Friday, 31 January 2025
Thursday, 30 January 2025
AB. Reality is No-thing
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Do you think you need to change your circumstances to change your life? All you need to do is change your mind and remember love. Accept the light within you, and you’ll light up the world. Believe in this light no matter what. Your conviction and certainty help others remember their own. Your remembrance alone has the power to heal.
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profound quotes from The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein:
On Fear & Faith:
- "When you choose to perceive the world with love, you will find peace."
- "The universe is always guiding you, but it speaks in the language of love, not fear."
- "Your presence is your power."
On Trust & Surrender:
- "The moment you surrender, miracles begin to unfold."
- "When we stop chasing the life we think we need, the universe delivers what’s truly meant for us."
- "We must learn to relax and trust that the universe has our back, even when we don’t understand the plan."
On Manifestation & Energy:
- "Energy flows where your attention goes."
- "The universe works fast when you’re having fun."
- "What you believe, you create. What you focus on expands."
On Love & Connection:
- "Love did not create this fear. Therefore, love does not support it."
- "Joy is the ultimate creator."
- "Happiness is a choice you make, not a destination you reach."
Suffr the little chldrn
The phrase “Suffer the little children†comes from Matthew 19:14 (KJV):
“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.â€
In this context, “suffer†means “allow†or “permit.†So, Jesus is saying, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.â€
This verse highlights Jesus’ love for children and emphasizes childlike faith as an example for believers.
Finding Turiya. Peace. Shantam.
The phrase “peace that passes understanding†comes from Philippians 4:6-7 (KJV):
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.â€
This verse encourages believers to replace anxiety with prayer, trusting that God’s peace—beyond human comprehension—will guard their hearts and minds. It’s a deep, abiding peace that isn’t based on circumstances but on faith Samarpan on God
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The practice of being on a spiritual path isn’t about being the best meditator, or the kindest possible person, or the most enlightened. The practice is about surrendering to love as often as possible.
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U R THE DREAMER OF YR DREAM
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SARANAGATI
Your spiritual path will give you a sense of power you’ve never known before: the power that lies in the experience of surrender.
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Wednesday, 29 January 2025
DMHC. DNEAT. Do not expct anythng
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Presence – Eckhart Tolle's Concept
"Presence" is a central idea in Eckhart Tolle's teachings, particularly in his books The Power of Now and A New Earth. It refers to a state of deep awareness and mindfulness, where one is fully engaged in the present moment, free from distractions of the past and future.
Key Aspects of Presence
Living in the Now
- Presence means shifting attention from past regrets and future anxieties to the current moment.
- The mind tends to dwell on time-based thinking, but real peace is found in the "Now."
Freedom from the Ego
- The ego (the false self) thrives on attachment, comparison, and mental narratives.
- Presence dissolves the ego’s power by removing identification with thoughts and emotions.
Silencing the Overactive Mind
- Most suffering comes from overthinking rather than reality itself.
- By cultivating presence, you observe thoughts without being consumed by them.
Awareness Without Judgment
- Presence is not about stopping thoughts but about witnessing them with detachment.
- You observe your emotions and reactions without resistance or over-analysis.
The Power of Consciousness
- Tolle describes presence as "pure consciousness"—a state beyond thinking.
- When fully present, you experience inner peace, joy, and a deep sense of being.
How to Cultivate Presence
✅ Practice mindfulness – Focus on breathing, sensations, or simple actions.
✅ Observe thoughts without engaging – See them as passing clouds.
✅ Let go of past and future worries – They exist only in the mind.
✅ Embrace stillness – Meditation and solitude help develop presence.
✅ Engage fully in the present – Whether eating, walking, or talking, be 100% there.
Tolle’s idea of presence is a direct path to inner peace and spiritual awakening.
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Tuesday, 28 January 2025
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." ~ Arnold Toynbee
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Your absolute true self is beyond conscious and unconscious states. You are beyond nothing (i.e. unmanifested reality) and everything (i.e. all possibilities). Breath - prana - is the bridge between everything and nothing. Ultimately, you have to go beyond both everything and nothing
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JS. Just trudge your bss in
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Demarcation Between Science & Metaphysics
- The authors propose that metaphysics should be continuous with science, meaning it must be testable and constrained by empirical evidence.
- They reject purely speculative metaphysical debates, arguing that philosophy must adapt to the latest developments in physics and other sciences.
NOT HIS FIRST RODEO
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The phrase "not his first rodeo" is a colloquial expression meaning that someone is experienced or familiar with a situation, implying they have been through something similar before and know how to handle it. It's often used to highlight that a person is seasoned or skilled in a particular area or event, suggesting they aren't new to challenges or complex situations.
