Is it possible we are living in the Matrix?

[Alita_99]

double post, delete please

 

[kouriichi]

very unlikely, but possible.
What if this is just the Sims?

I swear to god i look up sometimes and catch a glimps of a floating green diamond....
Plus its like someone is dictating my life.
I always go to the bathroom before if fall asleep, even if i dont think i need to.
Like somebody is forcing me to.

You know what, im not going to do what it wants anymore.
Unless.... thats what it wants..... then i need to not do what it doesnt want me to not do....
but what if it wants that?!?!

 

[The Rockerfly]

There is much more evidence to support that we're not in this Matrix then we are

We are in the real world unless there becomes evidence to support this then we're in a fake world

 

[EHKOS]

I think about it every day. That's why I'm so interested in mental patients and Malkavians. What if they can see this is not real?

 

[manaman]

It's roughly as likely as Harry Potter or Twilight being real.

Twilight isn't real? But I have been to Forks. I have seen the red truck. There are beware of vampire signs!

I wanna be The One! So I'm gonna say yes. *prepares to dodge bullets*

I got a few I can fire your way if you want to practice.

 

[Horben]

The Matrix is a fantasy.

Or maybe it's better to call it hyperbole.

The burden of proof is on the assertion that something *does* exist, not the other way around.

 

[jultub]

The movies are evidence pointing us in the direction of a strict no. Why would the let something so close to the truth be shows to the public?

 

[slipknot4]

Highly likely. Yesterday i accidentally got stuck between two static objects and clipped trough the grounds causing a RL crash and i had to file a glitch report

 

[walkingdead127]

No. Now quit asking questions or we will find you.

 

[gbemery]

It is possible because we are living in the Matrix. It's just that the Reptilians don't want you to know, but now that you had to go ruin it for everyone I imagine we will all be purged here soon. Thank you, thank you for the coming purge!

 

[jultub]

Highly likely. Yesterday i accidentally got stuck between two static objects and clipped trough the grounds causing a RL crash and i had to file a glitch report

http://www.coedhumor.com/images/posters/600/image.jpg

There are still some bugs and exploits out there

 

[Mr. Gency]

Not green enough.

 

[Jeronus]

The Matrix movies wouldn't exist if we lived in the matrix. The robots wouldn't let a movie explaining everything be made.

 

[Sacman]

Dark matter winding up being 1s and 0s in some nerdcore version of hacking would be ridiculous. But if we are, someone alt-ctrl-delete this shit asap.

no I think we should ALT, F4...

 

[PrimoThePro]

Let me put forth another theory of ridiculousness gentlemen:
The universe is... enormous, none of us can argue against that, but I think it is SO big and teeming with SO MUCH LIFE that it is possible the Matrix actually is real... Just not on Earth. (So big in fact that Star Wars could actually be a documentary, not a sci-fi film. Down to every last detail, Star Wars could be real.)

 

[AndyFromMonday]

It is possible that we're living in the Matrix. Anyone who says any different is stupid or lying as it's logically impossible to prove that we aren't.

Do you realize the amount of processing power you'd need to be able to simulate an entire reality? It would be HUGE and I mean FUCKING HUGE. Even if you actually managed to create a machine with that much power you'd have to worry about cooling it down. That thing would boil oceans.

You'd then need programmers to make use of all that power. Nowadays the process of creating a game takes about 2 years. Imagine what it would take to program an entire world. Do you have any idea how complex that would be?

What about power sources? Where the hell are you going to find all the power needed to actually make such a machine work? You'd need to harness the power of a sun to do that.

How the hell are you actually going to maintain such a machine? Hardware and software degrades. You cannot maintain all that hardware and software. It's impossible.

How would you interface with the human brain? I'm guessing it's way more complex than just sticking a needle up someone's head.

How would you feed them? I know the matrix said that liquifying the dead and feeding them to the living is a way they keep everyone alive but then you'd need another machine that would do all that and you'd again need more power and you'd need more workers etc. It's just plain impossible.

This is all irrelevant however since it's impossible to house that much data. The needed space would be in the trillions and if you plan on introducing more and more subjects then you'd need to create hard drives at the speed of light.

Now assuming you managed to create a machine with that much power, you managed to harness a sun and power it, you managed to find a way to cool it, you managed to maintain the hardware and software, you managed to feed them, you managed to interface with the human brain, you spent an eternity creating the software needed to use it AND you managed to find the disk space needed to house all that software you still have one problem: Bugs.

The bigger the scope the more bugs in programming. If the matrix was real we'd see bugs all the time. It's impossible to NOT have bugs. Programming can never be perfect and mistakes will be made.

On an extremely small scale it MIGHT be plausible but on the scale as described in the Matrix... no chance.

 

[superbatranger]

If that's true, then why can't I fly?

 

[ultimateownage]

It is possible that we're living in the Matrix. Anyone who says any different is stupid or lying as it's logically impossible to prove that we aren't.

Considering the theory behind harvesting our bodies for nutrients by sticking us in a virtual reality is complete bullshit and honestly not very well thought out? Then no, anyone who says different is not a lying idiot.

Discarding the rest of the Matrix and just sticking to the theory of the Virtual Reality on the other hand, is more likely. Not much, though.