The Belief That We're In A Computerized Simulation Seems Biblical

Now, before you jump the gun, let me inform you ahead of time that I am not a Christian but rather an agnostic. I'm only using the word "Biblical" in a metaphoric way herein.

There is a group of scientists that actually believe that we're all living in a computerized simulation. When you hear the flat-Earthers run their mouths, you can always laugh it off. However, these are educated scholars that are supporting this simulation theory. Below is a video about it.

Scientists Continue To Debate With One Another On Whether We Are Living In A Computerized Simulation

You would never think that Elon Musk of all people would support this theory about our universe being inside a computerized simulation, but he does. Now, when you look at the points that some scientists make about no computer system being large enough to replicate an entire universe in the form of a simulation, you have to suspect that perhaps these scientists that are all in favor of the simulation theory may be in the Bible-thumper closet. It only makes sense that they would be.

As an agnostic, I don't subscribe to any religion. However, I don't completely rule out the existence of a superior being that watches over us and influences events around us. It could be that if there really is a God, he likely would be the one controlling the entire computerized simulation within which we are allegedly living. In that event, he would have to be the one to have created the computerized simulation for us.

The world is too much of a rat race for any of us really to be concerned about whether or not we're living in a computerized simulation. We have responsibilities and obligations to think about. We cannot be worried about bizarre ideologies like this one.

Nevertheless, this simulation theory brings to mind the block universe. No, it's not the same concept, but it would appear to have the same effect on humanity. That is, if we're really living in a computerized simulation, we don't have as much free will as we think we do.

Perhaps every event in this same computerized simulation is running on auto-pilot for the most part, and we have some agency in how everything happens and turns out. However, if some higher being is controlling the computerized simulation, then that person has complete control over what they want to happen in our lives and what they don't want to happen in our lives. The block universe has that same kind of Calvinist trait to it, so to speak.

If all of us are really living in a computerized simulation, then I would not see the harm in scientists inventing a computerized simulator that would allow people to experience milestones that they missed out on in life. Perhaps one would want to know what it was like to have had a girlfriend back in middle school and high school, and a computerized simulator would allow them to experience those same events in their lives without, of course, breaking the law.

Perhaps one would want to know what it would have been like to be married and start a family, and a computerized simulator could provide them with that same experience. Even to become a Hollywood star or a rock artist.

Mental-health professionals may advise against such scientific innovations in that they deliver fabricated milestones in life. However, if we're really living inside a computerized simulation, then it would appear that mental-health professionals would serve no real purpose in that event inasmuch as nothing would be real anyway.

So many years ago I saw an episode of The Twilight Zone that originally aired in the 1980s. In that episode titled "Dreams for Sale," a woman named Jenny (played by Meg Foster) is in some kind of computerized simulator that allows her to enjoy a picnic with a husband and two daughters that are supposed to be her family. The plot suggests that her husband and twin daughters do not exist in real life. Eventually, she dies because of a malfunction in the computerized simulator that causes it to short-circuit.

This same episode of The Twilight Zone was ahead of its time in that it was released before the Internet became public and back when home computers were only beginning to appear in people's households. In any event, it appears that this same plot alerted us about scientific innovations that would later become a major part of our lives once computer technology was to evolve to this same level of advancement.

What are your thoughts? Do you believe that we're living in a computerized simulation or is it utter nonsense? Let me know in the comments section below.

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