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We absolutely love the idea in fiction that the reality surrounding us might be just an illusion. Throw in some psychological thriller elements to elevate these modern retellings of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and we’re even happier. Aside from ‘The Matrix’ trilogy (let’s ignore that the trainwreck of a fourth film even exists…), we can heartily recommend ‘Dark City’ and ‘The Thirteenth Floor.’

There’s something about meticulously peeling back the layers of ‘reality’ to get to the Truth (capital ‘T’) of how the universe actually works that is entrancing. After all, we can’t always trust our senses. Even our memories can be faulty.

The idea that there’s something much deeper going on with the world is easy to believe if you’ve ever read about quantum physics, even superficially. Quantum entanglement, tunneling, and wave-particle duality, anyone?

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The Mandela Effect.

Like, there are things that have clearly been changed. Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia when I was a kid. It’s the entire reason I know what a cornucopia is. Yet according to every source it never did.

Ohiostatehack , river_is_nice Report

Final score:

123points

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Jill Rhodry 5 months ago

BerenSTEIN Bears is a hill I'll die on

82points

asq1616 , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Clearly that some people have their settings on Easy Mode and others are on Survival Mode. You ever met someone who literally never has or had any issues? Easy childhood, solid upbringing with good parents, smart, good looking, gets the job they want, healthy relationship, financially stable… that’s an NPC on the Easy Mode for sure.

Final score:

120points

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similarly 5 months ago

So true on so many levels.

39points

Anyone-for-tea? 5 months ago

Ha ha, I feel like I started like that with most of those things…but then someone changed the difficulty to survival mode when I got to level 36. I need to reload my save for level 35.

10points

Jen Drake 5 months ago

If this is true, I’m the guy still buffering in the corner.

7points

Vix Spiderthrust 5 months ago

Why would an NPC have a difficulty setting?

6points

egggratin 5 months ago

to gain experience. every experience is valuable for a soul that wants to have earthly experiences, good and bad

3points

Trophy Husband 5 months ago

Sooooo...BP not making me feel better about my life today, eh?

3points

John Harrison 5 months ago

"You ever met someone who literally never has or had any issues?" No. Neither have you.

3points

Salty_Sasquatch 5 months ago

There's always stress, problems, frustrations, setbacks etc, even for the people described.

3points

Shadow 5 months ago

Yes, there really is. I'm still only a teen but I think I had a pretty easy/perfect childhood except for anxiety

0points

Orysha 5 months ago

It might be a cheat code too.

3points

Krystal Quigley 5 months ago

It is called "born white middle class in a developed country with two mentally stable parents.

2points

Lady Miss Pie Premium 5 months ago

YEP. I work for those people. Never struggled a day in their lives. I know, because they tell on themselves

1point

Blondie23 5 months ago

O...M...G!!! This is my brother and I to a tee... we grew up in the same house, 5 years apart in age. I have struggled my whole life despite making the right choices and doing the right thing. He on the other hand just has to show up and the whole world bends for him. FRUSTRATING!!!!!

1point

Lululoohoo 4 months ago (edited)

...raises hand...not ashamed to say this is me & i know how lucky i am. (my childhood was amazing, my parents are solid & so loving & we have a wonderful close relationship, I am smart enough, I know I'm at least cute & I love my job. Happily married, financially stable.)

0points

Jane Hower 4 months ago

Benefiting from good karma in previous lives!!!

0points

Benoît Rainville 5 months ago

NPC here, thanks for acknowledging me🤩

0points

Joy 5 months ago

Harry Styles but he's also a decent soul who makes good choices.

0points

Joseph 5 months ago

Politicians.

0points

Michelle Forbes 5 months ago

Funny seeing this, I was just saying to my friends...I bet I was too cocky completing my last life on easy mode that I picked hardcore mode for this one 😂

0points

Verena 5 months ago (edited)

Some of these are luck (parents, childhood, looks, job, smart, character) and some are a mix of hard work, choose your battle and the ability to be happy with a normal life and accepting that life is difficult (job, character, smart, financial) and some are enabling each other (childhood, parents, character, relationship, finances). Some things can be changed, some not.

0points

Krystal Quigley 5 months ago

Mahaha

0points

Pyla 5 months ago

Yup. And they don’t get that even if you are a peer, past survival mode still haunts your brain.

