Do you think any aliens exist in the universe?

[steve_bank]

Understanding Psychosis

This fact sheet presents information on psychosis including causes, signs and symptoms, treatment, and resources for help.

www.nimh.nih.gov

What is psychosis?

Psychosis refers to a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality. During an episode of psychosis, a person’s thoughts and perceptions are disrupted and they may have difficulty recognizing what is real and what is not.

There are now vast global net communities that mentally dwell almost exclusivity in the fantasy world of video games.

From mental health reporting they can lose the ability to communicate with fellow human beings face to face. Difficulty having simple conversations.

In the the 19th century American west if you could not tell the difference between reality and dreams or fantasy the odds were you died. Unless you had family to take care of you.

You can start calling dreams a simulation alluding to the universes as a simulation, but I call that tripping. Don't know if the word is used any more.

Simulation Theory becomes like a theology. Instead of a god or gods or spirits controlling reality it is advanced beings who creatd a simulation.

Like Christians who use the word god without definition, one imagines advanced creators of the salutation.

If gods are reflections of their human creators, then the imagined creators of a simulation we are part of are also reflections of us humans.

The claim of an unknown creator of a simulation we are in is the same as a claim of a god creating the universe.

Same question as I have in the determinism vs free will threads.

If it is free will or determinism that is true, what do you do when faced with decisions?


And back to the perennial thousands of years old question 'what is reality?'

 

[pood]

I haven’t time to plow through all this right now cuz I am getting ready to watch the simulated World Series. So again to home in on the key question:

You actually believe you are conscious but that most (all?) others are p-zombies?

I mean, holy fuck, dude.

Sorry, I am not a p-zombie. Nor is anyone else.

And we do not live in a simulation.

Like I said I normally have a "suspension of disbelief" like when people just assume a video game or movie is a kind of reality.

You said:

we don’t even know that consciousness can be simulated in the sense that people actually experience consciousness in the simulation

If the Roy game is ever possible then you seem to be saying that people in it might not be conscious since maybe consciousness can't be simulated.

It comes down to whether simulations like the Roy game are possible - even thousands of years in the future... I asked a question about that in post #655

Are you saying that every character in the Roy game must be conscious because you find the concept of p-zombies repulsive?

No. I don’t think any characters in any games are conscious.

I am saying WE are not p-zombies and WE are not in a game or a simulation,

 

[excreationist]

No. I don’t think any characters in any games are conscious.

Including the Roy game?

I am saying WE are not p-zombies and WE are not in a game or a simulation,

Do you think simulations like the Roy game would be possible in the future? If you were in the Roy game it would seem similar to your own life including not thinking that it was a simulation while playing it.