I just bypass that mechanism with a strategy of my own. Everything is fake, and is just a sea of compressed wavelengths that we all interpret individually to form a consensus reality! Panpsychism for the secular, panentheism for the non-secular. Pass around the party hats.
Depends on your views of what a simulation is. If you're talking "are we actually plugged into some mainframe, and all this is a computer sim" it then begs the question of whether our simulation is a computer mimicry of the prior reality (ie; is the "real reality" represented in the same Fibonacci binaries?) Or are we perhaps a less complex simplification of a reality based on geometries unfathomable to us? Is the progression of life then simply a deeper and deeper journey into simulations within simulations? I enjoy the thought experiments of simulation theory, but in the end that particular aspect doesn't matter when placed next to our individual lives. Is the sea of energy we are swimming in the result of a program? Or a naturally evolved experienced gained through collective evolution? I don't put a hard pin in almost any of this stuff.
Also, I don't think the world is what YOU make it. I think the world at large is what WE make it. And our physical experience is largely a manifestation of the reached consensus. Under this idea, it would mean mental illnesses like schizophrenia etc. are people experiencing reality, but simply one far removed from what our collective consensus has agreed upon. Therefore they are labelled Iil, rather than labelled as individuals who see a different "angle" of the same reality.
At that point it begins to get hard to pick apart just what may be caused by the degradation of moral society (and the subsequent mental breaks) and what may be a view into realities some are incapable of seeing for themselves.
I just bypass that mechanism with a strategy of my own. Everything is fake, and is just a sea of compressed wavelengths that we all interpret individually to form a consensus reality! Panpsychism for the secular, panentheism for the non-secular. Pass around the party hats.
Depends on your views of what a simulation is. If you're talking "are we actually plugged into some mainframe, and all this is a computer sim" it then begs the question of whether our simulation is a computer mimicry of the prior reality (ie; is the "real reality" represented in the same Fibonacci binaries?) Or are we perhaps a less complex simplification of a reality based on geometries unfathomable to us? Is the progression of life then simply a deeper and deeper journey into simulations within simulations? I enjoy the thought experiments of simulation theory, but in the end that particular aspect doesn't matter when placed next to our individual lives. Is the sea of energy we are swimming in the result of a program? Or a naturally evolved experienced gained through collective evolution? I don't put a hard pin in almost any of this stuff.
Also, I don't think the world is what YOU make it. I think the world at large is what WE make it. And our physical experience is largely a manifestation of the reached consensus. Under this idea, it would mean mental illnesses like schizophrenia etc. are people experiencing reality, but simply one far removed from what our collective consensus has agreed upon. Therefore they are labelled Iil, rather than labelled as individuals who see a different "angle" of the same reality.
At that point it begins to get hard to pick apart just what may be caused by the degradation of moral society (and the subsequent mental breaks) and what may be a view into realities some are incapable of seeing for themselves.