0points

laura lee 5 months ago

Shows how gd important solid parenting is

0points

Manana Man 5 months ago

I thought people like that were usually serial killers.

0points

Jan 5 months ago

How do I switch to easy mode?

0points

Lsai Aeon 5 months ago

Damn, I ended up with hardcore mode. F U Devs

0points

Trillian 5 months ago

My brother is one of those people.

0points

Lisa T 5 months ago

Some people out there be dressing like The Sims NPC’s.

0points

iseefractals 5 months ago

Or perhaps stupid people make stupid choices of which they can' t even conceive the consequences and thus never really have a plan, so much as a series of increasingly desperate reactions which sets their offspring up to fail, thereby making it very likely for that cycle to continue. Too many people work off the assumption that they're "entitled" to certain things simply because others have them, while making an endless stream of assumptions about how they got there, and what having it actually entails. It's not "easy" for anyone, you just don't understand the ways in which it's difficult.

-2points

Charlotte 5 months ago

Seems to me the people with the highest sense of entitlement are the ones who just swan around expecting everyone else to do the work - and they get away with it, because the rest of us were brought up to be polite

2points

Isatdab 5 months ago

Or maybe you’re just making excuses

-3points

Particular-Topic-445 , Chris Isherwood / flickr Report

The idea that we’re potentially living in a simulation isn’t something that just sci-fi fans have embraced. Well-respected researchers and philosophers are seriously considering the idea. Earth.com explains that the Simulation Hypothesis is, in fact, a real theory. It’s the idea that our world and the entire universe are an artificial simulation created by an advanced civilization.

According to philosopher Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper ‘Are You Living in a Computer Simulation,’ there’s a significant chance that we exist in a simulation if advanced civilizations are capable of creating complex simulations inhabited by simulated conscious beings. Of course, we would have to assume that those advanced civilizations are even interested in running realistic simulations at all.

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation That it never fails that once you start to get a little bit ahead in life, your car’s check engine light comes on

Final score:

118points

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lunitavet 5 months ago

Or there is a new medical issue

48points

Red-okWolf , KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA / pexels Report

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Going into a room and forgetting what i was gonna do. We're sims and they cancelled the action.

Final score:

113points

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Thomas Maertens 5 months ago

"The doorway effect". A more likely theory is simply that your brain kind of cleans the 'buffer zone' of the short term memory when entering a new space, so it can store the new informations more easily.

70points

zanybrainy , Karolina Kaboompics / pexels Report

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The usb plug still the wrong way after you turn it over.

Final score:

104points

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Gary Avekukk 5 months ago

Why wasn't a universal fitting created in the first place?

40points

VeryTightButtholes , Bradley Hook / pexels Report

Meanwhile, the brain in a vat experiment supposes that a brain connected to a powerful computer that feeds it a simulated virtual reality would have no idea that it is, in fact, a brain in a vat.

For it, the world that it’s seeing, including its perception of its body, would be ‘real.’ Some philosophers claim that there’s no surefire way of knowing that we aren’t brains in vats if the simulation is good enough. That suggests, rather uncomfortably, that we'd never be able to find out what Reality (with a capital 'R') truly is.

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Look at the video game industry, and all the progress made in only fifty years. We went from dots and bars on a screen to photorealistic characters and full scale worlds.

Now extrapolate this progress out say....1,000 years? I don't think it's inconceivable to think that we might be able to simulate an entire galaxy by then.

And if we can, someone else might already have.

Final score:

103points

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similarly 5 months ago

Wow! Somebody should make a movie like that.

36points

spagyrum , T6 Adventures / pexels Report

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation History repeating with nothing learned.

Final score:

96points

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similarly 5 months ago

I think that's more down to human behavior.

64points

mrjangles0110 , Castorly Stock / pexels Report

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The big bang, there was nothing and then there was everything. Sounds like a program starting up to me. Also particles acting differently when being viewed.

Final score:

95points

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Gary Avekukk 5 months ago

It's all turtles, all the way down......

59points

SleepingUnderARock , Pieter Brueghel the Elder / Wikipedia Report

The author of the viral thread opened up to us about the inspiration behind the unusual topic. They said that the question popped into their head while working one day. “I work from home as a software developer, so sometimes, my mind tends to wander throughout the day. This was right around the time that 'The Gateway Process' was kind of trendy to talk about on TikTok, and I had been seeing a lot about it on my feed," u/DawsonD43 told Bored Panda.