For example, if someone is handling a difficult task with ease, you might say, "It's not his first rodeo," to indicate that they have the expertise or experience to manage it.
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Sunday, 26 January 2025
wa “Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home.”
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There was a polemic written by one Srivaishnav a scholar called śata-dūṣani — the 100 defects of Advaita. Another Advaitic scholar wrote a rebuttal entitled śata-bhūṣaṇi - the 100 ornaments of Advaita, in which all the objections were refuted.
The polemic literature is vast and cannot be covered in a Quora post - some respondents are doing a good job, I just want to clarify that without fully studying the topic Advaita and Śankara can be misunderstood.
One of the greatest misunderstandings is his famous saying:– Brahma-satya jagan-mithya – Brahman is true the world is false or an “illusion”. In the very next line he says:– nitya-anitya vastu viveka — one should thus discriminate between the eternal and the temporary.
What he and all the Indian philosophers without exception affirm is that the world of experience is impermanent, unsubstantial and ephemeral. When seen from our personal experience it appears as real but from the perspective of eternity it appears like a mirage.
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you as the ultimate cosmic consciousness are dreaming all types of possible life forms including this body which feels real.
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RD BK BGHORIS- AN UNTOLD STORY
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It is the older than many spiritual sects across India, the world and even across all the other interstellar realms in this solar system. On this earth we are called the ‘AGHORIS’. The entire Aghori sampradaya is divided into two sects, one is called the Mahaghori sect and there is the other called Thoombha sect about which most people are unaware. Tadamba and some of us belong to the Mahaghori sect. Many of us practice the Sheet- Nidra meditation in some of the deepest and rarest of the caves in the Himalayan mountains. Some of these caves are so dangerous that even wild animals, insects and birds namely bats fear to go. By the way, Bhoogoomba is one such cave. Tadamba will be taking you there. It is one of the most beautiful caves you would have ever seen. Once you reach there you will see many senior Aghori sadhus belonging to both the sects living and meditating there. Having said this most of us have our own separate caves in which we stay, like for example the one you are seated in is the one that my Guru permitted to be in for a period of seven thousand years and this means that I have another two thousand years to complete my Sheet-Nidra meditation after which my Guru will decide the next course of action for me. In regards to your curiosity about the way I look let me say this to you. From what I know, there are a few people in this universe who have been born with a pigment that’s different to most of the human entities. It is said that entities like us are not completely human. We possess an alien DNA. You may find this quite difficult to believe but only an arrogant person believes that his planet is the only one in this universe which has life on it. To be honest with you, there are so many realms of varied and vibrant existence and about them only a few are aware. Science will take at least another thousand years to realize this and probably another thousand years to develop ways of connecting and interacting with these entities or as you call, the aliens. For now, the power of meditation is the only means to connect with them but that too takes time, rather it takes many lives of meditation-practice to be able to learn the techniques to connect with the other realms. I believe there is a lot about the Aghoris you will get to see with your own eyes once you stay with them at the Bhoogoomba Cave
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“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.”
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Friday, 24 January 2025
Thursday, 23 January 2025
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PREMEDETATIO MALORUM
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You can find the roots of this method at work everywhere, from ancient philosophy to modern elite military units. The Stoics used an idea called premeditatio malorum (“premeditation of evils”) to prepare. It’s asking yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” By considering the awful possibilities, you make sure you’re ready for them. U.S. Army Special Forces units take time before every mission to use a variant of if-then. Author Dan Coyle explains: “They spend the entire morning going over every possible mistake or disaster that could happen during the mission. Every possible screwup is mercilessly examined, and linked to an appropriate response: if the helicopter crash-lands, we’ll do X. If we are dropped off at the wrong spot, we’ll do Y. If we are outnumbered, we’ll do Z.”" (from "Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong" by Eric Barker)
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BEETJUICE PLUS WALK GOOD FOR BRAIN HEALTH
“The exercise plus [beetroot juice] group developed brain networks that more closely resembled those of younger adults, showing the potential enhanced neuroplasticity conferred by combining exercise and [nitrate-rich vegetables].”
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f A Course in Miracles: “There is a way of living that is not here though it seems to be. You do not change appearance but you smile more frequently. Your forehead is soft and your eyes are serene
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FAILURE IS JUST FEEDBACK
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CONFIDENCE V DOUBT
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Scientific Realism & Anti-Reductionism
- While defending scientific realism (the view that scientific theories describe a mind-independent reality), the book opposes reductionism—the idea that everything can be explained solely in terms of fundamental physics.
