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. 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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