According to them, the topic resonated with so many people because there are so many unexplainable strange things that happen to us. "There’s just so many people who have probably experienced (the same) weird things happen to them, and for people to be able to share on that Reddit thread and see that they’re not the only ones who’ve experienced it—it was probably quite a relief!"

However, from the author’s perspective, everyone who saw or participated in the discussion might not necessarily enjoy the idea that we might live in a simulation so much as the fact that it’s an interesting topic to think about. "It becomes quite philosophical the more you think about it. And the more you think about it, the more you go down the rabbit hole. If I’m inside a simulation, well, what’s outside the simulation?" they mused.

#10

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Never forget the dancing plague of 1518.. Probably devs were installing a new Mod or something.

Final score:

94points

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james stevenson 5 months ago (edited)

I'm pretty sure it was suspected to have something to do with some psychedelic d**g type mould that got into the bread

47points

Long-Marketing-8843 , Karolina Grabowska / pexels Report

#11

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Things would re-appear only when I stop looking for it. If that’s not a dead give away that we’re living in a simulation, I don’t know what is.

And don’t forget about hair pins and hair ties. Where do they even go???

Final score:

91points

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Lisa T 5 months ago

I FIND hair ties and nobody even uses them in our house

53points

ThtPhatCat , Arthur Brognoli / pexels Report

#12

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The baader-meinhof phenomenon- lazy coding like GTA, you see a car for the first time and the next day you see it everywhere

Final score:

89points

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james stevenson 5 months ago

Isn't this just like once you've noticed something it becomes so much more obvious? If you've found a hidden image in one of those puzzles you're going to notice it pretty much every time you look at that particular puzzle

47points

anon , Karolina Kaboompics / pexels Report

Bored Panda asked u/DawsonD43 how people's lives would actually change if it were conclusively proven that we all do, in fact, exist inside of a simulation. "I don’t think we will ever know for sure if we are living in a simulation. I just don’t think the general population would be able to digest the fact that we, and our entire reality, are not real," they shared their take.

"It would cause everything as we know it to change: religion, politics, relationships, etc. I don’t think it would be a good thing for the public to know about, honestly. It would probably cause a lot of chaos. People likely would question whether or not anything they do even matters," u/DawsonD43 said.

#13

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation All the “deja vu” moments. Like mf I’ve played this level already

Final score:

85points

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similarly 5 months ago

George Carlin: Vuja de. Not deja vu: vuja de. The feeling that none of this has ever happened to you before.

25points

anon , SHVETS production / pexels Report

#14

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Thinking about something then getting an advertisement for it online.

Final score:

85points

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similarly 5 months ago

Oh, nothing suspicious about that. You can prevent that with tinfoil.

79points

ahtapotvebaykus , Pixabay / pexels Report

#15

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Me asking myself a question about a topic I have no prior knowledge of and the next day a YouTube video appears on my screen answering the exact same question in detail.

Final score:

85points

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Screeching Owl 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's because YouTube listens and/or takes your data from other things to give you better recommendations

55points

Comfortable_Crab_988 , Yan Krukau / pexels Report

"In the end, it’s a fun (and kind of scary) thought experiment. But, the truth of it is, we’ll never know! Maybe a very select few of us will know, but it will never become a known fact that we’re living in a simulation. People don’t like to feel controlled, and I guarantee if they found out they were just a program written, things would get ugly."

#16

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The stupidity of some people makes me believe we are 100 percent in a simulation

Final score:

83points

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similarly 5 months ago

Many people don't realizes that "Cogito ergo sum" had a first part: "Dubito", "I doubt". Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum. I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I exist. According to this philosophical posit, it is not belief that defines thinking, but doubt.

43points

bishophicks , Karolina Kaboompics / pexels Report

#17

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The pens. I used to go to large corporate meetings a few times a year. They gave out pens and notepads to everyone (as if I was going to take notes). I would take pens from empty seats and from coworkers and take them home. A dozen at a time at least. This went on for years. So where are the pens? There should be *hundreds* of them in my home. I should be able to stand anywhere and look in any direction and see a pen, but no.

Final score:

81points

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Widdershins66 5 months ago

Scissors! Scissors! SCISSORS!!! I own hundreds... where are they???

