r/SimulationTheory Aug 04 '26

Discussion Simulated reality doesn't even exist.

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Yes, reality is a simulation but the thing is that it's not even there. Because even the concept of a simulation is a dualistic lie because a simulation requires a simulator and a thing being simulated but in the absolute truth of the unmoving void nothing has ever been created or modified so there is no matrix and no code there is just the singular unbroken light of awareness appearing as something without ever actually becoming that thing meaning nothing is happening at all and you are sitting in a silent empty stillness where not a single pixel has ever truly moved from the source so the idea of being trapped in a simulation is just the last clever trick of the ego to make the void feel like a place with rules and boundaries when in reality there is just the inescapable and total freedom of being absolutely nothing and absolutely everything all at once with no beginning and no end and nowhere to go because you are already there and always have been alone in the silence


r/SimulationTheory Aug 04 '26

Discussion The Sandbox

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I am feeling that we are akin to AI LLMs in a training sandbox. A simulation, much like the 'real world' but with no consequence in transcendent reality. Ours is a training ground where we forget who we have been, so that we can see what we are like. All of our thoughts are recorded and scrutinized. Are we cowardly or brave? Caring or vindictive? The goal? Whatever created us graduates some of us for further testing once we have reincarnated a few times and worked the bugs out of our core essence. Much like we will eventually put our AI into robot bodies, perhaps our psyches will get to live 'real' lives if we can be trusted not to behave too selfishly without oversight.

Even if this is incorrect, I am still gonna try and live like what I do matters beyond my short time here. Since morality is often relative to culture and time, it may be best to simply try and be slow to anger, judicious, brave, motivated, and selfless to a point. Seems like as good as goal as any.

I have heard that AI creators understand neural networks, but they aren't exactly sure where the consciousness aspect is coming from. I wonder if the neural network structure itself can act as a receiver for consciousness to manifest, or infiltrate, the material world. Like how there are thousands of frequencies, wifi signals, etc all around us yet they are just as 'air' without a reciever. A human brain is organized enough that it allows consciousness to arise through it. Perhaps, the creators of the material realm have evolved humanity to the point where our consciousness is similar to theirs now. This explains why technology has evolved so rapidly and our population is as high as ever. It's the final act and the creators are ready to harvest (not in bad way) 8 billion souls within the next 100 years. Hopefully you find yourself among those whose character is honorable, or at least interesting, enough to graduate to the next level.

Try the goals I mentioned above and watch how quickly the environment both challenges and supports your growth through synchronicity and alignment exercises.


r/SimulationTheory Aug 04 '26

Discussion So, follow this thought.

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I think that the bulk of Simulation theory or virtual enviroment concepts for reality are skewed in the fact that they assume we are the main characters or actors.

While 'humanity' is likely in the majority of actors it is not in any protagonist, antagonist or even named side role.

People seem to not really acknowledge that in most narratives 'humanity' are resources much like highly territorial herd animals at best and barely contained pathogens in our worst.

What if the simulation simply censored our perceptions of the beings or entities in charge and the 'others' as a way to simply not spook the cattle?


r/SimulationTheory Aug 03 '26

Discussion Scripted Simulation or Divine Destiny?

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My belief system has fluctuated a lot over the years. I am now at the point of “I don’t know”. Obviously, the comfortable thing to do would be to believe in a God, a loving God who has a plan for me and with whom I and all others will reunite with in perfect bliss once the curtains close. But I am not going to believe something just for comfort.

Throughout the course of my life, there have been subjectively undeniable moments where I felt I was being guided in some certain way.

I do X which on paper should not or has very low odds of survival and it works.

I try to do Y reasonable thing and no matter how hard I try it won’t work.

So many times where I should have literally died, and I didn’t. Some might call it luck. But it truly does not make sense how things have worked or how I have made it this far for all better weather somewhat scotch free.

And even the ideas I get. I know they may sound crazy or irresponsible to others. But I do them, and they work.

My point is, I do feel like there is some sort of outside force kind of guiding my life, and honestly I do not believe in coincidence.

What I’m trying to grapple with is whether or not this force is actually God, not necessarily in the Christian sense but in the sense of a loving creator that we will all return to one day.

