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Testing the Limits of Reality
If reality is a simulation, is there a way of testing the limits of all we know? Can we break reality?
One of the cool things about Minecraft is that you can make things. Really sophisticated things. Using just the common ingredients, people have made functioning calculators and computers. They have even built contraptions to slow down servers rendering multiplayer games unplayable. They’re called lag machines. If we live in a simulated world, could we build a lag machine? Is there already a lag machine evidenced in nature? Yes. Yes there is.
Spacetime is the reality we find ourselves in. There are data points that say this is not the real world. That includes Near Death Experiences, reincarnation, most religious explanation points, and even scientists that have suggested we live in a simulation. Good scientists.
Just running the numbers suggest we are more likely to be in a simulation than in base reality. Consider how primitive our present simulations are. Primitive or not, there are many simulations. I dare say most people in the world are already using a simulation. Not just gaming.
Your computer, phone, television, your smart watch, your car, all of these have an operating system. The…
