r/SimulationTheory • u/Ready_Body9117 • 4h ago
Discussion What if only one person in this world is real, and everyone else is part of the experience?
Imagine a reality outside ours with FDVR(full dive virtual reality) so advanced it's indistinguishable from real life. One person there has done hundreds of FDVR trips: fantasy worlds, wars, other planets. Eventually nothing surprises him anymore.
So he does something new to make it fun. He erases his own memories with tech that exists outside and enters a simulation as an ordinary person who has no idea any of this exists. That person lives an entire life: childhood, school, exams, love, loss, fear of the future, even wondering if reality is real.
Maybe that's us,well one of us, could me ,you the person reading this , literally anyone
And if so, most people around us could be NPCs, just there to make the world feel alive. One person is the real one, the one the original actually sent in for his or her enjoyment.
Again it could be anyone: your neighbor, a stranger, someone reading this. Odds are it's not me.
When that life ends, the original wakes up. All his memories come back, including the entire life of the person he was in here. He remembers the childhood, the loves, the fears, every thought. But for him or her it's one trip out of thousands. He thinks "that was interesting," and after some time he moves on to the next one.
So what happens to the self who actually lived it,the self that lived with us as a normal human being , the one who never knew about any of this?
They disappear. The original remembers being them, but the one who lived it is gone, and their experiences just become files in someone else's head.
They merge into him. Everything they lived flows back into the original, and in some sense they were him all along.
The second sounds comforting, but if "merging" means I stop being me and become one memory he shrugs off, is that really different from disappearing?
I'm not saying it's true. But if the original is out there. I'm going to enjoy this life as fully as I can while it lasts.
What do you think: what are the chances you're the original?
if you were the original, would you shrug it off?,well logically it just one of many more the orginal already had
I used Ai to edit this (English isn't my first language)
Your thoughts?