DIES WIRD IHR VERSTÄNDNIS DER REALITÄT VERÄNDERN

Perhaps you have seen the viral videos, many of which claim to be disturbances in our reality. Inexplicable events that prove that we live in a simulated world. The idea may sound like a loose entertainment, which one hears from the view of Matrix. But in fact, it has recently become the subject of serious academic debates. Especially since 2016, when the famous technology entrepreneur Elon Musk self-evidently stated in front of a large audience that reality is most likely a computer simulation carried out by advanced intelligence. He gave an absolutely reasonable explanation for this. 40 years ago we had Pong, two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D, where millions play at the same time. Musk explained that the technological progress in video games was so phenomenal in just 40 years that it is clear that they can no longer be distinguished from reality. Which means that the probability that we are currently in a basic reality is 1 in millions. Could it be true that life is just a cruel joke and that everything we see, say, touch, smell and think here is hardly more than a highly developed video game in which we believe we have a free will? As it turns out, this concept was examined both on the basis of an old spiritual as well as a current scientific model. The different perspectives merge in Thomas W. Campbell's book The Big Theory of Everything or The Big Toe, where the simulation theory becomes the most convincing and logical answer to questions that have long existed about the nature of reality. They explore the idea that their life is a simulation that serves a higher intelligence and a school for their consciousness. Where they make their conclusion when they discover that everything they experience is projected from their inner self. A simulation is by definition a simulation of a situation or a process. In addition to video games, simulations are mainly used for training under unique or extreme conditions. Advanced simulations could therefore be reminiscent of silly-looking glasses. Instead of their invention, the ultimate goal of the simulation, however, is to hack the brain neurologically to simulate virtual reality directly in it. This means that the characters would believe they were independent and alive, but in reality just virtual creations. Could this have already happened? Could our entire reality be virtual? According to old wisdom, yes. The theory that reality is not real dates back thousands of years. Take, for example, the Tao, which describes a mysterious, luminous unit that lays the foundations for all things and sustains them. It is inaccessible for normal thinking, speech or perception, but omnipresent. In Hinduism, the word maya means impractical or deception. It is the state in which the mind holds the innumerable forms of the world for real, without understanding the unity that connects them all. Yoga Vasistha says, the world is nothing more than a mere vibration of consciousness in space. It seems to exist, just as a cobalt seems to exist in the eyes of the unknowing. All this is just maya. Because here there is no contradiction between the infinite consciousness and the apparent existence of the universe. It is like the wonderful dream of a awake person. In the Kabbalah, the world in which we live is referred to by the Suhah as Alma D'Shikra, which means the world of illusion or the world of lies. In Buddhism, reality is seen as a projection that arises from the realization of karmic seeds, which are called Sankaras. The author Don Miguel Ruiz reports on the wisdom of the Toltecs, an old Mexican culture. He says the following, The Toltecs believed that life was a dream and that we always dream, even when we are awake. It is as if we were playing along in our own film and following a script that we write ourselves. Everyone around us plays along in their own film that is based on their ideas of the world. The Toltecs actually said, Every person is an artist. The dream of their life is to create beautiful art. Obviously, illusions and dreams are continuous themes in our old spiritual texts. When we enter the technical age, however, the dream turned into the word simulation and the concept of higher intelligence, or push-buttons, got a new life. Some called the creator of future people, extraterrestrial or even artificial intelligence. Of course, the question remains, what is that? And if it is true, can we know it? A brilliant writer, Philip K. Dick, thought he might have found the answer. On a normal way on a February day in 1974, the little-known science fiction author Philip K. Dick was at home after an oral surgery. He painfully awaited the delivery of his medication and listened to the Beatles song, Strawberry Fields Forever. Finally it rang at the door and when he opened it, he experienced an overwhelming revelation like he had never experienced before when he stared at the woman's fishnet standing at the door. Dick described this moment as an invasion of a transcendent higher spirit. He said, there was timelessness and he was thoughtless without consciousness, but completely distorted by information. It was a moment of pure consciousness and he said he saw the universe as it is. Dick said, a bioplasmic, organ-like energy penetrated me or arose in me and caused changes. An enormous miracle and an increased consciousness let me see another universe. I experienced an invasion of my spirit by a transcendental rational mind. As if I had been crazy all my life and suddenly became mentally healthy. In this euphoric state, Dick described several parallel realities, timelines that coexisted with our present. The hallucinations increased in length and frequency in the following month and he began to experience something that he identified as parallel life as the man Thomas, a Christian in the first century AD. He described how he was persecuted by the Romans and remembered Jesus. During such an episode, Dick spoke the language perfectly, although he had never learned Latin, as his close friend testified, who mastered the language. Another result of this revelation was that Philip K. Dick began to become clairvoyant. In such an extent, he was able to guess a life-threatening state that plagued his little son, which confirmed itself after the child was admitted to the hospital. This prediction saved the baby's life. During the month of these increased moments of consciousness, Dick tried to convey the wisdom he received in