Simulation Theory: Is Reality And Life As We Know It Merely A Simulation?

First of all, before we get into this theory we must first define and clarify what a simulation is. A computer creates a simulation and its main objective is to be as real as possible, break the barrier between reality and virtual reality for the purpose of study. So the theory is that way, way, way into the future, people were curious and wanted to see what life in the past was like. Since their technology is so much more advanced than ours they were able to replicate or ‘simulate’ a life that imitates ours completely. One of the smartest and most successful men in the world Elon Musk believes that this theory is real; he wholeheartedly believes that there is a 1 in a billion chance that we as civilisation are NOT in a simulation.

46 years ago, we made the first video game PONG ever made; this game consisted of just 2 simple rectangles and a dot. Skip 50 years into the future and here we have photo realistic 3D games, millions of people playing at a time and only gets better and better every year. With this advance in technology in the gaming world it wouldn’t be inconceivable to think that 50 years into the future that technology like this would be available for us. Furthermore, things that we can’t explain in life like; ghosts, astral projection, psychics and déjà vu are all just glitches in the simulation. Scientists have tried to figure out déjà vu for years and have still gotten nowhere near to figuring it out, again it can not be inconceivable to think that maybe it is a glitch. If you think about it, almost every video game glitches, like in The Sims the sims may get stuck in walls or in Call Of Duty the players keep running into walls or freezing, it’s almost impossible for you to create a game and not have a glitch somewhere within the game.

- Nadia Raisianzadeh