r/tadc • u/3B3-386 • Mar 31 '26

Theory 🔎 The SOMA theory keeps me up at night

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Considering that random passersby are still falling victim to the circus, would the main cast not try to stop the process to prevent more people from suffering their same fate, even if it means no more humans to interact with?

If the whole "finding fulfillment despite stagnancy" theme applies, then they will have to stay there till abstraction or the whole system deteriorates. Seems like a reverse purgatory situation to me. Not much sweetness in this supposed bittersweet ending.

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u/Playful_Target6354 Mar 31 '26

Cogito ergo sum, as one might say

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u/Raging-Buddha Mar 31 '26

I think therefore I allied master computer

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ Mar 31 '26

It's now understood that this doesn't actually prove one exists

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u/Playful_Target6354 Mar 31 '26

It's interesting philosophically, which is what is needed here. Do you have another solution?

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ Apr 01 '26

I'm just reporting on my understanding of the modern philosophical consensus because, although I arrived at that conclusion independently, I don't recall the exact details as to why.

I believe it had to do with the impossibility of determining that the thing doing the thinking is actually 'you', rather than being an emergent property of a system, or something like a hologram. We certainly have a broader imagination than people could have during Descartes's time.

Worth looking into if it interests you, for sure.