Comment by adastra22
3 years ago
No, we are not? I am confused what definition you are using. If the Matrix were real, you would say the Matrix is base reality?
3 years ago
No, we are not? I am confused what definition you are using. If the Matrix were real, you would say the Matrix is base reality?
I think his point is that even if we're technically in a simulation, we very likely do not have access to any exterior world.
Thus, in some sense, this is base reality "by definition" - that reality beyond which you cannot find anything else.
I don't agree, but it's a reasonable way to think about it (if that is in fact what OP meant).
We do though. It's pretty easy to have an out of body experience within about twenty days of trying. NDE phenomena has just too much data to dismiss if you give it a fair consideration. We get glimpses that there's more when you dig into the latest from Nima Arkani-Hamed. Donald Hoffman is a bit more of a stretch but his assertion that there's no way we can percieve true reality is solid.
Take some LSD and you can fly on the moon. Doesn’t mean it actually happened tho.
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I agree that NDEs are weird and give some hints that _something_ is out there.
I think it more likely NDEs are a hint that the supernatural isn't fiction than that they're a consequence of being simulated.
Per the above discussion, though, if NDEs are a hint that we're in a simulation, they don't necessarily give us any access to the exterior reality. They could just as easily be part of the simulation as something outside of it (as could OBEs).