What if you're living in a simulation... but it's only you and your best friends/family. Everyone else is an NPC.
Discussionim obviously one of the NPC because I have no friends and very little family
You’ve probably chosen single player this time round
Fuck. I might have accidently pressed hardcore mode maximum difficulty. I'd say fml but it aleeady has been... thoroughly.
You picked male living in California. If you want hardcore then pick a female in Somali as your start next time.
I think that's what people call "main character syndrome".
That means that you’re the npc to everyone else but that would be impossible. Unless everyone is an npc with a god complex
A few metaphysical theories kinda... say this exact thing.
You could just be programmed to feel fully conscious and self aware while actually being a background npc.
If you were programmed to keep it to yourself, then you'd have a whole world of "NPCs", but only from the perspective of those that wouldn't have mattered to them anyway.
Which. Uh. Kinda... that would be fine?
It's totally fine. It's just an amusing thought that the idea of "consciousness is an illusion" is only true for most of us.
I sit here and reflect upon what you've said and new vistas illuminate... kidding.
It's creepy how easy it is to drop into that though... (X files Sound)
Which of my selves isn't conscious?! Which of you bastards is presumably responsible for all of this?
No actual NPC is contemplating NPC theory
I've been thinking about something similar to this for years. Imagine everyone has their own simulation in which they are the only real person and every other person is a computer model of themselves. Each of them is trapped in their own simulation with the only difference being they are the only true self with the others being models of themselves.
The real question then is, when did we get here? Is it like that black mirror episode with extreme time dilation and also like Inception? Am I really on my couch at home and these last 5 or so years have really only been a minute? Fun to think about, but I don't really think so or see any way to prove it.
I think this gives other supposed consciousnesses too much credit, vast majority are not questioning their reality at all ever, it would serve zero purpose for them to have their own sim.
You clearly haven't met my family.
That’s funny. And sad. Sending love smackson!
Honestly I was just hitting that conversational softball there, for laffs...
In honesty, I did pretty effing well in the "family" lottery.
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That would mean you are an NPC trying to "move up" in my world
Why not your family and friends, or even yourself?
Nah what if it’s only you and they’re just projections from your mind.
Then what if you’re a projection from someone else’s mind, in a different, nested simulation.
Your friends and family are NPC's too
Yeah maybe its just you. Your family and friends as NPC’s some dead some alive but thats here. There they are all there but its a camping trip and you are trying out the latest vr tech. Its so real you can’t even tell the difference between life or game. It goes in dream time so an hour is a lifetime. Your friends are roasting marshmallows and watching highlights, talking shit, making fun of you as you do stupid shit, waiting to see if you will do what everyone else does or if you will see the edge peel back and not be able to unsee it like the corner of a decal that will never lay flat again and choose to step across the veil and take off the vr headset by realizing you aren’t wearing any not by dying and getting kicked out. Unlocking the cheat codes and god mode (i mean why wouldn’t we make that) you would lean back and start laughing with your friends about how fucking real that seemed and how you can’t even remember it, asking who is going next. Or maybe everyone is a NPC, at to each other just such advanced NPC’s that everybody has their own choose their own adventure story. Everybody could also be like an NFT on a blockchain of time
All inhabitants of a simulation, must be simulated.
It's just me. I paid a quarter for a 65 year simulation. It's about over.
Certainly not, everyone is the main character in their own world but that doesn’t mean that everyone else you see around you doesn’t have a mother and father that birthed them along with their own dreams, ambitions, emotions, desires and things to offer, and if you don’t feel that anyone cares about you get out and find someone because everyone has shit to love about them and love to give
It might feel like you are alone because all the real people are so spread out and live in their own little reality bubbles.
"We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe."
Manly P. Hall
Time to get over the size and complexity of the universe and stop denying other people their soul.
It's all or nothing
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Ah yes, I am in the main character club and you are a NPC within my DnD campaign!
this sounds genuinely ridiculous, and is a bad take.
Hero of our own story always
What if my butthole were a tuba.
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