Reality Does not Exist.

Thinking about what reality is has the power to give you headaches, but not an answer. So are we going to find out about the truth of the fabric of nature? What compels the planets and stars to seek something else close to it that scientists call gravitation? Why does light shy away from mass and travel the fastest? Why is it urged to remove the darkness?

Thinking about all this, it makes no sense. I do not mean that these phenomenas don't make any sense, but the overall reason behind the million of intricate reasons does not add up. To put it simply, why does anything exist?

So what am I? What are my friends and family and what are you? You have a body and a life mixed with a concoction of feelings that sometimes resembles a delightful, scrumptious and quenching nectar and sometimes a mismatched horror. What if I told you that there is no such thing as you?

The brain in a jar

Everything you feel, hear, say, see, experience is all due to that brain of yours that sits in your skull. All the other organs are mere receptors, working under the dictatorship of the brain, doing what they are told. So what if someone took your brain out and kept it in a jar. Would you be able to tell that you are not in a body? You won't.

Since all the senses "make sense" after they have been registered in your brain, it is correct to say that everything that happens, happens inside your brain? If your brain was kept inside a jar and the areas of the brain such as the Broca's area, the occipital region, pre-frontal lobe, etc were stimulated, you'd experience everything normally.

A terribly simplified version of this process is this. If I have your brain in a jar that I can control (I don't have it...or do I?), to make you feel you are drinking coffee, I'll merely stimulate the regions of your brain that can make you taste it, feel the hotness of it, the texture of it. There would be no way for you to tell the difference. How could you? You cannot go out of your brain and see something.

But what if this is the case with the universe? Like we are bound to the brain, we are also bound to the universe? The time, matter, causality, everything makes sense inside the cosmos. Outside it, all these does not make any rational and understandable. There may be many things outside our universe, even different worlds and life, but they won't make sense because they are not meant for us. It is similar to trying to feel the temperature of something just be looking at it. It cannot be done.

What if we are in a simulation?

Oh no no, we are not in a simulation, we are the simulation. So don't consider human or life special. The universe could be a testing subject to see how far life can go and what it become if some variable have such values, like gravitational constant or the speed of light.

What if the multiple universes that we think of are just another experimental universes that are just as lucky as we are? I don't understand why many people are repelled by this concept. I don't care if I am a simulation because it does not change the world or the people around me. People still hate me and ignore me, so what's the point of worrying.

So if the world and the universe is just a simulation, surely the Gods cannot keep the program running forever. There must be an end for this experiment. Could that be on us? To make something new and kill everyone of us? Or maybe they are waiting to see if we can figure out what's going on. The day we find out we are a simulation, we'll be done. Whatever it is, end will come.

What does it mean?

Scientifically? People would be happier to attach a "fiction" after science to this idea. Philosophically? A lot. The whole meaning of reality changes. All your friends, family, memories are just some electrical simulation. Cruel for you, who-knows-what for who-knows-who. The point I'm trying to make is know one knows where we are, why we are and where we are. Bye