Life after death in simulations

I think this involves science because futuristic video games can be explained with science.

These ideas also have some things in common with religions.

Some examples related to life after death in simulations:

The Matrix - normally no life after death - if you die in the Matrix you die in real life

The Roy game from Rick and Morty - you wake up in the video game arcade


Alan Watts’ dream thought experiment - you wake up in your dream world

The last example can be implemented using simulations where you initially have "God-mode" and the time travels more quickly (like in the Roy game and Inception).

Something like the Roy game could be played multiple times and could explain deja vu (theoretically).

excreationist said:

I think this involves science because futuristic video games can be explained with science.

These ideas also have some things in common with religions.

Something like the Roy game could be played multiple times and could explain deja vu (theoretically).

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Or parallel universes could fit here, where each universe has certain absolute 'identical moments' syncing in time, which for lack of better description, resonates in unison, producing like a 'echo feedback' running through all universes, perhaps resulting the individual, who's having the deja vu experience, to see through the 'other you' in the other parallel universe - as the echo is received through your senses, precisely at the moment the identical event is happening in your universe.

( I 'sort of' see this a little similar, as how the biblical God may see 'all' the choices in life is chosen, and all the different turnouts that have resulted, by that one person... hence why from the biblical view... the decisions are ours alone to make. God sees all your outcomes, you chose the one that gets set in stone.)

As far as deja vu goes I've never thought it had any paranormal implications. My example of the Roy game wasn't very well thought out. In the Roy game it would always begin in the same way (i.e. maximum deja vu) and as time goes on it would diverge due to the player making different choices and I think there would be randomness in the game.

Those things you're talking about such as parallel universes and God seeing all possibilities are possible within a simulation but I think would be very unlikely.