Are we living in a Matrix?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

If you realize that you're a figment in a simulation and you retain that identity without zero summing (realizing you exist and don't exist at the same time and winking yourself out of existance, i.e. -1 + 1 = 0) can you eventually reach the point where you can alter your reality at will?

It's the basis of the theory of CHIM in the Elder Scrolls games.

For any individual, the only "reality" that exists is that individual's subjective perception of it. Whether or not it exists independently of one's own perception of it is another question, and one that may be impossible to answer.

That said - if you alter your perception of reality, you have for all practical purposes altered reality itself. This is the basic truth behind the Zen principle that when you attain enlightenment, all of creation is simultaneously enlightened. What has changed? You have, but nothing else is required.