Simulation Theory, or the #Simulation hypothesis, is not #panpsychism, Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of #quantum mechanics, or any other kind of materialism.
It is a type of #Idealism. And it doesn't require a sentient observer-creator as George Berkeley thought.
@ai_smq @Buster1978Ca@AlchemyRadio @BernardoKastrup Bentov also talks about an "observer," which I think is a good way to delineate the you that is not your body. He describes in detail some of the clicking-out process. But in preparing for this sharing, I discovered to my chagrin that my copy of Pendulum is incomplete!...
@ai_smq @ChickEffect @Buster1978Ca I shared some of this book with you via images. It's the first source in the Gateway bibliography. I have an incomplete copy, but the '77 edition is readily available.
We think of space and time as fundamental, as the preexisting stage on which the drama of life plays out. But spacetime does not behave like a stage, and many physicists now doubt that it is fundamental. Spacetime, it seems, is doomed. What might be more fundamental?
The parasitic machine overlords from The Matrix exist today, but they are not metal and silicone objects with specific location(s). They are the megacorporations.
Will Apple becomes the Levi Strauss & Co of its industry, once so good that its products were literally synonymous with jeans, but now a self-ghostbranded simulacrum of that?
@AnomalyResUK@amybruni@TxUFOSightings Carl Sagan's explanation of Flatland and higher dimensions in Cosmos should be required viewing for all people interested in Fortean mysteries.