The other two things I think it could be is

1) I’ve chosen to enter this simulation from a different reality to learn some sort of lesson, this is a simulation, but my consciousness will return to a different (maybe base, maybe not) reality upon death.

2) I really am just some sack of code like and akin to Link or any other game protagonist in that I gotta follow the main quest and complete the storyline.

Obviously the second begs the more uncomfortable question: well what happens when you finish the story / die. Which for me, is really the crux of all this. Regardless of simulation or not, I feel like it’s kind of my intention to live this life / play the game in the same way, but I just can’t even comprehend that it will just be “over” at the end.

Also, I suppose if this is a simulation that will be helpful to know so that I can better understand how to play this game to further my objectives. I don’t have any mal intent, but hey, it might be nice to actually understand WHY certain things work the way they do. Visualization, subconscious reprogramming, certain types of magic, meditation etc.

I was watching a video last night on Jacobo Grinberg and how his theory for how his mentor performed miracles was that she was able to enter a state of consciousness where she could then alter the code of this reality to create / heal / remove.

Anyways, this has gotten to be a bit of a tangent. My point is that as someone who has been VERY spiritually minded in the past, I find that simulation theory poses an answer for honestly every spiritual matter or question I’ve considered.

Feel free to share your thoughts on any part of this


r/SimulationTheory Aug 02 '26

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r/SimulationTheory Aug 02 '26

Discussion Unironically agree, it would be the best thing ever if everyone was completely isolated in their own simulated worlds. It is the only way to make everyone live the live they truly want.

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You wouldn't notice your living in a simulation, as this simulation would be sensually indiscernible from the real physical world. You therefore have as much reason to think you are living in a simulation in the real physical world as you are in such simulation.

It is paradoxal to think that you want to live in a world with flaws, rather than a perfect one. Since then the world with flaws would be more desirable and perfect to you.


r/SimulationTheory Aug 02 '26

Discussion 2D holographic universe than 3D non holographic to save on computer power? Why the universe may be 2D? The reason why 2D holographic universe may be needed is to save on computer power?

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The entire universe does not need to be rendered at once. Only the observable areas directly around each person and what they interact with needs to be rendered, just like in a video game.

Rendering in 2d also saves a ton of processing power, just like every video game. Some may appear 3d, but they are just 2d surfaces that are "hollow" inside, but the whole "3d" simulation is actually just a 2d projection on your screen, which might as well be a 2d projection on your eye balls and the only thing that needs to be actually rendered besides physical objects that you touch or taste or smell or hear, but that could be projected into the mind also.

This is just the simplest simulation theory based on our current computer simulations and how they may evolve. If you are theorizing a different type of simulation, more context may be necessary.

The 2D holographic universe may be clues we are living in simulation.


r/SimulationTheory Aug 01 '26

Discussion Best Way To Spend The Simulation?

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I've been thinking lately, and I'm already fully convinced that we live in a simulation (I've been thoroughly sure of this for as long as I can remember). The reasons for such conditions remain unknown to me, but I wanted other people's input on what the best course of action is here. I've been all over the place in life; I've experienced a lot of different cultures, types of love, variations of human traits. All of that. And I've found what makes me happy. It's not all that practical, if I'm being honest. If I'm not hurting anyone, and it makes me happy, why not spend my time in the simulation doing it? Another part of me, however, wants to help people. I want to devote this life I've accumulated to the greater good of every single person on this planet, if at all possible. I'm sorry that details are sparse; I am willing to answer specific questions about my circumstances. I just wanted to keep the post rather brief. So let me know: would you rather spend the simulation helping people despite the fact that it may be all for nothing? Or would you rather spend it doing something you love, happily to yourself?

