The Simulation Theory and Denials of Reality

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When some black-clad edgelord says we live in a simulation. I ask ‘of what?’

Is it COVID that has prompted this denial of reality? I don’t think it helped.

I think the simulation theorists are suffering the same malaise as what has lead to wokeness. They’ve been sitting comfortably for far too long.

As soon as things start going ‘wrong’ in society, such as the recession of 2008, or Brexit, or Trump, and recently COVID, you see the comments; We’re in a simulation.

Why was this sentiment never expressed before the Matrix films? When did the simulation begin? How do we know we’re in one? How much computng power is required? Who is running it?

if you believe in this, why not believe in God? After all, you can’t look outside the simulation to find the answers, why not just chalk it up as God did it? If the natural world is all in a simulation, the creator of that simulation is by our definition, supernatural.

The simulation theory begets more questions than it answers. Is the simulation one of many nested in a recurring sequence, like seeing yourself in a corridor of mirrors, but unable to tell if you are the real one. In the sequence of historical events, was it activated from a particular one, say 9/11? If so, why?

Just like with New Age beliefs, the simulation advocates mangle physics to support their theory. With the New Agers it’s quantum mechanics and exploiting quantum phenomena to justify the near-impossible (or as Nobel-prize winner Murray Gell-Man called their interpretation, quantum flapdoodle).
With the sims it’s the Holographic principle. Unfortunately, they refer to it without having any idea what it means; It relates to spatial dimensions within physics, and has nothing to do with The Matrix. Pointing to a possible multiverse isn’t helpful either. Why does a multiverse or multiple universes occupying time and space prove we live in a computer?

Returning to Sars-Cov 2, the upheaval it caused was not unprecedented in history, as the second world war happened, as did the Cold War. You can look at the influenza pandemic of 1918-1921 to see real upheaval.
As a child I lived under a far greater danger than Covid or the one Putin presents. In the early eighties, the Soviet Union had an estimated 3 gigatons-worth of nuclear firepower aimed at Britain alone. Had that kicked off, would the simulation reset, or continue into simulating a dull post-apocalyptic wasteland?

Buzzwords like the ‘new normal’ have helped fuel this paranoia though, and the general mistrust created by governments and denial of evidence around the lab leak theory, as well as poor trial methodology in labs testing vaccine efficacy (published by the BMJ and then denied or fact check by the BBC and Facebook) have shaken some people out of their endless consumerist sleepwalking.

History hasn’t finished. We are still in the world where stuff happens. Liberal democracy is evidently not the last word. This rippling across the fabric of society used to happen all the time throughout human history. The difference now is technology has allowed a much more heightened sensitivity.

This is not the new normal. Upheaval is normal. The last 30 years is abnormal, but only in the West. Strife has continued and wars waged throughout the nineties, and in Europe. Isn’t it telling how useless our media have become when they wring their hands and say the conflict in Ukraine is the first war on European soil since 1945.
What happened in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s?

Again, failings of institutions and their corruption have not exactly bred trust in the ‘reality’ presented to us. Conspiracies are rampant (some are useful), but we are not in the Matrix.

If we were, and a few people noticed, wouldn’t the programmer/s simply reset our memories? The media may try to do this with convenient omissions and forgetfulness, but a lot is down to incompetence, although during COVID, there was a lot of malice in the form of arrogance and hypocrisy, that sort of behaviour by the ruling class – politicians, media and academics – has sometimes led to revolution in the past.

If a revolution did occur in one of the Anglophone nations with strict regulations on COVID and Carbon emissions, would the sim advocates say it is programmed, or join in?

Given their complacency and disbelief in the ongoing upheavals of history, my guess is that they’d hide under the bed and say there’s no place like home.

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53 thoughts on “The Simulation Theory and Denials of Reality”

  3. I have never heard anyone say that we are in a simulation.

    I am sure that I would have remembered as I would not have had a clue what the fuck they were on about.

  6. It is not a simulation this is the real thing. More countries joining BRICS, the US losing its economic dominance (a fucking good thing in my book). Our institutions have fucked themselves in their own arses. Covids oppression, enhanced censorship, rewriting of history…all too real. We are metaphorical toast. ‘Damn you all to hell.’

    • I’m confused by the nom
      Confused about realities
      Confused about conspiracy theory
      Confused about quantum flapdoodle.

