Is all of this around us real?

FreakyLocz14

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    How would you react if you discovered that our world isn't real and we were all dream or a computer simulation or something?

    Would you want to live in the real reality or remain where you are now?
     
    I have often thought what if I was really in the matrix.

    I would like to get out into the real world... even if it meant fighting deadly robots to survive.
     
    It depends. If I like the simulation world, I may end up staying there, but I'll go back to the real world if I don't like the simulation.
     
    I think, therefore I am.

    All the existence we know is ourselves. perception of consciousness and existence by others is simply perception of it. We have no way of determining it to be a real thing. So it very well may be that. But because I'm the one thinking as far as I'm concerned, all of you would be out of luck. :P
     
    ooh, the OP sounds so much like The Matrix. It depends if the "real world" was better somehow I might want to go there, it depends on what it would be like.
     
    The blue pill or the red pill? Well it depends.. I'd hate to think that all the people I met in this.. virtual reality weren't real. Then again.. I'm the type of person who meets and misses the people in my dreams.
    Usually I wouldn't be one to want to live in blissful ignorance.. but really I think at this point.. I couldn't really decide. I'd have to weigh the consequences; if other peoples' lives were on the line.. or if it were only mine.. would have to come into consideration.
     
    I tend to sometimes wonder if the world is real anyway. Sometimes I actually start believing this is a simulation and the world is like a huge ass game of The Sims. It gets updated as technology goes on, so right now we're The Sims 3 and God is the player behind the computer screen. Even if I'm just a Sim, it's the only life (or virtual life!) I got, so why would I leave it!? :) ...Hm. So if I'm a simulation, and I'm on a computer talking to other simulations who are on computers...wow. Mind blown. But in this theory I have, there is no reality other than God. But I'm sure someone will come tell me why this isn't true lololol. Leave me to my mind, please!
     
    To what consequence my life and the knowledge to live it may be, I would be wholly indifferent to living it as unreal.
    I would stay as I am simply by virtue of already being it, unless the otherwise notion were sufficiently qualified in relation.
     
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    Denial would be my initial reaction. This world is as real as anything I know. It's what I'm attached to. If I accepted that it wasn't "real" then I'd ask how I could change it to make it better and, having done that, go back to my fantasy world.
     
    I'd have to see what the "real" world would be like before making any concrete decision. If it's a harsh, unrelenting picaresque then it's probably not going to be massively appealing. If it's a land filled with joyous wonder then I still don't know whether I'd choose to leave everything I knew as 'real' behind. I'm kinda risk averse - a sort of better-the-devil-you-know kinda person, so unless the real world was much 'better' than this reality, I'd probably stay in denial for a significant time.
     
    lx_theo said:
    I think, therefore I am.

    All the existence we know is ourselves. perception of consciousness and existence by others is simply perception of it. We have no way of determining it to be a real thing. So it very well may be that. But because I'm the one thinking as far as I'm concerned, all of you would be out of luck. :P
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    ^That's probably the most reasonable way to think about this situation.
     
    Hmmm, that's certainly something to think about.

    To be honest, I wouldn't be angry. I'd be fine with it. My only alternative is to pursue answers that may lead to uncertainty, so why bother?
     
    It depends on how the 'real' reality is different, tbh. I'd most likely stay here though. I'm fine as I am right now, so why start over when I've already built up a life for 17 years? I'd be an absolute outsider, and I don't see why I should immediately make myself an outcast. I don't see why it'd matter that I'm living in the 'fake' world anyway.
     
    I watched the Matrix for the first time in our Religious Education class two years ago and it killed my mind out from such an idea I'd never thought of.
    I'd just stay here, I'm fine not taking the red pill and not staying in Wonderland and where I'll be shown how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

    "The story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe"
     
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