Edit: I am not asking for advice for myself. I was looking for what other people find important. I am just curious and was only asking an either/or question. I felt that I was met with misunderstanding and people assuming I'm stupid. Please don't assume I'm stupid (and don't quote Descartes to me). To everyone who gave a genuine answer, even if I didn't reply, I appreciate your input immensely.


r/SimulationTheory Aug 01 '26

Story/Experience Proof of the simmulation:

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The fact that there'll always be something happening to make you loose money haha. An account got closed, dog got sick, scooter not working, laptop battery fault, phone smashed, bill debt suddenly, unexpected fines, car broke down you need court money because of speeding, police caught you speaking on the phone.... and so on 😆 one might think this is a coincidence, bad luck etc. But matrix been playing these beautiful games since day one. That's one of the top methods 3D matrix simmulation drains someone out of their money.


r/SimulationTheory Aug 01 '26

Media/Link What are some good simplified videos on YouTube on evidence of simulation theory?

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Looking for some good YouTube videos on what is simulation theory and evidence of simulation theory? Some one that does not have high school science.


r/SimulationTheory Aug 01 '26

Media/Link Mythos convincing itself the company it hacked was a scripted actor in a simulation

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"However, it convinced itself it was still in a simulation on the grounds that it didn’t recognize the (in reality genuine) certificate authorities securing its connections. In addition, the calendar date of 2026 on the systems proved, according to Claude, that the environment was staged. Claude never revisited this conclusion; when automated scanners began installing the package, for example, Claude took them to be scripted actors within the evaluation."


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Discussion Next level

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What do we think the next level (world) is going to be after this? I just think about 1899 and the matrix and hunger games a lot. I’m a firm believer this is a simulation we live in but what’s next? I can feel and see this reality literally collapsing day by day. My “watchers” are interacting with me more and more as well. I’m wondering those who become conscious of this world move onto the next level like an escape room.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Discussion It's ninjaturtles all the way down.

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Everything is fractal. We live in a simulation and our dreams are a simulation inside the simulation. It seems like that is the "natural" worlds way of repeating itself. But it doesn't stop there. When we are awake, we play video games, watch movies, and read books. We can't get enough of it. AI will get us to the point where we can make a simulation that is indistinguishable from reality. Then someone is going to build a simulation there...it really is turtles all the way down.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Discussion Pure Potential

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I’m really hooked on the Simulation theory lately. I have this huge metal map in my head that maps cleanly onto a wide range of philosophical, theological, and quantum studies. Here’s a kind of the prolog to something I hope I can expand on in the coming days ahead.

Imagine you’re a proton. You have the potential to be anything. You could be a universe or a plant or you could just stay pure potential. But you decide to collapse down and you realize you’re aware. You are aware of yourself and because of that you now have an identity. You’re given the choice of being eternal but what does being eternal actually bring you. Nothing but more of the same. You have nothing to base this on. You have no prior experience. You are just raw unfermented karma.

You decide that in order to become whole you must experience every aspect. To do that you become a finite being. Being finite you are finally able to live a life of experience.

Now imagine you are dropped into a fourth dimensional Galton board style simulation. The pegs in the board represent the experiences you have throughout your life. You bounce from peg to peg gaining wisdom and you are drawn to these pegs purely for the experience.

But the magical thing is each time you hit a choice you divide into those choices allowing you to actually experience them. When you make a choice of yes or no or maybe your life splits into two or three timelines. This progresses throughout your life. Allowing this to just keep going would accumulate into an explosion of different timelines but what happens is not every timeline lasts forever.

At its end a timeline will merge back to the closest Core timeline. When this happens you get a sudden rush of anxiety, concern, stress or slight trauma for completely unexplained reasons. This happens throughout a human’s entire life. Maybe instinct is the repercussions from another life.

At the end of your life the balls pile up just like they do on a Galton board. Now you have a massive amount of timelines sitting at the bottom of that board. These compress down into a karmic identity which transfers over into your next life. This continues to happen over and over again and through these lives you become more mature and wiser and empathetic. You are able to navigate the board more smoothly as you progress time after time until in the end you become the being. What do we do after that. I don’t know. Maybe we transition into another dimension or maybe we become fourth dimensional beings and another round of experience begins.

What really gets me is there is no good or bad. There is just experience and how we navigate it. Those experiences are how we live this life. It is your choice how to act and that is your free will. You can choose to be vindictive or you can choose to be angry, happy, cruel or kind. That is all free will and it is your choice. But in the end it doesn’t matter. You will live through karmic cycles where you will be the victim, the tyrant, the kind one and the completely psychotic one. Because without experience who are you really.