- Instead, they advocate for a "rainforest realism" approach, which recognizes the complexity and interdependence of scientific domains.
DMHC
A surefire way to make a bad situation worse is to continue replaying it in your mind.
The damage is done. The only thing that matters now is making the best choice given your current position.
C question. Promissory materialism v Promissory idealism
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When you follow the ego, you become a disciple of the ego. You follow the ego day and night and listen to what the ego says all the time. Even if you have received all the sutra and tantra teachings and have heard them many times, when you follow the ego nothing happens in your mind.
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Theravāda Buddhism is the oldest surviving school of Buddhism, often referred to as the "Teaching of the Elders." It is the dominant form of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. Theravāda emphasizes the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha, preserved in the Pāli Canon, and focuses on individual enlightenment (nirvana) through ethical living, meditation, and wisdom.
Key Aspects of Theravāda Buddhism:
Scripture (Pāli Canon) – The Tipitaka (Three Baskets) consists of the Vinaya Pitaka (monastic rules), Sutta Pitaka (discourses of the Buddha), and Abhidhamma Pitaka (philosophical analyses).
The Four Noble Truths – Central teachings that outline the nature of suffering (dukkha), its cause (craving), its cessation (nirvana), and the Eightfold Path to liberation.
The Eightfold Path – A practical guide for ethical conduct, mental discipline, and wisdom, divided into Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.
Focus on Monasticism – The Theravāda tradition places strong emphasis on the monastic community (Sangha) as the ideal way to attain enlightenment. Lay followers support monks through almsgiving and practicing the Five Precepts (ethical guidelines).
Meditation Practices – Theravāda Buddhism emphasizes Vipassanā (insight meditation) and Samatha (calm-abiding meditation) to develop mindfulness and wisdom.
Arhat Ideal – The ultimate goal in Theravāda is to become an Arhat, someone who has attained enlightenment and is free from the cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara).
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LON come from MOG. Mind of Gd
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Why Are We Driven to Please Others?
The drive to please others is deeply rooted in human psychology and evolution. It stems from social, emotional, and biological factors that influence our behavior. Below are some key reasons why we seek approval and try to make others happy:
1. Evolutionary Survival Instinct
- Early humans depended on social bonds for survival—cooperation increased chances of finding food, protection, and reproduction.
- Being accepted by the group meant safety, while rejection could mean isolation and death.
2. Social Conditioning and Cultural Influence
- From childhood, we are taught that pleasing others brings rewards (praise, love, acceptance).
- Many cultures emphasize harmony, politeness, and self-sacrifice as virtues.
- Schools, workplaces, and relationships reinforce the idea that approval leads to success.
3. The Brain’s Reward System
- Making others happy activates the dopamine reward system, making us feel good.
- Social approval triggers oxytocin ("bonding hormone"), strengthening emotional connections.
4. Fear of Rejection and Conflict Avoidance
- Many people fear disappointing others because rejection can feel painful.
- People-pleasing often arises as a coping mechanism to avoid conflict or criticism.
5. Identity and Self-Worth
- Some individuals tie their self-esteem to how others perceive them.
- They may feel a sense of purpose or validation when they help or please others.
6. Empathy and Emotional Sensitivity
- Those who are naturally empathetic tend to be more affected by others' feelings.
- They may internalize others' emotions and feel responsible for their happiness.
7. Desire for Control and Predictability
- Pleasing others can sometimes be a way to control social dynamics and prevent unpredictable outcomes.
- By keeping people happy, one may feel more secure in relationships.
When People-Pleasing Becomes a Problem
- Loss of Personal Identity – Constantly prioritizing others can lead to neglect of one's own needs.
- Burnout and Resentment – Always saying "yes" can lead to emotional exhaustion.
- Manipulation Risk – Some people may take advantage of people-pleasers.
How to Balance Pleasing Others and Self-Care
- Set healthy boundaries—learn to say “no” without guilt.
- Recognize that self-worth isn’t tied to external validation.
- Focus on authentic relationships, where mutual respect exists.
- Practice self-reflection—are you pleasing out of fear or genuine kindness?
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
3 fad. 3 fruits after dinner. Apple orange berry
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“You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.”
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That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."
