Simulation? Not Buying It.

Synaspsial Reality?

Further to certain comments made on Facebook and elsewhere about the universe being a simulation, let me add my take on that.  Firstly, that notion ain’t new; Hinduism identified the world as being Shiva’s dream eons ago.  And Buddhism considers reality merely an outpouring of the unified Universal mind.  Carl Jung amplified that idea as well. And recently we discover that all stories – in every book, myth or movie ever conceived – contain one or more variations of only six plots.  By definition, that would have to include the whole of human experience, wouldn’t it?

So in stories from the Bible to Shakespeare to Spielberg, we only get six plots?  Is the human mind really that limited?  Wouldn’t a simulation developer give us at least a few more variations so we could broaden our view, our very concept, of the universe?

Yeah, I think so, too.

So while we humans are relatively new at creating reality with only 1s and 0s, some other vaguely defined omnipotent being has done a marvelous job of creating an expanding, mind-bending universe, transcending our limited dimensional view of it.   Perhaps only when we can intellectually deconstruct and understand the vibrant, living soup in which we live, we can fully appreciate the originator of the "simulation."

Sim?  Not buying it.