Simulated Reality- Are you living inside a Computer Game? Chances are quite fair, According to Science

Imagine you were a fish, born inside an ocean. Your aquatic species happens to be the most advanced species that has ever existed in the ocean. You have the knowledge of all different kinds of fishes and living beings that live inside the ocean. For you, this ocean is what you call “The Universe”. There is perhaps nothing that exists beyond this reality, that you believe is true.

One fine day, you get trapped inside a net (fish trap) and a few seconds later, you find yourself surrounded by giant floating bodies (Boats/Ships) and some monsters (Human beings in this case). You have come to realize that there is another world beyond your own world, the one you used to call “The Universe”. You had no idea about this world before. You also realize that you are not able to breathe in this environment but you were lucky enough to escape through the net and get back inside the ocean.

You now have an entirely different perspective of what you thought a “reality” is. You no longer believe that the universe is just an ocean but for now, you believe that there is another world out there, which is different from what you have seen, different and scary too. Chances are that you are not willing to go in that world again though. But as a fish, you still have no idea about cosmos, space, stars, solar system, galaxies etc. And most probably you won’t know about them either. We as human beings are thankful enough to know about all those things related to the cosmos that animals inside oceans don’t know about.

But what makes us think that we know everything? What if this is true of us humans too, similar to those fishes?

There is a good chance that our version of the universe is far from the truth. And there is no guarantee that we would ever be able to sense the “reality” either.

Take snakes, for example, they don’t have the ability to hear, so even if snakes had brain power just like us humans. They won’t ever be able to know what it feels like to hear a “sound”, because they can’t sense sound waves.

What if there is something out there that is completely out of our reach? That’s quite an interesting question, don’t you think?

Maybe there are some superior beings out there, who know about us, each and every detail. But we don’t know about them, just like a fish who has lived his/her life deep inside an ocean, has no clue about human beings. But we know about that fish’s species and a lot more than that fish knows about himself/herself. And these superior beings may don’t care about us humans in the same way as well.

Quite scary isn’t it? But what if the actual “reality” is far scarier/surprising than this too?

What if we don’t actually exist? 

Chances are quite fair that the world we live in is just a mere Stimulation made up by some Superior beings/Advanced Civilization. This may seem to be unrealistic at first glance but according to the leading scientists, this might actually be true.

“THERE IS ONLY ONE CHANCE IS A BILLION THAT OUR REALITY IS NOT A SIMULATION “- Elon Musk 

Elon Musk is one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the entire human history and the greatest of the 21st century. When you hear such a thing from someone like Elon Musk, serious doubts regarding the nature of our reality begin to arise. Not just him, but legends like Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking have a similar opinion.

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