      I’m going the pub to sort myself out.

      Have a good bank holiday cunters
      And as always no hair pulling, spitting or fighting 👍

  7. Well if it is a simulation then it’s not a very good one is it?

    As far as I can remember I’ve never got taters deep into Kelly Brook.

    Those science cunts need to sort it out sharpish.

  9. I’ll be questioning reality tomorrow afternoon after I take 4g of shrooms at 2pm.

    • Notva DMT adventure? I’m sure half of this simulation guff is thought up by cunts doing too much DMT.

  10. I know a daft cunt who probably believes this.

    He’s a David Icke fan. He’s been to a few of his expensive 7 hour rambles, I mean shows.

    Worst thing about him is his smugness. The mad cunt (yes, he’s a bit of a druggie) is convinced he’s right.

    Lizard people. The moon being a hologram. He buys all that shite.

    I only know him as a mate of a mate and I can’t stand the cunt. But he is entertaining for his nuttiness…for about ten minutes.

    He didn’t like it once when, after getting bored with his bollocks, I said “You know, if this was the 70s, I’d be calling the men in white coats. And you know what? After listening to you for five minutes they’d fucking take you.”

    Oh, everyone is a sheeple and all lol.

    Mad twat. Pin the cunt down and give him 10,000 volts to the noggin.

    Shock some sense into ‘im.

    • Icke is top draw entertainment. I’d book him for children’s parties, although Sooty and Sweep woukd be top of the bill.

      I bet he’d hate it.

  11. I personally think not but still more likely to be the case than the shit that is written in every single holy book

  13. Just saying.
    The Trotters are in the third division, all because they played in the loft at Nat’s house.

  14. ‘Quantum flapdoodle’
    I’ll use that instead of you’re ‘talking bollocks’ next time i hear a friend talking nonsense, like one who believes in the flat earth.
    I’ll either sound like a cunt or a genius.

    I know i’m not in a simulation because i can’t dodge bullets, always getting killed in call of duty.

  15. Good nom.

    Interesting you bring up the Yugoslavia/Ukraine parallel.

    Prior to losing the gift of speech in a pub with a friend yesterday, we were discussing the many similarities between the two conflicts.

    Ukraine is very similar in that it’s a proxy tear up between Russia and NATO. It’ll probably end the same way with the division of the country, with the Donbas being some sort of No Man’s Land.

    Back to my hangover. Over and out, Cunters.

  18. All this simulation nonsense is just an excuse to hide from the real world, get a job and do some work and contribute you big girl’s blouses.

  19. I love this stuff. It’s not a cunt at all. At worst, it encourages one to think. My current favourite is this one –

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

    Another is that all the information available in a four-dimensional universe is contained at any temporal instant on the two dimensional surface of its notional boundary. Probably works better for black holes than our universe, but it’s still fun.

    You can safely consign such ideas to the woo box if they are impossible to falsify, like the existence of God. A lot of them are falsifiable*, however, while not actually conflicting with current understanding.

    Explanatory note from explorable. com:

    “For many sciences, the idea of falsifiability is a useful tool for generating theories that are testable and realistic. Testability is a crucial starting point around which to design solid experiments that have a chance of telling us something useful about the phenomena in question. If a falsifiable theory is tested and the results are significant, then it can become accepted as a scientific truth.

    The advantage of Popper’s idea is that such truths can be falsified when more knowledge and resources are available. Even long accepted theories such as Gravity, Relativity and Evolution are increasingly challenged and adapted.

    The major disadvantage of falsifiability is that it is very strict in its definitions and does not take into account the contributions of sciences that are observational and descriptive.”

    • I like some esoteric ideas such as accelerationism but the simulation theory is a bit derivative and naff.

  20. I was staring out of the window yesterday evening and the whole view pixelated and scrambled.

    A glitch in the matrix perhaps.

    Or maybe a side effect of the 5th bottle of Henry Weston’s.

  22. ….”Is it COVID that has prompted this denial of reality? I don’t think it helped.”
    I agree with that, lock down and “working” from home have a lot to answer for, cunts idling there time away on the interweb and the echo chamber of social media.
    Critical thinking has gone out of the window now, especially as Universities have become reality deniers.
    I despair.
    Excellent nom.
    Good day all.

