Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Virtually Real


At the heart of much speculative fiction (and fiction in general) is a question. What if? On Tuesdays I like to throw one out there and see what you make of it. Do with it as you please. If a for-instance is not specified, feel free to interpret that instance as you wish. And if you find this becomes a novel-length answer, I'd appreciate a thank you in the acknowledgements. 😉

What if all of this (*gestures to the world at large*) is just a simulation? (No, really, physicists think it might be.) 

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  1. BathwaterApril 26, 2022 at 8:59 AM

    I wouldn't be surprised. It definitely is more than we currently know.

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    1. Liz A.April 26, 2022 at 11:28 AM

      I don't know if that would make me feel better or not.

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  2. Afshan ShaikApril 26, 2022 at 10:08 AM

    I alwyas suspected we may b living in a matrix! or may be being controlled by Aliens :P

    Dropping by from a to z "The Pensive"

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    1. Liz A.April 26, 2022 at 11:29 AM

      There may be a reason The Matrix resonated with so many.

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  3. J E OneilApril 26, 2022 at 12:08 PM

    Then I'd like to file a bug report. It is horribly broken.

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  4. AlanaApril 26, 2022 at 2:27 PM

    There's a book on the best seller list right now, Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel, that explores that very topic. I enjoyed the first Matrix movie very much. As a long time SF reader, it wouldn't surprise me at all. I just hope that the creators of our universe simulation don't decide to pull the plug on us.

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    1. Liz A.April 26, 2022 at 2:41 PM

      What would happen if they did pull the plug? Would we cease to be? Or would we exist someplace else?

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  5. KristinApril 26, 2022 at 5:28 PM

    I don't think it would matter one way or the other. We still have the lives we are living to live.

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  6. peppylady (Dora)April 26, 2022 at 9:02 PM

    I wish they would change the scene totally.
    Coffee is on and stay safe

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  7. StrayerApril 26, 2022 at 11:18 PM

    Sometimes I think maybe we're small organisms, teensy ones, living in a huge body. We can't see it because we're way too small. The earth itself (and universe as we see it from our size perspective and location) could be a particle floating in the fluids of a huge body. It's all in the scale and perspective.

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  8. Pradeep NairApril 27, 2022 at 12:36 AM

    The divide between the simulated and the real anyway looks quite blurred often.

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  9. Su-sieee! MacApril 27, 2022 at 9:14 AM

    What? It’s not someone’s dream were traipsing through?

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  10. frank pattonApril 27, 2022 at 10:26 AM

    People keep trying to explain existence, thinking they have done it. New technology seems to drive new ideas of existence always trying to look back in time for their answers, only coming up with new questions. It’s all gobbled gook, did you know you can buy gobbled gook on the web? Google it.

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    1. Liz A.April 27, 2022 at 12:05 PM

      I don't think we'll ever figure it out. I don't know if I really want to.

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