~ Chinese Proverb
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
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rock dust alters earths reflectivity
enhanced rock weathering tech ERW
TNY NN X LFT EPGLTTS FOR ETT
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Inhalation is associated with birth and exhalation with death, but the concept of time and age is just for the mind. Some yogic masters have symbolically and poetically expressed this:
“When you inhale, the feminine life force (or consciousness) dances and creates the whole experience of the universe, and when you exhale the whole creation merges back to you. Shakti merges into Shiva. The consciousness merges back to pure awareness.”a
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Do we know for sure?
No, but all the evidence points in that direction. You can discount near death experiences. Near death is not death. While there is anecdotal evidence of children “remembering” past lives, it’s always anecdotal, and non-repeatable. And when you examine the details, you have to factor for the fact that you mind’s prime directive is to keep you alive. So to think straight about this, you have to go to great lengths to compensate for confirmation bias. We don’t want to believe that death is the end.
Your mind is incapable of imagining non-existence. Imagining is a form of observation, and when you try to imagine non-existence, there you are, trying to observe it.
It seems clear to me that death is exactly like the state you were in before you were born. We get this 70–100 year eyeblink of existence, and deeply fear it’s end. But it does, and when it does, our personal participation in the universe ends. Or as George Carlin put it, “Lots of stuff happens after you die. It just doesn’t involve you
Monday, 20 January 2025
RD BK GRF X NRML BROKEN
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Normal Broken is a compassionate and honest guide to navigating grief, written by Kelly Cervantes, who experienced profound loss after the death of her daughter, Adelaide. Rather than offering a structured path to healing, the book acknowledges that grief is messy, nonlinear, and deeply personal.
Key Themes and Insights:
1. Grief Has No Timeline
Cervantes emphasizes that grief doesn’t follow a set schedule. Society often expects people to "move on" quickly, but she reassures readers that it's okay to grieve in their own time and way.
2. Permission to Feel Everything
The book validates all emotions—sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, and even moments of relief or joy. It challenges the idea that there is a "right" way to grieve and encourages self-compassion.
3. The Concept of “Normal Broken”
Cervantes introduces the idea that after loss, people may never return to their previous selves. Instead, they find a new version of normal—one that includes brokenness but also growth.
4. Finding Support and Setting Boundaries
Grief can be isolating, and well-meaning friends or family may not always say the right things. Cervantes offers advice on seeking support while also setting boundaries with those who may not understand.
5. Holding Space for Healing
While healing is possible, it doesn’t mean forgetting or "getting over" the loss. The book encourages readers to embrace both grief and healing as simultaneous, rather than opposing, experiences.
Conclusion
Normal Broken is not a step-by-step grief manual but a companion for those who feel lost in their mourning. With empathy and honesty, Cervantes reassures readers that they are not alone in their pain and that healing, however slow, is a personal and valid journey.
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The hormone most commonly associated with narcissistic traits is testosterone
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5 INDRIYAS
“You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You are hastening the demise of everything that exists, bringing forward by your very existence the arrival of time known as the heat death, when all stars have died, all black holes have evaporated away and the entirety of creation is a uniform bath of photons incapable of storing a single bit of information about the glorious adolescence of our wonderful Universe.”
― Forces of Nature
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“Perhaps we should not be too surprised that nature sometimes appears counterintuitive to a tribe of observant, carbon-based ape descendants roaming around on the surface of a rocky world orbiting an unremarkable middle-aged star at the outer edge of the Milky Way galaxy.”
― Why Does E=mc²?
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A. SS. Non res
It reinforces personal identity, which is the apparent or illusory self.
Whereas, nonresistance is the ever-present "perspective" or "state" of the true Self.
What seems to us as the practice of nonresistance is actually the nature of the true Self.
When we practice nonresistance, we are BEING the Self, the nature of which is total allowance
Creative maladjustment. Satyagraha
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SIMULATION HYPOTHESIS
To be clear - I don’t claim that the simulation hypothesis is true - in fact, my gut feel is that it isn’t. But there are things out there that DO point in that direction.
The simulation hypothesis is “unfalsifiable” - we can never prove that we AREN’T being simulated because the simulation can be arbitrarily good - and any flaws in it would simply look like the kinds of quirky things that happen in quantum physics all the time. Proving it’s true is incredibly difficult - because, again, no matter how weird and quirky things get (and we know that they do!) - this can all be attributed to “how the universe works” - and we can put together elaborate theories to explain those quirks.
Let me point out a couple of simple examples:
I happen to have been a video game and simulation programmer for most of my career - so if a universe simulator were to be written - I’m the kind of guy who’d be writing it…and the kinds of short-cuts that I’d take are the kinds of things we should be looking out for.