26points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#18

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation We went from the Wright brothers flying the first plane to space missions in roughly 50 years. That’s wild imo. I don’t think people realize how quickly tech evolves.

isluna1003 , Pixabay / pexels Report

Final score:

77points

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similarly 5 months ago

Pfft. I went from crawling on the floor to driving a car in less time than that! Big deal!

100points

What do you think of these theories, dear Pandas? Do you think that we might be living in a simulation? Why (not)? What movies similar to ‘The Matrix’ would you recommend to all the other readers here?

Feel free to tell us all about it in the comments… and if you get an overwhelming feeling of déjà vu, don’t panic—an Agent will soon be with you.

#19

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Monarch Butterflies: A soft tube of goo with tissue-thin wings, and brain smaller than a grain of sand, flitters across an entire continent and back to the exact same tree in less than one year.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration?wprov=sfti1)

anon , Cindy Gustafson / pexels Report

Final score:

73points

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similarly 5 months ago

Maybe its limited brain can't comprehend anything more than returning to that one tree. Maybe in a manner of speaking, that's all that its brain is capable of processing. What if certain insects are not even aware of 3 dimensional space, but (despite being what we perceive to be a 3 dimensional being) are themselves only able to perceive 2 dimensions ...

26points

StorytellerGG , MART PRODUCTION / pexels Report

#20

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Some people getting a head knock and suddenly becoming geniuses. Or people waking from accidents or surgery and speaking with a foreign accent from countries they ve never been to.

Final score:

72points

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Gary Avekukk 5 months ago

Have head trauma and believe Donald Trump would make a good president.....

105points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#21

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation One time some friends and I were playing a game on Steam called TableTop Simulator. Its a game where you can play board games and have to actually move the pieces and such. It had the ability for any player to spawn in any game pieces for any game at any time, theres also an extras category. One of the extras you can spawn in is an iPad.

So we get f****n around and its a functioning iPad. I opened up Andkon Arcade, and tried playing Hex Empire… it worked.

So Im sitting in my game room, on my PC, playing a game on steam, with a VR headset strapped to my face, where Im sitting at a table on an iPad, playing full functioning flash games on that iPad.

I was like “How much deeper does this go than me, is somebody playing me too?”

NoahCWNorrad , Julia M Cameron / pexels Report

Final score:

71points

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similarly 5 months ago

Yes.

31points

Baggabones88 , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report

#22

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Anyone else ever experience this? It happens to me all the time, and with words that are not part of every day speech. I'll have the TV on or YouTube while I'm reading an article and as I'm reading, the video will say a word that I'm reading at the exact time I get to that word. I always forget the word, but most recently it was "masticate." I've used that word maybe once in my life and only ever read it in a book before. But, there are so many examples of this, and every time I'm left thinking, "are you serious?" Seems like something that might happen in a simulation.

Final score:

68points

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Not Who You Think 5 months ago

I thought this only happened to me. Creeps me out every time.

37points

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#23

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation All the times I've "nearly" died.

I've lost count of the number of moments I've had where all I could do was think: "Well, this is it..." and somehow made it through.

One example:

I was turning onto an offramp and got clipped by a bus. I was driving a tiny car (Geo Metro, I think) and the bus spun my little car 360+ in the middle of traffic. When I stopped spinning I was facing perpendicular to traffic with the drivers side facing incoming traffic.

I could see the truck about to hit me. There was literally nothing I could do. My car 'slid' backwards off the road as the truck whipped past me. The driver hit their brakes and nearly ran off the road.

We had a good laugh about it after. But man... Once in a lifetime is weird enough. But the fifth, sixth, etc. time something so surreal happens it's harder and harder it is to accept it as just dumb luck.

Like at this point I've used up all my luck, and at least six or seven other people's dumb luck (sorry).

Ormyr , Gustavo Fring / pexels Report

Final score:

63points

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similarly 5 months ago

Theoretically, you can only REALLY die once. Therefore, anything less than that is "nearly", which can happen an astounding number of times.

32points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#24

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation I can’t remember what it’s called but the scientific phenomenon of particles and photons behaving differently when observed. They aren’t being coded into the environment if no player is observing that area.

Gnostic_Gnocchi , RDNE Stock project / pexels Report

Final score:

56points

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Jill Rhodry 5 months ago

How do we know how they behave when they're not observed though🤔

37points

TheAmazingCrisco , Sam Felde / flickr Report

#25

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation The fact that the fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature.

