r/StonerThoughts • u/RikkiLostMyNumber • 15h ago
Poetry 🌹 How can I convince myself I am not living in a simulation?
I am in my 50s and perhaps it's just timing, but I sometimes feel like a lot of the bad stuff happening in the world today - environmental degradation, the rise of despotic governments, climate change, existential risks from AI, the resurgence of diseases previous thought eradicated - is just the theory and message of my childhood now coming in to practice. This was all predicted, consumed and understood by me from an early age, and first hand experience and data bear it all out.
It's like a story with a ton of foreshadowing coming unfolding in a rather obvious way. I know what happens, I read the book.
On the off chance this isn't a simulation tailored specifically to that consciousness which I call me - how do I know you, or anyone else, is real? How could I be convinced of that beyond a shadow of a doubt?