| bonzobanana said: We only live short lives before the icy hand of death pulls us into oblivion, I don't think we should exaggerate our importance. The universe pretty much doesn't exist because matter and energy are such an insignificant amount of the universe its almost like matter and energy are imperfections in a non-existent universe. I mean the universe is approaching 100% empty and every atom is approaching 100% empty etc, the space occupied by anything in the universe is utterly insignificant. Many stars have had a billion years head start on the Sun and yet we see no billion year old civilisations flying about between the stars. The universe seems pretty dead, strangely so. A billion year old civilisation would easily have time to populate our galaxy and possibly many other galaxies yet we see and hear nothing. What it really sounds like is someone being taken out of a virtual reality existence back into reality, maybe the body needs medical attention and needs waking up. Maybe normally when this happens people aren't conscious but occasionally there is an issue and people remember parts of being woken up. The blinding light is just eyes adjusting after being closed a long time. Of course no indication of a medical procedure in their virtual existence as that happened in reality. I just feel there is the possibility of us existing in a VR experience without us knowing it. Maybe life is boring in the future and people fancy going back to a simple life for a while. Also it would explain the strange absence of alien life elsewhere (not part of the simulation). In which case we are our own gods because our reality is 100% a creation of future humans which we actually are but don't know it. When you think about how VR has developed in only a few decades it certainly isn't going to be that impressive to create a VR world that we believe is 100% reality. It would also explain stuff like people who believe they existed in a previous time because they did actually exist by being another person in a VR simulation previously. My point is the theory that we are in a shared virtual reality actually works really well on many levels and explains many things. So we may in-fact be our own gods. |
We can see the potential vast technological future and where we could end up with ease at this point in time already. Not to say that's the only possibility either. What do you do in a future where AI basically does almost everything better? A future where maybe only the top 1% of humanity at that point in time, is actually useful intellectually? We have a lot of "useless" people as it is already, just imagine something like 25 billion useless humans on Earth alone. Plugging them all into "the matrix", assuming their own choice, may not be the worst idea, especially if only some of your brain function was used for the sim and the rest was used for other more useful processing, like while sleeping for example.
Maybe in the future we can mess with time in the sense that an hour in reality is a lifetime here, and this is just a game or ride. Maybe WW3 already happened and we destroyed everything, and we're all underground in cryosleep living here in the digital world until the time is right to be thawed. Maybe we're in cryosleep because we're all on ships headed for a new distant planet, because Earth is toast or just full. Maybe this is jail in the future, and we're all simply "doing time", a 100 year sentence.
On a separate note, in a future where almost anything is possible, I would most certainly like to go back in time, at least a few times, and make changes in my life and see how it ends up. Hopefully being able to "unplug" at any time, just in case. Which also makes me think that's what this could be, with the knowledge of the past being subliminal, which explains deja vu, but you have to remain until you "naturally" die to "unplug".
Then again, maybe it's all real as it get's and we're just curious creatures.
Should we do it? This universe created stars, which created planets, which created us, so whatever we create, is par for the course.
PS1 - ! - We must build a console that can alert our enemies.
PS2 - @- We must build a console that offers online living room gaming.
PS3 - #- We must build a console that’s powerful, social, costs and does everything.
PS4 - $- We must build a console that’s affordable, charges for services, and pumps out exclusives.
PRO -%-We must build a console that's VR ready, checkerboard upscales, and sells but a fraction of the money printer.
PS5 - ^ -We must build a console that’s a generational cross product, with RT lighting, and price hiking.
PRO -&- We must build a console that Super Res upscales and continues the cost increases.
