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Edited by Peaches Pan Tao:
10/26/2018 8:26:26 AM
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A weird idea I have...
Obviously, it is very egotistical, as you will see.
It is this: what if I am living in a simulation, but my consciousness is just a partial reconstruction of my former self? What if once, I was someone famous or revered, and immediately after I died my brain was frozen. Fast forward and people figure out how to decode my basic essence into digital form, but the process was incomplete, rendering only a fraction of my former self into a workable digital form. Being that I was once famous (I like to fancy I was a renowned writer/thinker), they leave the digital projection running, hoping to glen some novel snippet of my thoughts and talents to offer the world.
Such a reality would explain my egotistical sense of greatness, as well as my continual apathy and seeming inability to substantially realize my dreams and desires. I am an echo, a fading force inexorably rippling outwards into oblivion. With every glance inwards towards my origin, my original self; centered at the source of the widening ripple, grows less distinct. Ever and ever less discernible. While my consciousnesses is aware of itself, yet it is incapable of creating anything new: doomed to wander the now broken pathways of a former life, held within their domain by an inner apathy that permits free thought while simultaneously suppressing meaningful action.
I guess I should stop being 12 and go see someone...
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Crap he’s figured it out! Abort! Abort!
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Maybe.
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1 ReplyIsn’t there a user named Descartes who uses to post in #Offtopic? Something like I think therefore I am.
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Echoes of James O'Barr there.
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1 Replyyour saying were in a simulation so you can pretend you were famous? Solid facts right there
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Edited by THUNDERCHILD: 10/26/2018 9:37:54 PMDelusions of grandeur We're probably just generic test tube brains connected by some kind of devices we havnt yet conceived of, stacked rack apon rack. That, of course, assumes those who are running the simulations haven't developed very advanced purely electronic a.i.
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The matrix ma dude. [spoiler]the matrixxxxxxx[/spoiler]
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The only person that you know for certain is real is yourself. You will only ever experience things from your perspective.
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Existential crisis, huh? A health dose of electricity will cure that right away.
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4 RepliesBased on what you said about not being able to come up with something new, then how would you have come up with this thought? Seeing as how I was alive before computers became a household item and phones were still mainly mounted to the wall, not in your pocket, I can say this; for as much as the internet and being constantly connected has brought us together, it has also done a lot to separate us. We are more distant from each other now, less tolerant, more angry, and judgemental. We focus too much on the immediate and not enough on the joys of seeing each other or talking to each other. It is so easy to just not reply to a text, an email or answer a call. Hell, most folks do not even check their mail daily anymore because nothing of import is there, just bills and advertisements. Mind you, I do not think that the internet, TV, computers, etc, are to blame for this, the fault ultimately lies within us and our desire to make things easier for ourselves. It is almost always the operator that is at fault, lol. [spoiler]I bet 3 cookies I am going to catch a lot of flack for this from the angsty teens here, lol.[/spoiler]
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So what your saying is you are Walt Disney's frozen head? Though if this is some sort of simulation, I'm going to make sure I'm good friends with the AIs and agents. Maybe get someone to generate SCP-127(a living gun that shoots teeth) to screw with those nerds on the range.
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1 Reply[quote]I am an echo[/quote] Alt confirmed!
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Or we’re living in a cycle. Think about it. The Earth was populated before us by us, but they were wiped out by nuclear war, leaving the remnants of us. We could be doomed to the same fate! Damn, I’m woke...