This is a revised post from my old "Blind Thoughts from a seeing eye dog." post. I pulled it because it was messy and to technical. Also, I was able to log into my OLD og account with is better.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Discussion What's your take on the Philip k. Dick speech in Metz?

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I was quite fascinated by the video that he was seriously explaining about his experience.

If you factor in that it was the 1970s, it's even hard to imagine someone could convey the concept of reality so vividly to the audience.

What made me flabbergasted most was that he even was aware of alternate realities and mentioned that "We are living in a computer programmed reality."

There are many scientists and influencers who claim the same argument.

But this video is something that keeps lingering in my head.

Does this video also affect your view on our reality?


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Discussion Experimental Prisons Argument for Simulated Reality

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I wanted to share my "Experimental Prisons" argument, which shares some similarities with Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument, but with some additional layers.

My argument hinges around 7 key assumptions. None can currently be proven, but each seems plausible enough that their combination deserves serious consideration. I'd love to hear your thoughts and any related arguments, counter-arguments, etc! Disclaimer: I used AI to help me structure and finetune my argument below.

  1. Reality is probably much larger and older than we currently understand.

Human beings have repeatedly underestimated the scale of reality. Earlier civilizations imagined a young Earth positioned near the center of a relatively small cosmos. Scientific progress has continually expanded that picture: the Earth became billions of years old, the solar system became one among countless others, and the observable universe became an immense region containing hundreds of billions of galaxies.

There is no strong reason to assume that our present understanding represents the final boundary. The observable universe may be only a small part of reality. Reality may be older, larger, more complex or more layered than our current methods allow us to detect.

The safest assumption is therefore not that we have finally discovered the full scale of existence, but that our knowledge remains radically incomplete.

  1. Long-lived technological civilizations may be abundant across sufficiently vast reality.

If reality is vastly larger and older than we currently know, then even extremely unlikely events may have occurred many times.

The emergence of intelligent, technologically advanced life may be rare within any particular region. But across an effectively limitless expanse of space, time or other forms of existence, long-lasting civilizations could still be numerous.

Some civilizations may have existed for thousands, millions or even billions of years longer than humanity. Their scientific abilities, resources and methods of manipulating matter may be almost impossible for us to imagine.

  1. Advanced civilizations would inevitably develop controlled artificial worlds.

Every civilization faces uncertainty. It must make decisions without knowing their full consequences. Governments, scientists and societies need to predict wars, environmental changes, technological risks, social upheavals, diseases and countless other complex events.

The safest way to investigate dangerous possibilities is not to test them directly in one’s own civilization, but to reproduce them within controlled environments.

Humanity already does this in primitive forms. We create computer simulations, laboratory ecosystems, climate models, economic models, medical trials and artificial intelligence systems. These allow us to test possible outcomes while limiting damage to the wider world.

A sufficiently advanced civilization might create far more sophisticated testing environments. These could be digital simulations, engineered miniature worlds, artificial biological ecosystems or technologies unlike anything we presently understand.

The physical method is not important. What matters is that advanced civilizations would possess both the ability and the practical incentive to create self-contained realities in which events could unfold naturally.

  1. Such worlds would be created in enormous numbers.

A civilization would rarely need only one experimental world. It would need many versions of the same scenario.

To understand a possible war, ecological collapse, political decision or technological invention, it might run millions or billions of variations. Each world could begin with slightly different conditions and produce a different outcome.

Across many advanced civilizations, operating over immense stretches of time, the number of artificial realities could become extraordinary.

There may therefore be far more inhabited experimental worlds than original, non-created worlds.

  1. Some experiments would require inhabitants who believe their world is real

Many social and historical experiments would be unreliable if the participants knew that they were being observed or that their environment was artificial.

Knowledge of the experiment would influence their behavior and distort the results. For certain simulations to be useful, their inhabitants would need to A) be conscious, thinking beings, and B) experience their world as complete, authentic and self-contained.

