Magic may well have been real. Healing crystals, shamanry, witchcraft, voodoo, things of this nature may have been real at one point and have since been patched out. These could have simply been glitches in the program.

We’ve all heard of glitches in games that can be exploited that eventually get patched. Could have been real.

  • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I prefer to assume that we are simply the hallucinations of a brain floating through space. Which is more probable than everyone living in a simulation and a lot funnier to think about.

    • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      Imagine we mix the two. If a single developer created the (computer) simulation we are living in, aren’t we a hallucination of his brain?

      I wonder if it’s more or less likely that would be the work of a single developer, or a collaborative effort, like complex development projects require a large group for us. Would assuming a hyper-intelligent brain, or one with infinite time change the equation?

      Now I imagine how having infinite power and resources in this universe would make a difference. Is this floating brain (let’s call him ‘god’, just as a placeholder) be more likely to create a physical structure (atoms and such) to run his simulation/hallucination/thought experiment, or just use abstract structures? And would it make a difference for the simulated/hallucinated people inside?

      • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        It formed there.

        Statistically speaking it is more likely that a single brain formed randomly and is hallucinating the existence of our lives than our species forming as we are through billions of years of evolution and existing on Earth.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I prefer to think we’re simply the hallucinations of a possible brain, with no way to distinguish every possible brain that could exist from ‘real’ brains that exist in reality.