Is 'reality' just a video game?
Govind Davis
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Shortly after my 15-year-old son completed Elden Ring, we ended up in an interesting conversation about life meaning.
He's been gaming since I started him on Battlefield 4 at 5 years old and chews up open world adventures. Say what you want about my values, I'm proud that he's developed an amazing skill and social group on the Xbox.
Back to the conversation ...
"Daddy, do you think life is basically a video game?", he asked.
To which I replied, "Yep, that's pretty much how it is. Except you don't get any respawns, there's no clear guide for how the game works and levelling up takes a lot of time and effort."
I doubt he really paid much attention, and it got me thinking. Maybe I'm actually right about this.
The Yoga Sutras and other ancient wisdom provide some pretty tantalizing clues in fact.
Consider that the Yoga Sutras describe our Mind as separate from our physical bodies and clarify that our Mind interfaces with what we call the 'real word' through our physical organs (feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling, projecting).
It's easy to imagine that we could develop technology that can replicate 'real life' for each of our human sensory interfaces. Because our Mind can only process experience and not the world directly, how can we know what's 'real' or illusion?
What's more fascinating to me is how fundamental nature of Objects in Yoga boils down to a Binary System or maybe we should describe it as a Quantum Binary system defined by 0, 1 and their permutations.