

When we fall asleep, we leave the game. When we wake up, we come back

REDPUMPERNICKEL - 2020-02-14

Yep. Put another way...
When we fall asleep, we cease to exist. When we wake up, we exist again.

DEFEATER - 2020-02-18

No. Sleeping is the games mechanism to replenish energy. Yall got it all wrong.

Yashaswi Kulshreshtha - 2020-03-12

"ah you figured it out" therefore you're not in simulation

M 4 Mysterious - 2020-03-21

My sims characters are questioning their existance now...