Ask HN: What if we had to come back?

4 points | by sans_souse 34 minutes ago

5 comments

  • andsoitis 19 minutes ago

    > "reality is a simulation"

    A simulated universe requires everything an ordinary universe requires, plus a simulator.

    Absent independent evidence for the simulator, “we are simulated” is a less parsimonious hypothesis than “the world we observe is the world.”

  • andsoitis 17 minutes ago

    > reality is a simulation"

    If simulation theory is compatible with every possible observation, it predicts nothing—and a hypothesis that predicts nothing gives us no reason to believe it.

  • N_Lens 28 minutes ago

    To me it's evident that consciousness doesn't end with the death of the physical body.

    It's foolish to think that in this fractal, endlessly repeating Universe that's billions of years old and unfathomably vast - you only live as tiny organism, not even a small cell, for the blink of an eye.

  • throwawaysleep 19 minutes ago

    It wouldn't change a thing.

    People have to live in their bodies. Do they care for them? No.

  • toomuchtodo 20 minutes ago