Are we real ?

Last night I was sitting up idle after having a small session with Visual Studio 2008, I had this whole thought process of imaging things that finally led me to think.. are we real or not? or perhaps we are just a computer simulation by some advanced civilization similar to The Sims game we play on PC where we act as God and control the whole civilization inside our desktop machines just for fun and time pass, even if leave the game running on auto-pilot it takes care of our own self-created world and keeps is growing.

What if we wake up one day and realize it was all a dream, or maybe we were just imagining things which we are living in, it would be a really complex situation and I guess it’s hard to imagine, but still with the technology growing so fast and cloning is getting more and more acceptable it’s possible by 20-30 yrs in future we might be making computers which are self-aware and conscious and probably living life of their own and thinking as if they are real too and maybe centuries after their existence it’s likely that we are extinct by then such as dinosaurs are now, our creation of computer civilization might get into the same dilemma that make them think are they real or not!

The idea itself is bizarre… but movies such as The Matrix, are good for entertainment but if that is really what it is, then we are just another organic micro-chip operated by some infinite wireless links which are connected to super computers of maybe 10,000,000 gigaflops processors running parallel and controlling or every execution in the environment we are living today and doing our actions.

And what about religion, faith, belief? Is it just another slice of the cake or it’s like the boundary line defined by the creator or a computer programmer so if we try to bypass that line the other computer-simulations like our self will try to harm/kill us as they have done for the past centuries.

Then what is Brain? maybe like a distributed network offloading tasks in chunks to other machines for processing.. or its just our wireless link with the super-creator to give and receive instructions from.

No, I am not challenging anyone here to prove to me the existence of God or Creator, so please do not flame me for discussing this or atleast pushing a bit to think about that are we real or not, either way the life will go on, no matter what.

I love the quote by René Descartes “I think, therefore I am”

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