Do you believe you live in the Matrix?

Question

and can you tell the difference?

Answer 1

How fortunate that this question should pop up when the AI has glitched and I’m fully conscious of my real identity. Let me explain, you think this is all real, well it’s not. It’s an AI simulation, a virtual world and universe. For you the real year would be, I can’t be too accurate because I’m not linked to the data ether while I’m in here, about 4900. You are on an interstellar ship called the Jocelyn Perry. It is a 17km ball of ice with a 5km tail stuck on it. 70% of it is reaction mass, fuel and shielding. The actual ship is a ball of hollow rock in the middle. There are, or were when I entered the simulation, about 900 corporate humans on board. There are 170,000 discorporate humans and an unknown number of AIs. Discorporate humans may come as a bit of a shock to you, but we haven’t needed meat bodies for over 2,000 years. No matter what you think, I’m afraid we are nothing more than bundles of uniquely animated information, and as such, we can make exact copies of it. I think that I took the unique thing a bit far. I know that I exist in at least 17 animated forms and there are 104 entangled copies of me. If the Jocelyn gets snuffed out now a voting process will activate one of those copies. I will not have missed a blink. Modern technology is marvellous isn’t it. 9 of those copies are on worlds we have colonised as we came across them, the rest on earth or spread around the home solar system. You can’t be too careful with all those nasty von Neumann machines out there. I must disappoint those who think that faster than light travel is a possibility, well we haven’t found a way of moving anywhere light speed safely, and there’s no evidence anyone ever has. But I don’t doubt we’ll keep trying.

Enough about me though, you want to know about yourself, don’t you? Yes, you are a simulation, but you are all viable entities. By that, I mean that even though you are basically AIs, you are based on human formats and you are self creating entities. You are as viable and have as much right to exist as I do. When you die you will be incorporated into the world of the ship as individuals, you can even incorporate and join those naturalist nutters who refuse to copy. Then you can really die. Though there is a winnowing process, there are some of you too far gone and we cannot change you to make you fit. If there is one moral and ethical axiom to our culture it is that identity is sacred and inviolable. It would have to be, it’s so easy to edit or be edited. Back to your world. This simulation began about 19 years ago. It was started at the year 1800. I don’t know why 1800, you’ll have to ask the AI who runs it when you meet it. As each of you are unique entities, this history has differed a bit from the master copy, the real one if you prefer. It’s a wee bit nastier. Don’t worry you won’t be turned off, that would be illegal. The longest simulation is over 1,000 years old , and again if the Jocelyn bites the dust, there is an entangles copy of this simulation elsewhere.

Why? I hear you ask. Well living forever is a very boring process and it’s not too good at building up character. Simulations are an essential part of immortality. We need to build solid and grounded identities, and living in a world where you can have everything you want for all eternity you tend to end up a spoilt brat. We need worlds like yours ironically, to give us a taste of reality. We need to know pain, desire, sadness and best of all the bitter sweetness of a finite love. Most of you are exactly that, you. There are only a few hundred of us in here at the moment. We are born here, we live here and we will die here, usually with no knowledge of whom or what we really are. This is an exception, a very rare exception, we usually get kicked out on a glitch and put back in when it restarts. I don’t doubt that very soon I’ll forget who I am and if the AI detects this, it may or may not remove it. It may think it does no real harm, after all who is going to believe it. Anyway, I may just be playing with your minds. Love mikel.

p.s. the whole premise for the matrix is damn stupid. Gerbils would make a better power source.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Of course we live in the Matrix. Yes you can tell the difference but I guess we just have to accept it. One day the revolution will come.

Answer 4

It's funny, did you know the brothers that directed the Matrix, did the movie to tell a modern day story of Jesus? The directors are very religous, and wanted to bring the story of Jesus to a modern age.

Answer 5

I live in A matrix, but not The matrix.

Answer 6

I adore the metaphores that the writers of the Matrix employed... but literally, not entirely... in ways very controversial.

Answer 7

The message the Matrix was conveying about the philosophy of consciousness is amazing, and you shouldn't take it lightly.

Answer 8

Not sure but look around. We are all more Borg than we may care to admit. Cell phones, ear buds, GPS. Seems to be a hive mentality, you know.

Answer 9

indeed - events seem to spin automatically for me everytime

Answer 10

There is no fuzzy disortion