The Life Letters

Subject: Who Are You
Written By A

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hola : )

[e]
This may seem awfully dumb, but I didn't quite get
exactly what you are asking here.
-Do you mean, "What if we're all a computer
simulation"?

mmmm, i didn't think of it like that, but sure, you're perspective would be nice : )

[e]
-Or do you mean "I'm a simulation and you're not"?

hmmm, who is i and who is you? [literally, the way you structured the sentence leaves me foggy]
and likewise again, feel free to provide your perspective again : )

[e]
-Or do you mean "somebody else who's a member of the
group is controlling e somehow"?
-Or what?

yeh, that's kinda what i meant, it was a moment of perception from another place, i wondered if you were a composite of several people's time and energy, if that makes any sense...

[e]
...More to the point; how would we [a] discover and
[b] prove any of that? : )

yes, well i know this is not presently[while i write this] possible, but i am the kind of person who loves a good challenge especially when it has so many exciting adventurous aspects and possibilities....and it has occurred to me that there are ways around...thus 'proof' must exist somewhere ; )
i'm sorry...were you asking me how?...surely as you are 'yourself' you must have some idea : )

[e]
It's a bit like when
someone says 'what if God or some computer programmer
or aliens are in control of everything you say'? How
the hell, as an individual, do you prove that's not
the case?

i suppose you follow the white rabbit : )...find out who you are : )

[e]
From my own point of view all that matters is that I'm
an intelligent mind who wants to interact.

yes, i know...i want to interact too : )...oh yeah, is it helpful that i'm intelligent? ; )

[e]
If I
discover one day that I'm _really_ a genetically
engineered gorilla wired up for internet access I
wouldn't really mind. I'd wonder why people saw fit
not to tell me for so long but apart from that, who
cares? : )

hmm, well i guess in some respects, no one cares...and in others...if you were a gorilla and someone was deceitful about it then that would mean...they care.
on one level, sometimes i think we are all computers who 'simulated' humans, etc., in order to create ourselves...
sometimes i think we are already the beings we 'dream' of being, and that we are hiding inside cages made of electro magnetic strings/wires.
and then i wonder why we are hiding, or cloaking ourselves...one hypothesis i have is that it is the ultimate form of energy conservation...basically existing in an embryonic state[energy wise], inside a mental simulation...in a universe heading towards entropy...it's a great way to keep from...dying.
did you follow that?

[e]
I guess I am likely to take on the characteristics
of everyone I interact with, but as long as I only
interact with cool people, what's the problem there?

no problem there: )
funny thing, did you know that you bunch are the only 'english' folks i know, and when i was on the phone with j the other day, she said where are you getting that accent from...she said i've been talking like i transplanted to england, i still don't hear it...but anyways, pretty funny how people i have never 'heard' are influencing my language and use of words : )

[e]
But I don't see how I'd have time to be all these
other people and me as well...? I mean, think "The
Matrix"...these people all have jobs, they have social
security numbers, they go to work and they pay their
taxes. Some of them even help their landlady carry out
her garbage. I could calculate where most of them are
most of the time. Meanwhile I muck about online having
a good time and learning things. Notice the time and
motion discrepancy here? : )

i have been noticing lots of time and motion discrepancies for a long time...this rebuttal, is not theoretically sound ; )
you were saying about time and space weren't you?....you have been saying a lot of things for that matter...
either way, i am definitively aware that i have been interacting with you, wherever in time and space you and/or i might be during interacting : )

[e]
...Maybe I'm just not understanding you properly
though, so apologies if I've wandered off
inappropriately here : )

: )you! have 'i' wandered off here? hmmm, if so...i must have been led...; )

grins and giggles
a