Or, am I really the butterfly and this is the simulation?
Someone else said it better, but I wanted to link in my man Zhuangzi.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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The interesting thing is that dreams are what the mind can do, without the boundaries of reality, such as gravity. This is why electronic devices almost never work in dreams as your mind can't simulate the logic of their behaviour.
I dreamt last night that shortly after falling asleep, my dad woke me up because there was a shoot out across the street at the bank. In reality, earlier that night there was a car accident in the intersection, so there were cops and firetrucks all over the place, but it's right in front of a bank so the first though I had seeing all the cops in front of the bank was that it was being robbed. My dream just simulated my earlier thoughts. lol
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According to some prominent theories, the world of our waking experience is itself a mental simulation of sorts.
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There’s a related theory that dreams basically prevent this mental simulation from overfitting our experience, so our brains are always primed to accept the unpredictable.
I mean, the real world does actually exist. But we only experience a simulation of it, created by our brain based on data from our senses. So yes, we live in a simulation, but it does correspond to reality behind it.
That could explain my dream about setting up a projector in a room with a poisonous atmosphere, where everyone except me has a space suit...
Which vault was that again?