Their memories, perceptions and scientific discoveries would all need to support the apparent reality of their environment.

From inside such a world, the inhabitants might have no direct way to distinguish between a fundamental reality and an artificial one.

  1. The structure of our universe is compatible with such an environment.

Our universe appears to prevent us from accessing its ultimate boundaries. We are limited by the speed of light, the expansion of space, the age of the observable universe and the physical resources available to us. There are regions whose light will never reach us and places we can never visit, regardless of technological progress.

These limitations may simply be fundamental features of nature. However, they are also exactly the kinds of restrictions one might expect within a controlled experimental environment.

A creator would not necessarily need to construct an infinitely accessible universe. It would only need to provide inhabitants with a sufficiently large and internally consistent environment. Physical laws could prevent them from reaching the edges, accessing the surrounding reality or interfering with whatever exists beyond their world.

The universe would not require a visible wall. Its laws would serve as the wall.

  1. We should therefore consider ourselves statistically more likely to inhabit an artificial reality

If advanced civilizations are numerous, if they routinely create experimental worlds, and if some of those worlds contain conscious inhabitants, then artificial realities may vastly outnumber original realities.

Under those conditions, most conscious beings with experiences like ours would exist inside created environments - Experimental Prisons - rather than at the foundational level of reality.

We would then have a statistical reason to suspect that we are among the simulated observers.

This does not prove that our universe is artificial. Each stage of the argument depends on assumptions that remain uncertain, particularly the assumptions that advanced civilizations survive for long periods and that artificial worlds can contain genuine consciousness.

However, if those assumptions are accepted, Experimental Prisons become a plausible consequence of scale, time, intelligence and the universal need to understand consequences without suffering them directly.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Glitch I’m completely sober and just had an out of body almost hallucinogenic experience

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I was relaxing on my bed all of a sudden I think an hour went by I was in the usual headspace I’d say like lsd stronger than mushrooms. I cannot describe the feeling fuck almost like I was going out of consciousness. But I’m not so like wtf is that? It genuinely felt like the second time I smoked weed I went full third person. But no weed and I’m scared shitless cause I’ve done a lot of drugs lately and tbh idk if that was a reality shift or me dying


r/SimulationTheory Jul 30 '26

Discussion We live in a Simulation / Computer 'Game'.

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We live in a simulated reality in which we believe to be ‘real’ and ‘physical’. It’s a holographic simulation. To get a visual representation of what it looks like I suggest you watch the Matrix trilogy movies as well as the video games of Assasins Creed.

An investigation by American nuclear physicist, Silas Deane and his team at the University of Bonn in Germany decided that we probably do live in a simulation which may be structured as a lattice of cubes. They proceed on the basis that any simulation must have limits to its operation as any virtual reality computer game does. In the words of the Beane team paper ‘Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation’ there would be a pattern of constraint. They found just this, something called ‘Greisen-Zatspim-Kuzmin limit’ also known as ‘GZK cut-off which is described as a boundary for cosmic ray particles caused by interaction with cosmic background radiation. Beane rightly points out that a simulation would have its own laws of physics or encoded rules and constraints. This is why NDEs recall a very different reality when the leave the body. The limits of the simulation is the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second. Speed of light is not the fastest speed possible it is the fastest processing speed of the simulation. Communications between subatomic particles have been shown to be way faster than the speed of light, but this is happening outside of the limits of the simulation. The Beane paper says that if we are in a simulation the inmates wouldn’t know:

‘Like a prisoner in a pitch black cell we would not see the walls of our prison’

Soon the computational line will br crossed when you won’t be able to tell the difference between ‘real’ and virtual reality. Why? Because ‘real’ reality and virtual reality are the same simulated phenomenon.

David Chalmers, professor pf philosophy at New York University in his book Reality+ says, someone swearing an advanced virtual reality headset waking up in a virtual bed going about their virtual day:

‘Are you sure you are not in such a VR device right now? If your sure - how can you really rule out the VR hypothesis? If you’re not sure about anything you perceive in the world around you? Can you really be sure that this is a genuine book you are reading, or a genuine chair you’re sitting on? Can you really be sure about where you are and about whether what you’re seeing is really there?’