If I were designing a “universe simulator” - I’d want to distribute the workload across many computers. I’d probably do something like Linden Labs did with their “Second Life” simulation - which is to assign one computer to every such-and-such volume of space. Perhaps I’ll have one computer for every cubic parsec of space. There would be an ungodly number of these computers - but hey - I live in a universe one level up from ours - the laws of physics are probably different there - so maybe I can build a very large number of computers very cheaply.
Now - when something happens inside one of those cubic parsecs that impacts events in one of the neighboring cubic parsec - I’ll need those two computers to exchange information about the event. So if a star explodes in one parsec-cube - then all of the surrounding parsec-cubes will need to be told that there is a transfer of light, gamma rays, etc.
Fine so far…but hold on a moment - how many computers have to get that information? Well, in theory, ALL of them do - a world that’s a thousand parsecs away would need to obtain light from the supernova…so I might have to share that information across a few BILLION computers!
Argh…that’s a real pain in the butt to do.
Ooohhhh! I know - why don’t I make the speed of light be REALLY slow - and have it be “The Cosmic Speed Limit” - and not allow anything - not even information - to travel faster than that!
Now, the computer in which the star explodes only has to tell it’s immediate neighbors - and over the course of a few years, they can tell their neighbors - and so forth.
Limiting the speed of light drastically reduces “latency requirements” and makes my simulation MUCH easier to put together.
So … we could argue that the extremely weird fact that there is a cosmic speed limit is some sort of a hint that maybe we’re in a simulation!
In case you think that’s unlikely - I once worked for a company that made a multiplayer online game (World of Tanks) - which (just like Linden Labs) assigned one server computer to every square kilometer of the gaming area (it may have been more than 1km - I forget). The servers updated their game world 60 times per second - and communicated back and forth between themselves at the end of each update cycle.
So when you fired a gun or launched a missile, it could not possibly travel faster than 1 kilometer per 16 milliseconds. That conveniently meant that every server computer only had to pass on information to its immediate neighbors in each update cycle - and if a missile needed to travel more than a couple of kilometers - then it would take 16 milliseconds to cross each kilometer.
In effect, that game had a “speed of light” limitation of 60 kilometers per second.
Would the Albert Einstein of that simulated game world think:
“Oh wow! There is this weird cosmic speed limit - isn’t physics strange!?!”
… or would he just assume:
“There is a weird cosmic speed limit - we must be living in a simulation.”?
It’s hard to say … but in our case, we’ve been happily accepting the finite speed of light as a “Law of physics” for about 100 years now … and in all that time, we’ve never once thought that this “proves” the simulation hypothesis.
Then, we have the expansion of space. This is amazingly useful to our hypothetical hyper-programmer. Because space slowly expands, we cannot ever see things beyond about 42 billion lightyears. So between that and the finite speed of light, we have a clever way to pretend to simulate an infinite, unbounded universe with only a finite number of computers.
Many video games have a very hard time covering up what happens at the edges of their game world.
Then, there is “The Big Bang” - which is also very useful as a starting point for the simulation. Starting it with a zero sized singularity - and having that create both space and time - provides all sorts of conveniences. It means that the universe didn’t have to be created in every detail in a way that would be completely invisible to observers within it. In fact, if “creationism” were true - that would be concrete proof that we were living in a simulation … but a very poorly implemented one. Starting with the Big Bang makes simulation very consistent - with no weird flaws due to inconsistent initial conditions.
Real video games often suffer from that exact problem. In one video game I worked on at Midway Games, we started the game with simulated people randomly placed in the game world. But once in a while, one of them would be randomly dropped into a location which they could never possibly have gotten into in the real world - and they’d be trapped there forever! If the inhabitants of that game were intelligent, then events like that would clearly demonstrate that they lived in a simulation.
Starting with the Big Bang prevents you from accidentally making mistakes of that kind because everything evolves consistently from an informationless initial state.
Of course the finite speed of light, the expansion of space, the Big Bang, and quantum weirdnesses, by themselves, prove nothing. Even things like quantized properties of the universe and things like the “uncertainty principle” which might be hiding “roundoff errors” can also be interpreted as a convenience for the programmers OR as “just the way the universe works”.
So we can pile up things that suggest that the universe MIGHT be simulated - but we can’t ever truly prove it … and we certainly can’t ever DISPROVE it.
This problem is a lot like “The Existence of God” … you can’t disprove it - and there isn’t (yet) any convincing evidence that proves it … so we should be at least agnostic on this topic … veering towards an atheistic (a-simulation-ist) position.
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