Final score:

56points

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similarly 5 months ago

Self-similarity and fractal invariance can show up in nature, and there are repeated patterns at different scales of nature. In the same way, math can describe things in nature, but it doesn't mean that nature was somehow built according to mathematical rules.

44points

RedditAccountOhBoy , Ron Lach / pexels Report

#26

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Never seeing my neighbours carrying in groceries.

Final score:

54points

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Gary Avekukk 5 months ago

More creepy is why you have them under surveillance...

75points

Marx0r , World Sikh Organization of Canada / pexels Report

#27

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation I used to work in a pharmacy, so I asked about a hundred people for their name and DOB every day. A couple weeks into the job, I mentioned to a coworker how I hadn't had a single customer with the same birthday as me. Got 4 of them over the next two days.

EDIT: Another time I realized we were living in a simulation was when I said something online and 40 people replied to me saying the exact same wrong thing about the Birthday Paradox or the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Lazy devs copy-pasting code.

Final score:

51points

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similarly 5 months ago

Maybe they were trying to get you to verify something. You know, the quickest way to make someone look up the correct answer for you is to confidently give them the wrong answer.

20points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#28

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation When observed from the surface of the earth, the moon has the exact same diameter as the sun.

It's because the Sun has a diameter about 400 times greater than the Moon, yet is also 400 times further away.

What are the odds of that happening by pure chance?

SuvenPan , Lucas Pezeta / pexels Report

Final score:

49points

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Vix Spiderthrust 5 months ago (edited)

This is backwards thinking. We evolved on a planet where conditions are good for life to evolve, including being a certain distance from the star and having a moon that works well as a meteor shield. So the "odds" of such a coincidence are high, because without it we wouldn't be here to notice it. It's like asking "with eight billion people on Earth, what are the odds that my parents happen to know each other?"

69points

Ok_Relationship_705 , KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA / pexels Report

#29

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation I can sometimes think of a movie or a song. And that b***h either shows up in some form on my suggestions or my actual television.

Final score:

48points

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similarly 5 months ago

Hey, do me a favor: I kinda want to watch The Matrix tonight ...

26points

#30

30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A Simulation Too many things taste like chicken

jdchevygirl , Pixabay / pexels Report

Final score:

36points

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similarly 5 months ago

Not really. There's a theory that if a human is not exposed to a particular shade or tone of a color, or a particular musical tone, or by extension other similar stimuli (such as taste or smell), by age 3, they will never truly recognize it. It will always be classified as the next closest shade, sound, etc. In which case, certain tastes may revert to the next closest taste with which we ARE familiar.

26points

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What do you think ?

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james stevenson 5 months ago

Honestly I don't think any of the OPs have ever heard of science

19points

Game Guy 5 months ago

Yeah. All that and no mention of information physics or the apparent pixelized nature of the observable universe?

8points

CanadianDimes 5 months ago

I think the idea of simulation is just confirmation bias coupled with a brain that’s adapted to seek out patterns. We evolved to live in groups of about 30-50 people and now many of us live in much larger communities so there are a lot more complex interactions and actual coincidences. But our brains interpret coincidences as patterns and pick up on said apparent patterns to the exclusion of things that don’t fit the pattern.

5points

Rocket Surgeon 5 months ago

And you think that's just a COINCIDENCE!?

1point

Natalia 5 months ago

It was fun until all the silly "simulation" bs

4points

Jihana 5 months ago

That was the point of the whole list. So "30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A" was fun, and then you read the last word of the headline and the actual list?

9points

2DB 5 months ago

A lot of these have served in the past as arguments in favor of the reality of a God or Gods unknown creating, running, & ultimately destroying the Universe. It's almost as if the "Simulation" concept were a new version of something very old.

2points

Trev Fontaine 5 months ago

F**k me this is such a bad list! I mean how come having arms isnt proof we are living in a sim. Everything else in the world is

2points

WubiDubi 5 months ago

You only have to jump down the rabbit hole of human vision and how it cheats all the time and fills in gaps and reinterprets before you notice and then you give up looking for meaning around you for a month.

