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« on: October 28, 2018, 03:07:03 PM »
See Tom Campbell's videos on the double slit experiment. That's how I got started with his stuff in the first place. His arguments are compelling. It certainly appears that mankind can't have simultaneous knowledge about certain things because the software of the virtual world we exist in wasn't written that way. I don't know whether to be afraid or comforted. It seems that we all have free will, but everything is probabilistic and it's impossible to know 100% about anything. I find the possibility of a virtual reality very interesting. I've never been much of a video game player because it was addicting to me. I started playing video games once and didn't do some important things that had to be done on time. After learning my lesson I put the games away and never went back. My only thoughts now are time spans. Allegedly, mankind has existed for millions of years and has had a natural progression toward better and better things over that time. If we are in a virtual reality the time perception of whose video game we are in must be a lot shorter, or they just can exist for an infinite amount to time. One of the first video games out there was Kingdom. I played that on one of the first commercial personal computers out there. You set up all the variable about your 'Kingdom'. Planted so many acres of corn, dug so many wells, spent some of your gold for weapons, and took some of your concubines out of the field and gave them certain other duties. After you had all your variables set up the game would generate a random number and that would effect the outcome of your kingdom. I remember something like 'the Huns would attack, a herd of locusts would eat half your field crop, wells would go dry, concubines would run off, ect. You then had to analyze the new situation and reallocate all your resources. Isn't that about what's happening on a continuous basis in the real world?