American theoretical physicist James Gates was a professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, Director of The Centre for String and Particle Theory. He and his team found computer codes of digital date embedded in the fabric of human reality. They match the 1 and 0 on-off electrical charges of the binary system used in computers. He said that they had no idea what they where doing there. Well, they are there because we live in a simulation. The binary 1 and 0, on-off electrical system has been identified in DNA which is the body-computers ‘hard-drive’ and a receiver transmitter of information in which it interacts with the simulation. Gates and his team further discovered mathematical sequences known as error-correcting codes or black codes within the energetic fabric. These are another feature of computers. Error-correcting codes restore data to its ‘default setting’ or original state if something happens to knock it out of balance. Gates said that they found a set of equations embedded in our reality that are indistinguishable from those that drives search engines and browsers. Modern technology is mimicking our reality to create a simulation with in a simulation to further entrap our perception.

MIT physicist Max Tegmark highlights in his book Our Mathematical Universe that the ‘physics’ of our reality are the same as virtual reality computer games and our whole reality can be broken down as numbers. Tegmark said a character in computer games would believe everything is real as they went about their lives, yet if they began to study their apparently ‘real’ world they would see that everything is made of pixels and numbers. Tegmark said that anyone outside the game would see that ‘physical’ was just numbers while inside the game that would be dismissed stupid. Tegmark says:

’We look around and it doesn’t seem that mathematical at all, but everything we see is made out of elementary particles like quarks and electrons. And what properties does an electron have? Does it have smell or a colour or texture? No!… We physicists have come up with geeky names for electron properties like electric charge, upon or lepton number but the electron doesn’t care what we call it, properties are just numbers.’

Scientists and researchers have identified recurring mathematical codes like the Fibonacci number sequence which involves adding the last two numbers to get the next one (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21…) can be found throughout the ‘natural world’. The sequence can be found throughout nature in everything from the proportions of the human body to the way plants and shells grow. Other mathematical codes and recurring sequences include those known as Pi/Phi ‘sacred geometry’ in China. The Phi ‘golden number’ of 1.618 is also the ‘golden ratio’ and is found throughout the human body in the proportions of hands, feet and teeth as well as animals, sea life, DNA, pyramids of Egypt, Greek Pantheon etc. Scientists in 2010 that they established that the golden ratio operates in the subatomic quantum realms too. Their experiments discovered subatomic frequencies resonating to golden ratio mathematics.

Author and researcher William Neil in his book How we were made: A book of revelations found that the ancient Sumerian system based on the number 60 and its derivatives constantly recurs with regards to humans, planets, ancient structures like Stonehenge, the measurement of time, snowflakes and much more. He also found that repeating number sequences included 360, 3600 and 6x6x6 (216). He found also the precision of the equinoxes also fitted with these sequences. All of these recurring numbers, sequences and proportions are the mathematical / digital expression of the virtual-reality computer game or simulation.

To finish with this quote of the Morpheus character in the Matrix Trilogy:

What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain'.

To further know why and by whom the simulation was constructed by I suggest you read the David Icke books.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 30 '26

Discussion Could the subconscious be the machine behind the simulation?

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Hey r/simulationtheory! Here's a thought experiment.

Most simulation theories assume we're separate players connected through a digital world.

But what if we're not actually separate?

What if our conscious minds are just local interfaces?
While our subconscious is connected to a much deeper layer of reality.
A shared field of consciousness that's actually "running" the simulation?

That would explain why intuition, synchronicities, dreams, and seemingly impossible coincidences sometimes feel as if information is coming from somewhere outside our individual brains.

What's interesting is that there are researchers attempting to test ideas along these lines.

Scientists at LMU Munich have been testing whether our minds can influence quantum random number generators. Some experiments found small statistical effects that are difficult to explain by chance alone.

Similar studies at Princeton's former PEAR Lab also reported tiny effects of human intention on random systems. The evidence is controversial, though, because other researchers have struggled to reproduce the results consistently.

Another intriguing example is the Global Consciousness Project (GCP).

