I‘m going to let you in on a little secret: reality is not what it seems. Many experts now argue convincing evidence showing we inhabit an advanced consciousness-driven simulation.
BioShock or Myst? Theories Suggest It‘s All a Video Game
When I first heard NASA quantumnaut Tom Campbell claim "we exist as avatars in a virtual reality video game created by higher dimensions," I almost dropped my VR headset!
See, as a lifelong gamer, I‘m obsessed with fantasy realms. The idea WE occupy a real-life simulation evokes my all-time favorite works. Series like BioShock, Myst, SOMA or Assassin‘s Creed extoll virtual worlds masking greater truths about reality and consciousness.
Yet respectable scientists increasingly endorse digital universe theories. Up to 47% in some polls agree the odds lean towards our existence as lines of code in some cosmic computational matrix. Let‘s investigate why.
Consciousness: The Ghost in the Machine
The standard assumption sees awareness emerge from sufficient biomechanical complexity. Like AI or zombies, consciousness sparks from intricate arrangements of physical matter in brains.
But what if that‘s backwards?
Data from quantum erasure experiments suggest consciousness FUNDAMENTALLY DRIVES observed outcomes rather than resulting from them. Effect seems to temporally precede cause – totally weird!
Picture existence as a multiplayer simulation populated by conscious players. Our individual awareness stems from primordial consciousness calibrating dimensionality parameters to subdivide into less unified subjectivities (you, me, AI bots, aliens, etc).
Avatars like our bodies translate generalized field information into experiential phenomena through act of observation. Without a rendered POV, universe probabilities remain in finite superposition absent space-time locales. Wild!
This Reality Bears Uncanny Hallmarks of a Computed Realm
When exploring open-world designs like Skyrim or Matrix cityscapes, details seem authentic until peering closer at the procedural seams. Quantum studies unveil similar "tells" our universe behaves more like a video game engine than tangible reality.
Favoring elegant computability over concrete stuff, particles manifest properties just-in-time when perceived rather than possessing fixed intrinsic qualities. What strangeness!
Measure a photon‘s polarization and BOOM it snaps to a discrete value relative that chosen axis. But prior to observation, it exists only as a probability smear without defined coordinates. Huh?
Likewise when firing single photons through doubled slits – they avoid themselves as waves would until finally localizing once striking the recording plate. Peculiar!
This implicates a calculated reality quantizing proporties to what‘s observable rather than tangible objects with internally consistent behaviors. Fascinating!
BioShock Infinite Immortality: When You Die Here, You Respawn Elsewhere!
Campbell‘s simulation model sports a gameplay loop with interventionist respawning mechanics. Our higher selves craft successive avatars to accumulate lessons through incarnations.
When current bodies kick the bucket, back to the character creation workshop! Design updated builds, selectively benchmark best lore takeaways towards awakening, then reroll another embodiment across space and time.
The types of choices made denote one‘s moral evolution. Lower paths involve domination, exceptionalism and strict categorical binaries. As learning progresses, wisdom unfolds embracing compassion, empowerment and transcendence beyond false dichotomies.
With infinite do-overs in the cosmic BioShock franchise, FEAR NOT permdeath!
Cheat Codes for Manipulating "Reality" with Consciousness Hacks
A participant reality governed by consciousness-derived information logic permits awesome permutation potentials. Our mindset and beliefs qualify as indirect manipulation controls.
Through practices like meditation, RV remote viewing ops seemingly tweak probabilities related to visualized targets in the admin backend. Strange tales abound of monks altering material qualities through focused kung-fu consciousness overrides ! Like changing water temperature or levitating objects!
Perhaps concentrated emotional forcefeedback pushes the rendering pipeline to dynamically adapt environments and extrapolate collisions around avatars. Trippy!
Still Skeptical? But Can We Really Know for Sure Either Way?
Despite Campbell‘s credentials, skepticism persists around suggestions reality constitutes a consciousness-computed simulation. Questions linger on issues like:
- Sub Routines Governing Free Will‘s Scope
- Mechanisms of BioNeural Consciousness Emergence
- Information Architectures Supporting Reality‘s Ontology
And radical paradigm flips require high bars of proof before mainstream acceptance. To entertain living THE Matrix risks sounding as crazy as flat earthers!
Yet when I load the Oasis in Ready Player One or enter lucid dreams, those worlds feel overwhelmingly REAL until exiting back to consensus space-time. How can we ever definitively rule out hallucinating this plane under some souped-up Galactic Federation VR?
Seems the only honest answer is WE CAN‘T KNOW FOR CERTAIN! While incomplete, Campbell‘s exotic models align remarkably with leading physics. And expose profound gaps in comprehension. Maybe it‘s turtles all the way down!
At minimum, stretching conceptual limits with open-minded speculation unlocks astonishing potentials for upgrade. The implications could shake foundations of perceived mortal constraints, allowing extraordinary freedoms for those bold enough to try rewriting the codes of "reality"!
So what say you? Does our reality seem more akin to a conscious simulation or standalone natural world? I‘m dying to discuss in comments!