SoCT Capsuleer Gathering: CONCORD's Call to Arms

Actually, the math’s pretty solid: Once any universe contains the technological capacity to simulate a universe within a virtual construct, the odds of an observer occupying the actual, non-simulated universe are vanishingly small. See, the problem is: once you can simulate a universe… your simulated universe can develop to the point of being able to simulate a universe… and that simulated universe will develop to the point of… well.

Yeah. Once you get there, it’s turtles all the way down.

Mind you, the ability to accurately simulate an entire universe may be impossible. After all, to do it right, you’d need to be able to plot the position and vector of every particle in that universe. Which would take a computer of greater complexity than a universe.

So it’s a question of ‘can it be done?’

If yes… then the odds are good that you’re in it.

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Oh please, this is reality! Not some cliche science fiction novel. Our universe was created by the powers of the divine. Every planet, star and organism is apart of a natural cycle that would be impossible to replicate unless you weilded the power the Maker himself has.

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Actually it’s pretty easy to replicate, at least visually.

And you can’t tell the difference.

Consider how quickly that thought came to you. Maybe that’s just your programmed response?

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What am I? Some kind of mindless machine? I’m a human, not some worthless drone.

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You replied pretty quickly, didn’t you?

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As a human, am I not allowed to have a response on hand? You didn’t exactly ask a billion ISK question.

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Or you’re a simulation of a human that’s designed to insist it’s not a drone.

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Suspiciously specific denial.

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You pilots need Wayism in your life…

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Wayism isn’t meant to be evangelized.

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Probably not in the State, where your job is your religion and the Mega-corporations are your gods. Gotta stay focused on the true faith, right?

But I believe it’s now safe to say we’ve gotten off track and should return focus to the subject of the thread.

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Are you trying to say that is not the way?

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You do not know the way. Thus I shall show you da way…Which leads back to the main subject of this thread

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Like sadness, cold in this case describes a feeling, or an abstract concept.

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Hm. Something I take a lot of comfort in is that while I exist within this universe, I don’t think of it as something that exists for my sake. Or any of ours. We’re just kind of plunked down in it and left to our own devices.

It’s indifferent to us, and apparently to everything, but, that’s not its fault. It’s not a moral actor. It’s just a place.

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I guess I should clarify that my musings did not mean the literal universe, but what some would experience as the universe - that mostly intangible feeling of lifeforce that permeates this tiny part of it that we occupy. The combined spiritual essence of the trillions of people who live here.

The universe, and the sheer, utter vastness of it is incomprehensible to beings such as us. Only entities we would consider gods can perhaps grasp and survive the spirit-crushing totality of the universe.

So, when I get in to despair event horizon where I bemoan the sadness and coldness of the universe, it is because I am once again reminded of being reduced to the state of a child who finally understands that stories she was told were just that, stories, and not real.

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