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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It makes no sense for it to be a simulation like a computer simulation. It’s a simulation like a dream is a simulation. Everything in the universe you observe is you. Waking up from the dream is realising this, and realising nothing exists, just being.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean that one of us isn't real?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Like a dream, you are just me. The floor I walk is me. The air I breathe is me. Everyone I meet, everything I feel, is just me. Nothing is real except I.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I took about 10 hits of acid once and had a conversation with something that seemed to be "God" or a close approximation to it, and it told me something similar. It told me that everything is connected, that we're all one, that we're all of us different aspects of each other, or something like that. This was 20+ years ago and I was zonked out of my fucking head that night.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I followed you (Egg Theory) right up until that last line.
Slash dot? The tech website is the only real thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I, me 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Damn, was really hoping there was some deeper stuff I was missing. So you're a subscriber to Egg Theory then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's called that from that little story about god talking to a recently deceased dude with the end result being that this universe is an egg?

Awesome. I guess I'm an egg theory subscriber.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It’s not called the Egg Theory. Its called Advaita Vedanta and it’s the oldest religion/metaphysics we have written records for.

And it can indeed get pretty deep. You should read Shankara‘s commentaries on the Vedas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So I'm still just having sex with myself? I should have known it was too good to be true.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

We're all only having sex with you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Welcome to the world and cosmology of The Elder Scrolls Games in general and Morrowind in special.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I think that if life is a simulation, it's tech assisted dreaming, letting one dial in specifics for consistent experiences