I think that we live in a simulation right now. Our universe was created by a higher power, but we have the ability to make our own simulated world, which will be the next step in our evolution. It'll make us masters of time and the individuals living in that stimulation will be like us.

We could be already deep in multiple levels of simulation and the outer bounds of the program is the boundaries of the universe. Once the original creator decides that the program is too dangerous or knows too much to go to the upper levels, that being will shut us all down and it'll be the end of the universe.

Do you think we live in a simulation right now? Do you think we will make our own altered reality to deal with mortality and the limitations we have right now that are set by the programmers?

Sis, for the sake of humanity we will have to figure out how to access the program that is above us. That is the secret to our universe and we will discover who our makers are.

If you think about it, that could be one way to extend the life of the universe. If you can run a simulated universe relatively quickly, for the people inside it would seem "normal" speed. So one day of running the simulation could be a hundred million years or some such number inside the simulation.

Then the simulated universe would reach the same point and develop their own simulation, which would run a hundred million years for one of their days. Compared to the original source universe, the second "pocket" simulation would run through its years in a small fraction of a day.

Continue the nesting of simulations, and all of a sudden you have entire universes and their timelines that are simulated in a fraction of an instant. That's a lot of extra time.

Perhaps we are one of the nested simulations, or perhaps we will be the original from which all the others will be based from. Maybe all the simulations are created in order to extend the time or provide a way to solve the last question.

Originally posted by GhostHaus What kind of stoner thoughts sis

Don't think about it.

Originally posted by Rascal I don't personally think it's possible to determine what's beyond reality by using/comparing concepts found within reality.

But we can go down a level and create a whole new layer of simulation. We do this all the time. When we breed animals in farms for them to be slaughter, the animals don't have any idea what their birth intentions are and what final product they end up to be. All they know is the farm they're living in, the other animals and the individuals who take care of them. They don't know much about their own reality. That's essentially a human made simulation.

If we do the same for animals, what's to say that it isn't happening to us right now? The answer can be found, but it's outside our reach. We have to try harder to figure it out.

Originally posted by Almighty Gaga Don't think about it.

Originally posted by Retro It's actually a legitimate theory that has gained notable traction in modern philosophical and scientific circles.

Originally posted by GhostHaus Is it really? It just seems crazy to me. But re reading the op it does kinda sound legit