1point

Lyoness 5 months ago

Similar to the ring story above but I was in the first grade. I'd been given a beautiful gold band with a pattern engraved on it as a Christmas gift and as a special treat was allowed to wear it to school. I was 6, so naturally I lost it. This did not go over well at home. A full year later I was in a bathroom stall at school and I looked down and right in the far corner was my ring. Those bathrooms were cleaned every night by the janitors and somehow the ring ended up where they missed it. I still can't believe the odds of finding it but I'm grateful because today my daughter wears it.

1point

HTakeover 5 months ago

There's also a character face generator; barring things like physical trauma, surgery, genetic defect, etc. there are only about 15 different nose shapes , 6 eye shapes, a dozen chin shapes, and so on. Once you've seen 'em all, you start noticing certain combinations on repeat. Sure, you can say it's because of dominant genes but we all know it's a character generator ;)

1point

moeless 5 months ago

Everything that has ever happened, that is happening, or that will happen...has already happened. We are just seeing it being reeled out. Imagine trying to take it in if everything were to hit at one time.

0points

Josh David Whitmore 5 months ago

The unparallelled beauty of Kate Upton. GOT to be a sim!

0points

Josh David Whitmore 5 months ago

Tom Cruise being a huge star. In a REAL universe, this could not happen.

0points

Dave Hinckley 5 months ago

I think the coders would have noticed posts like this and fixed it

0points

Mike m 5 months ago

I don't think this is a sim, i think it's hell.

0points

Floeckchen 5 months ago

...So many supersticions, cognitive dissonances and all kinds of fallacies and in this list...

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PFD 5 months ago

The Matrix. Hear me out: ok, tech advances to the point where the idea of a computer simulation becomes a popular idea, right? Then suddenly there's *a movie about it*. That's obviously lampshading, a common authorial device. Hence, it proves the existence of a scriptwriter. QED. (Don't bother trying to point out logical fallacies here, logic is just a set of hard-coded parameters in the simulation so you'll only be providing more proof.)

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Jackie Lulu 5 months ago

Never heard of 'lampshading ' before. Is that something like gaslighting?

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Major Harris 5 months ago

had my own. was listening to "the best of john lennon" cd in my car one day. the song, "woman" came on and i sang along to it. next day, listening to the same cd, and "woman" did not play? when i stopped at my destination, looked at the playlist and that song is NOT on this disc!

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HTakeover 5 months ago

People have stat points (strength, charisma, perception, etc.), meaning some people have higher stats in certain areas. But people can increase those based on certain actions, even including seemingly unchangeable/intangible ones like Luck or Heart.

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Robert Millar 5 months ago

The easiest kind of simulation would be just you. Everything else would be simulated and created on the fly just for you. Even your free will would be a part of it.

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John Harrison 5 months ago

This is the kind of article that appeals to folks that arent good critical thinkers.

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Shine Chisholm (they/ them) 5 months ago

Or it's fun thought experiments

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james stevenson 5 months ago

Honestly I don't think any of the OPs have ever heard of science

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Game Guy 5 months ago

Yeah. All that and no mention of information physics or the apparent pixelized nature of the observable universe?

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CanadianDimes 5 months ago

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Rocket Surgeon 5 months ago

And you think that's just a COINCIDENCE!?

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Natalia 5 months ago

It was fun until all the silly "simulation" bs

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Jihana 5 months ago

That was the point of the whole list. So "30 Creepy Things That Might Prove This Life Is A" was fun, and then you read the last word of the headline and the actual list?

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2DB 5 months ago

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Trev Fontaine 5 months ago

F**k me this is such a bad list! I mean how come having arms isnt proof we are living in a sim. Everything else in the world is

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WubiDubi 5 months ago

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Lyoness 5 months ago

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HTakeover 5 months ago

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moeless 5 months ago

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Josh David Whitmore 5 months ago

The unparallelled beauty of Kate Upton. GOT to be a sim!

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Josh David Whitmore 5 months ago

Tom Cruise being a huge star. In a REAL universe, this could not happen.

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Dave Hinckley 5 months ago

I think the coders would have noticed posts like this and fixed it

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Mike m 5 months ago

I don't think this is a sim, i think it's hell.

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Floeckchen 5 months ago

...So many supersticions, cognitive dissonances and all kinds of fallacies and in this list...

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PFD 5 months ago

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Jackie Lulu 5 months ago

Never heard of 'lampshading ' before. Is that something like gaslighting?

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