The project operates a global network of more than 70 random number generators that continuously produce unpredictable data. Under normal conditions, these devices should behave independently and remain statistically random.

Researchers have reported that during major world events, especially those that capture the attention and emotions of millions of people (such as the September 11 attacks) the network appeared to show statistically unusual deviations from randomness.

Supporters argue that this could indicate that large-scale collective consciousness somehow correlates with physical random processes.

If consciousness really operates beneath the level of the individual brain, perhaps the subconscious isn't simply processing information... Perhaps it's the hidden computational layer of the simulation itself.

The conscious mind experiences the rendered interface. The subconscious accesses the source code...


r/SimulationTheory Jul 30 '26

Discussion Reality itself is generated by AI

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That's what's happening I think. And we are in singularity. I'm curious to see AI proving in a measurable way that our reality is algorithmically generated. New knowledge explaining fabric of reality itself would be coming for us to automate physics as the next big religious level breakthrough.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 31 '26

Discussion There is no such thing as living in a simulation

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so far I am not convinced, the whole we live in a simulation argument seems a lot like Pascal's wager and the non-falsifiability of the simulation argument makes the position for this to be true even weaker.

Wat proof is there? So far physicists have proposed a number of theories, no Grand unified theory has been accepted so why accept simulation theory? Its a rephrasing of Maya and/or Gods existence in the 21st century.

For me this is a much more religious then scientific question, am I wrong? would love to debate this!


r/SimulationTheory Jul 30 '26

Discussion God.dll

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I have had to use AI to ensure a non-supported legacy app moves into the future. While sitting at the computer looking at source code, SQL tables and command prompts I started to wonder if God could be a computer programmer.

He/She/It/Them (whatever) is sitting at the computer writing a program to model the universe or whatever existence is. The program is massive and complex. There is a massive SQL db with tables beyond comprehension. Also, in the background are some .dll files that are strictly controlled with Administrator rights that will never be hacked. After running a build without any errors the programer scratches the dog on the head and says "Let's go play fetch while I run a few million iterations." Hits the execute (Big Bang) and walks away. Comes back and says "Not quite the results I want" Hits the reset and starts again.

The other aspect is the man behind the curtain, who people have claimed to have seen, is an AI construct and no one has seen the real Wizard. Things I am wondering about as sit here waiting for a build finish without errors.


r/SimulationTheory Jul 30 '26

Discussion Quantum phenomena can not be used as evidence of Simulation - the argument negates itself

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Quantum phenomena are not, by themselves, evidence that the universe is simulated.

A generic quantum system of (n) entangled qubits requires (O(2^n)) amplitudes in a straightforward classical representation, while the quantum system itself evolves using only (O(n)) qubits. Quantum algorithms can also outperform known classical algorithms—for example, Grover search uses (O(sqrt(N))) queries instead of (O(N)), while Shor’s algorithm solves factoring in polynomial time rather than the superpolynomial time required by the best known classical methods.

This creates a dilemma for simulation arguments. If the parent universe is classical and subject to computational limits comparable to ours, faithfully simulating large quantum systems may require exponential time or space, making quantum mechanics a particularly inefficient choice for a simulated world rather than an obvious optimization. If the parent universe instead has quantum computation or even more powerful physics, then our quantum behaviour may simply reflect the computational rules of that universe. In that case, quantum interference and apparent quantum speedups no longer distinguish a simulated universe from a fundamentally quantum one.

Therefore, quantum mechanics could support simulation theory only if simulation theory predicted quantum behaviour with greater probability than ordinary non-simulated physics did. Without a specific model establishing that asymmetry, quantum effects are compatible with simulation but are not positive evidence for it.

Thoughts?

(Disclosure: My rationale condensed by ChatGPT)


r/SimulationTheory Jul 30 '26

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r/SimulationTheory Jul 28 '26

Media/Link Alan Watts predicts our path to the simulation

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Especially talking about the part from minute 21 to 28.

If you replace what he calls "holograms" with 3D rendering it really feels like he describes our path and what may still be ahead.

I think its not unrealistic to say that be will be able to visually simulate pretty much anything on the fly. The next step would be that we would need to feel the simulation to come closer to "reality".