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Hiraeth | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 https://media1.tenor.com/m/EpWCFSWsHzwAAAAd/pattern-mesmerizing.gif
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Sasha | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Is reality even real 😵‍💫
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Hiraeth | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes.  "We're living in a simulation" is hedonistic cope.
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Sasha | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 lol but how could the simulation be real if reality isn’t real 😵‍💫 

It’s not just a hedonistic cope fyi there’s some really cool statistics and quantum physics behind these theories, cool thought experiments, but terrible, toxic and destructive ideologies when adopted as a fully realized mental perspective
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Hiraeth | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Quantum mechanics allows for almost limitless *hypotheses* but the number of solved problems and the scientific theories associated with them is very small in the field.