writing. And he stood by no less than 9,000 pages, which today are known as the exegesis of Philip K. Dick. Perhaps the most fascinating part of his story is the conclusion he drew from it. He said, We live in a computer program reality and the only clue we have to it is when a variable changes and a change occurs in our reality that creates a deja vu. These impressions are valuable and important. When some variables have changed, an alternative world is created. While many critics have assumed that Dick was the result of a drug-induced hallucination, his content was thoroughly investigated and he was the subject of TED Talks, and he is not alone. Many authors and spiritual authorities share similar revelations. For example, Byron Katie, whose book Loving What Is was written after a similar revelation that was about reaching the ground and observing how a cockroach crawled over it. Eckhart Tolle, whose book The Power of Now was written after a revelation that was about a new perception of reality. Anita Murtiani, who experienced an out-of-body state when she was dying, described how she saw the alternative timelines that were not included in her life and that would still come. She described it as if in a huge warehouse, where she had led her life only from the perspective of a flashlight, floodlights were switched on. In these life-changing moments, all these authors felt an increased sense of peace, wisdom and understanding. A contemporary version of the theory of life simulation was introduced in 2003 by a British philosopher named Nicholas Bostrom at the University of Oxford. To put it simply, he argued that in view of the current state of the creation of computer simulations, one of the following results must be met in relation to them. First, the human being will die before he can carry out simulations. Second, future humans will, for whatever reasons, decide not to continue developing the simulation. Third, he lives in a computer simulation. Bostrom considers the first two unlikely and believes that advanced civilizations of the future would carry out equally advanced computer simulations of past civilizations, which he calls ancestor simulations, to study ourselves. He calculated the numbers to prove that a computer system the size of a large planet is actually the total human consciousness for all living beings that has been able to simulate on Earth since the beginning of time. For the same reasons, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson believes that we live in a simulation. He says, because we have the power to program a whole world in a computer, imagine a future in which we can create characters that recognize that they exist independently of their creators and then create their own simulations, which means that there are now simulations, insider simulations, all the way down. So, says Tyson, how likely is it that they are at the top of the ultimate reality? They were probably created by a highly developed extraterrestrial basement dweller, or their creator is perhaps better known as a simulated computer nerd. Perhaps the best explanation for this theory comes from a scientist and physicist named Thomas W. Campbell. With impressive references, including the specialization in experimental nuclear physics, Campbell worked for decades in the defense industry, for the Army's technical intelligence service and later in US missile defense. In his biology, My Big Toe, an acronym for My Big Theory of Everything, Campbell delivers flawless logic that explains how a multitude of seemingly unnatural and contradictory events like these actually make sense if we understand that consciousness is simply information and we generate perception from our consciousness. Our eyes receive light, our ears receive sounds, it's all information. These electric impulses end in neurological patterns, but if they are in a dark cave, their brain could still receive the same pattern of neuronal simulation through its imagination. Perception is generated inside the brain, and I only receive a shadow of error, so I have to interpret what they say or do. Nobody experiences exactly the same reality. We all receive and generate different information and are all part of this larger uniform consciousness system. So to speak, only parts of it. Separate constructs in a uniform field. It's a multiplayer game, exactly like World of Warcraft, with our own independent data stream. If consciousness is a pure data field that is self-aware and develops, it can exist in two states. A system that is aware of these states and a system that is not aware of these states. Different actors, because they are part of us, interact with the perception of free will. Our relationships help the system to develop. The goal of a virtual game is to win by experiencing challenges that are then mastered. The virtual physical reality is our schoolhouse. We are characters that develop in consciousness, Campbell says. The theory combines contradictory concepts when we understand and assume that we live in a dream that we create, like physics with metaphysics and the normal with the paranormal. Everything that is an anomaly makes sense when you realize that you create it yourself. In his famous TED talk, Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality, from 2017, the cognitive neuroscientist Aniel Seth claimed. Hallucination is an uncontrolled perception. Perception is a controlled hallucination. These simplified explanations of the simulation theory hardly scratch the surface of this complex topic. But the philosophy in Jeff Streets' upcoming book The Grounds of Existence, available on his website divine-cosmos.net, is put into simple language. In it, he explains that consciousness is the ultimate computer-generated symbolic representation of reality. How the requisites in our world are imaginary, the experiences we make are very real, the strengthening understanding that we, as information units, cannot take damage by any games that we call life in this thing we call life. Streets also explains that suffering is actually the best incentive for growth and development, to learn compassion, not to learn to judge, and to master our belief system. Streets also explains that suffering is actually the best incentive for growth and development, to learn compassion, not to learn to judge, and to master our belief system. Streets also explains that suffering is actually the best incentive for growth and development, to learn compassion, not to learn to judge,