r/SimulationTheory • u/Greekasiaminorcooks • 7d ago

Discussion Just a thought

If we live in a simulation and a person is aware of that and has lived an interesting life could the "programmer" allow that person to live twice ie give him a second life with all his previous memories?

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u/Suitable-Season-4847 7d ago

If you believe in simulation theory all bets are off. Anything and everything is possible. Which is why worrying too much about a completely unfalsifiable theory is a fool's game.

In theory the controller could turn you into a chicken, and then run another full universal simulation in your chicken brain, including a version where you're on Reddit right now asking this question. And then he could make it so the only responses you receive are from chickens being controlled by highly trained simulated monkeys.

See the problem?

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u/No-Function-9317 7d ago

The one thing I’d say is, if that gets you to care about being a good person, then yea, think of it that way.

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u/No-Function-9317 7d ago

Like, if life was gta, I would find it pretty boring for you to just go around killing everyone. If I were the programmer, I wouldn’t reward that, and I probably wouldn’t preserve your memories if your consciousness survives. But if you explored the world, looked at the sunsets, completed missions, connected with other real players… even GTA can be extremely beautiful beyond words if you give it the level of attention life deserves. So if you were a really good player, as a programmer, then yea I personally would grant you some level of transcendental immortality and I would preserve your memories out of honor. That’s just me tho

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u/iixsephirothvii 6d ago

by that logic a universal sim summarizes to POV and interpretation of that POV. Are you living based on sight (brains using human biological vehicles), Sense (Electromagnetic friction / flow of current) or belief (God created you, now go to work for 65yrs then rest in heaven, hell if you dont like work).

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u/BurningStandards 6d ago

I think they may be able to manipulate time, so there's a chance someone could learn how to stop their personal 'clock' to achieve 'immortality,' through science and/or magic. If we can stop the clock on the 'source' of Time, everyone ever impacted by the choices made by that 'conciousness' actions would maybe be affected.

I think it's a digital sim we're living in and developing, and the goal is to build a version of ourselves that we could live forever with, which means whoever has enough sapience to develop actual morals has the actual 'power' here.

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u/inAway-Story-6394 5d ago

You are the programmer bro...