  23. Perhaps we’re all living in a perpetual dream state and have yet to wake up to see our true reality. And I’m not just talking about a few hours in a dream, but decades!

    For example, some dreams are so vivid that they feel and look real to the point of how can you tell if you’re not actually in that particular reality? It’s only when you wake up that you realise you’re not and that you’re back in what you think is reality but only because you’ve woken up from a dream that felt like it was reality.

    My point is, when you wake up how do you know you’re still not in a dream or some kind of simulation? It is indeed like looking at yourself in mirrors – where does it all end?

    What people need to be aware of is the encroachment of AI in our daily lives. We’re becoming far too dependent on technology, especially smartphones and tablets. We’re all glued to them as they feed us the information we crave. Our brains, therefore, become less active because there’s nothing to think about. We don’t need to know what 2+2 is when Google will do it for us, thus making our intelligence even more redundant.

    But how do we know Google is telling us the truth? How do we know 2+2 = 4 just because Google tell us? Will people start to question whether 2+2 really does equal 4. But if we’re too thick to know how can we say Google is right or wrong?

    That’s a simple example of the AI mindset we’re all letting ourselves embrace into. There’s a telling scene in The Matrix (roughly 30 minutes in) whereby Neo become covered in what looks like liquid metal before being sucked into the Matrix. Well perhaps that is a good example of how we are being covered into a AI form of liquid metal to the point where we’re totally submerged in it, totally dependent on it, letting our brains degenerate as we’re fed information that we have no idea is true or not.

    You are the One!

    • Good comment. What’s needed is a reaffirmation of the humanist and scientific values the West has prided itself on since the ancient Greeks, and reaffirmed in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Instead of which, people are becoming more stupid by the day.

  24. The idea that we live in a simulation is bunkum. But it has a long philosophical tradition. The 18th century philosopher Bishop Berkely for instance argued that all reality is effectively mental, created in the mind of God. It’s a short step from that to say that it’s created in the mind of an omnipotent super-computer, as we no longer believe in God, so something has to take his place.

    The simulation argument assumes it’s possible to reproduce all our observations about the material world using not the natural laws that physicists have confirmed to extremely high precision, but using a different, underlying algorithm, which the programmer is running. But nobody knows how to reproduce General Relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics from a computer algorithm running on some sort of super-computer. You can approximate the laws that we know with a computer simulation – we do this all the time – but if that was how nature actually worked, we could see the difference.

    Another issue is that this super-computer needs to be able to simulate a lot of conscious beings, and these conscious beings will themselves try to simulate conscious beings, and so on. This means you have to compress all the information that we think the universe contains. What kind of computer code can do that? What algorithm can identify conscious beings and their intentions and then quickly fill in the required information without ever producing an observable inconsistency?

    The simulation hypothesis, therefore, just isn’t a serious scientific argument. It’s bollocks, invented by cunts for the consumption of conspiracy theorist cunts and Matrix nerds.

    • Throw in some Quantum, some Zen and a few names like Wittgenstein and you have a classic Facebook pseud-fest

  26. Simulation theory isn’t just some tin foil hat fantasy spread across the internet by conspiracy theorists, it’s the product of some pretty serious physicists. They even consider it possible we are a simulation within a simulation.

    There’s also a theory that particles behave differently depending on whether or not they are being observed.

    Oh yes and according to physics atoms can’t make solid objects.

    Intelligent design v accidental and against the odds evolution of life from a puddle somewhere where life created itself.

    Not to forget that the entirety of the known multiverse is based on a singular formula and our DNA is basically computer code.

    Personally I’d rather believe intelligent design is a possibility than believe that there is nothing apart from eastenders and taxes.

  28. And the “moon landings were faked” kicked off with the release of the film Capricorn One.

  29. Einstein’s theory of relativity accounts for the following.
    You walk along the platform to your carriage. On the way, you see plastic crates of that 5-star delicacy, the Travellers’ Fare sarnie, being loaded onto the buffet. You go to the counter when buffet is announced as open, by which time there is a massive queue. You wait an age, pay through the nasal cavities for said sarnies and nasty, gassy lager, and the sarnies are dry, with curling edges.
    This is because things age faster when travelling.
    If that’s what it does to sarnies, consider what it could do to your nads.

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