Reality is software generated, and each of us is a networked computer. Can you prove otherwise?

Question

Not that I endorse this idea, but it is good food for thought.
There really is no way to disprove this. All of our perceptions are based on electrical impulses. We think we are looking at the world, but we are prisoners inside of our heads, and all of our reality is based on our senses, all electrical. Our eyes are antenna picking up electromagnetic waves, which are projected upside down on a grid of receptors. These receptors turn this info into electrical impulses and carry it to our brains, and our brains decipher the signals and try to make something meaningful out of it. We already know that sight and sound can be electrically reproduced and stored in our reality, so who can say that the sights and sounds that we take as real are not synchronized software? Yes, sounds like the Matrix, but much of the original Matrix movie was based on old philosophy.
Google "brain in a vat" and prepare to be enlightened.

Answer 1

Assuming for the moment that you and I are in agreement about what, exactly, reality is, that leaves only the question of whether any particular apparent manifestion of reality is really there. So let's take this from the top.

There is an objective agreement about much of reality. It is attributed certain qualities. You can personally experience those apparent qualities. That leaves only two options, really:

1) Your experiences and those are others are real.
2) Your experiences are false, and are somehow being manipulated or induced by some outside agency.

Given that we have no substantial evidence of some external experience manipulating conspiracy, and that a conspiratorial model is more complex that a non-conspiratorial one (the conspiracy requires not only all the complexities of our experiential world but also an extra, unpercieved world too), then Occam's razor would suggest that the simpler model is true.

Thus the world as we percieve it exists because it requires a lot less explanation that it NOT existing. Which is not iron-clad proof, but it is a KIND of proof.

Answer 2

reality is a fig newton and we are all little fig seeds. Can you prove otherwise?

A zen master heard some novice monks discussing the sutras. They were discussing the nature of reality and that all reality was a matter of perception. The Master asked one novice, "You there! Is that boulder inside or outside your head?"

"According to Buddha," Said the novice, "Everything is in the mind's eye; therefore, the boulder is inside my brain."

"I feel sorry for you," said the Master, " for having such a heavy head."

Answer 3

There is n way of proving otherwise as we don't know what reality is to compare it with. But in the end we might take reality for what we see infront of us as there's no way of finding out whether's it really or not!

Answer 4

you think therfore you are. if you are a computer and your reality is generated,what of a fish, are you its reality, in its complexity the matrix did not show you the reality from a fly or a fish perspective, we know they see us and thier surroundings, becaue they react to them. are they and we projected software created reality, what you are stating is disprovable, the theory of evolution, darwin and einstien and my granny, she quoted this saying all the time, little fleas have lesser fleas upon their backs to bite em, lesser fleas have smaller fleas, and so to invinitum. regards LF

Answer 5

to stretch your point further
we might say to touch the spirit is to have a software
which could access infinite amount of data,,,,
maybe science and religion meet in the end

Answer 6

technically you may be right but the point is we are not machines
we have souls we can love and hate even if computers can express these emotions,they will never feel it like us
but you know what.....
you are really intelligent