Are we living in a Matrix?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Indeed, it sounds like a complete waste of time for starters if such a thing where true what ever made such a complex simulation would clearly be so complex we would not be able to possibly figure it out.
Though just thinking about it it seems highly illogical.To what end would an entire simulated universe serve?

The same somebody plays Sim City for. It's fun.

It makes little sense to evaluate the plausability of the idea by standards that only illustrate the current and imaginable limits of human technology. Because human technology may run by rules valid in the universe. That does not mean in principle and for all time to come that they allow humans to assume that their technological skill defines the borders and shapes of the universe. We always only perceive a small part of the universe, reality, space-time-continuum - however you call it. Even our our ideas are right - we can never know to what degree our knowledge pool represents ALL of the universe, whether our knowledge covers a small or a huge - not to mention: ALL - of the universe.

All we know, when we can prove our theories right, is that for the time being the course we have set through the dark void is working for us, has not lead us into shallow waters, and not made us colliding at a cliff. We cannot know whether there are better, safer, more comfortable or shorter courses. We do not know where the course is leading. We do not know how much of the total length we can cover by setting this course, and not another one.

Uncertainty is a characteristic of life, isn't it. For some people, that is a very mind-troubling, frightening perspective. It explains many of man's follies and superstitions.

From eros to cosmos, from cosmos to logos, from logos to eros. From creative love to matter, from matter to mind, from mind to creative love. Eros, Kosmos, Logos is the German Title of Ken Wilber's main work, "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality". The English title is misleading and gives misleading connotations, Sex and Esoteric and all that. The German title is much better, almost perfect.