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I’ve written before about the idea that we might be living in a computer simulation, but the time off work and the weird books I’ve been reading had gotten me thinking about it again.<\/p>\n
I’ve been wondering about dreams.<\/p>\n
I had a dream the other night that a toilet suddenly overflowed with snakes. Most were harmless, but I managed to pin a king cobra – fangs first – into a mattress. It occurred to me that we could use some time travel to prevent this, but it went wrong and in the new reality the cobra bit me in my arm. I killed the snake with a hammer and then wrapped up the bite. Later, I was at a party in an apartment complex that reminded me of the Destiny’s Child “Say My Name<\/a>” video. I found a room where the conversation had faltered and told the people there about the bite. It occurred to me that I should check the wound so I unwrapped it and checked it out. \u00a0The bite had caused a massive infection and the tissues were necrotic and sloughing off. \u00a0If there was a smell, it would have been terrible, I’m sure. \u00a0I cleared the dishes out of the sink and stuck my arm under the water to at least wash it off.<\/p>\n And then I woke up – and checked my arm. \u00a0(I’m fine, by that way.)<\/p>\n So – how would dreams fit into a simulated reality? \u00a0If there’s a player playing the decidedly boring “Game of Anthony” – would they perceive my dreams? \u00a0Is it like some strange YouTube video? \u00a0A pop-up ad? \u00a0I can’t figure… \u00a0unless the simulation is powerful enough that a simulated computer (i.e. my brain) can in turn run it’s own simulation?<\/p>\n It’s possible now to build a working computer inside the Minecraft game using only the built-in tools, so the idea is somewhat plausible.<\/p>\n So, if we don’t really exist and are just part of a massive computer simulation – which would explain 2016 pretty handedly – what does our future hold? \u00a0On the one hand, I feel like maybe I should try to be a little more interesting for my player – and if they don’t exist, then at least a little more interesting for me. \u00a0On the other, maybe I’m just in some idle game – earning coins by repeating the same tasks over and over…<\/p>\n Shit. \u00a0That’s exactly what I’m doing. \u00a0I’m in an idle\/tap game on some trans-dimensional entity’s smart phone.<\/p>\n I’m going to go log off now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve written before about the idea that we might be living in a computer simulation, but the time off work and the weird books I’ve been reading had gotten me thinking about it again. I’ve been wondering about dreams. I had a dream the other night that a toilet suddenly overflowed with snakes. Most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}