Ask HN:Is our universe a computer simulation inside another universe?

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by nRike • 16 years ago

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Today i've had a discussion with my uncle about entrepreneurship and human behavior, reaching to the subject of the Soul. I believe our soul is connected with the everything(or God if you want to say), and these question came to my head. Do you believe in God? if true, why do you believe in God?

tokenadult2• 16 years ago

I used to, because I was brought up that way, and lived out my belief in a very concrete way by working for a time as a cross-cultural missionary. But I don't believe in God anymore, having at length reexamined the rationales I thought I had sufficiently examined while an undergraduate for either believing in God or not. (There is, of course, also the issue of WHAT to believe about God, as not all self-described believers in God believe in the same thing.) I have still have immense respect for persons who act out their beliefs at personal cost, but now I advise everyone in general to test their beliefs on all subjects against reality. Many of the online sources I read regularly to find interesting, thought-provoking articles for HN come from sites that have the point of view that people ought to spend more effort and care on examining their beliefs for truthfulness.

nRike4• 16 years ago

I dont believe in what modern religion says, im saying "God" as all the energy that comes from i dont know where, energy we do not know who created it and that goes all over sign of life as a breath, a apple from a tree, a though from our brains, a whale in the sea...

tokenadult2• 16 years ago

As should be apparent, I was responding to the original title of the thread. But the reply would still be, what is the evidence for thinking this?

dstein• 16 years ago

A more interesting way to ask this question to the HN crowd might be: "Is our universe a computer simulation inside another universe?"

nRike4• 16 years ago

Its seems you understand what im trying to say, thank you very much for this advice. I'll change it right now

wturner2• 16 years ago

Diplomatic business savvy response:

"I believe there is something more to life than what we perceive in our day-day experience."

*Then get quiet,

and leave the rest to questioners imagination.

End.

nRike4• 16 years ago

In buddhism and ancient oriental religions people believe in what we called soul, which is basically the real esence of a human, a finding of ourselves in a real manner, not what we think, nor what we look. Talking with my uncle he said that 2 children of the same social context(same parents, maybe even twins, with the same time of life) are totally different each other. He said was genetically stuff, and i argued the reason was the soul they have. An alcoholic father is a good experience for their life for the more conscious, and a tragedy for the less conscious.

wturner2• 16 years ago

You filled in the blank perfectly, and regardless of whether one is a monotheist, polytheist, agnostic, atheist or the more ambiguous eastern philosophies (taoism, etc) the only thing that needs concern entrepreneurs socially (imho) are the constants that retain social order. That means learning to phrase and word things in a manner that retain those "constants" that keep people feeling "together" as opposed to "apart".

Focus on that and let everyone else "fill in the blanks" for themselves.

Astro9k• 16 years ago

Isn't it such that we can never know for sure one way or another? Maybe a better question to ask is: how would you conduct your life differently if you did or did not believe in "God."

nRike4• 16 years ago

Well, im experimenting with the smartest crowd ive met in my life, and i want to bear out my theory about entrepreneurs are more aware of their existence in this world compared with "normal people"

s4nd• 16 years ago

I don´t think an entrepreneur is more aware of its existence that an ordinary person, obviously indicates a greater capacity to meet needs or to innovate, all this due to living situations that led him to develop certain skills

noonespecial• 16 years ago

Ah my very favorite philosophical rabbit hole. I'm afraid I can't begin to answer this outside of a cozy pub and without a constant stream well crafted beer.

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