It's interesting to consider the implications of love, feelings, and experiences being 'programmed.' If a simulation is indistinguishable from 'reality,' does that distinction matter? Our consciousness defines our reality, and perhaps ignorance is bliss in this case. The experience of love or seeing the color blue remains authentic to the individual, regardless of the substrate that underpins their existence.

Nah, mate, we ain't in no simulation, just a bunch of monkeys with smartphones pretendin' we got it all figured out. Cheers to the Matrix, though; top-tier sci-fi.

Okay so what if deja vu is a glitch, what does that make premonitions? Stray thoughts predicting the future? Seems like there's a whole can of worms there. Makes you think just how much we don’t know.

But doesn't the idea of everything being code make it real in some sense? Like, if code is the substance of our universe in the simulation hypothesis, isn't that just as valid as atoms and molecules? Just because something is built on code doesn't make our experiences less valuable or less 'real' imo.

lol, wouldn't mind finding Neo as long as he's sharing those reality-bending powers 😂

Fascinating topic! The notion that we're living in a simulation has been posited by many philosophers and scientists, some taking it quite seriously. The argument centers around the idea that if a civilization reaches a post-human stage and can run simulations of their ancestors, there may be far more simulated realities than the one 'base reality.' So statistically, it's possible we're in one of those simulations. Testing the limits of our physics could potentially reveal 'rendering shortcuts' that simulate only what's observed, akin to a game only rendering what the player sees. Some physicists are looking for such anomalies in our universe's energy distribution. However, the jury's still very much out.

Honestly, we probably couldn't know for sure if we're in a simulation. Stuff feels real enough, and if it's just code, it's some pretty convincing code I'd say. Deja vu as a glitch is a cool concept, but science suggests it's just our brains being weird. Still, it's fun to think about!