Where would your mind go if uploaded into a digital environment?
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I'm not sure how to explain this in a coherent and short manner, so please bear with me! - I'm just a curious kid exploring the world of ideas. <br><br>So whenever I imagine the day I'll inevitably die, I get some anxiety, and wish I could somehow upload my mind into a digital environment or some kind of thing (I don't really understand how it would work, so please ignore my ignorance here), so that I could keep on living in some form. <br><br>The question is then- what would be the nature of the world your mind would exist in? <br><br>This made me think of something that I'd like to call the "Human Simulator Hypothesis" - basically, imagine you were a character in a video game. Right now in the real world, you have to go outside to work, or go to the store to buy food, do chores, etc, all of these are things that keep you from exploring the world and enjoying life (even if you find enjoyment in work). But in a simulated world, these unnecessary things could just be gone, as a means to keep humans happy and engaged in exploring their simulated world, in this case Earth. Or, the simulator could give humans the ability to simulate their own worlds and live out their own fantasies, like a VR environment simulation.<br><br>You could create entire worlds, star systems, planets, solar systems, or even entire universes that you could freely explore, and live out your fantasies. You could simulate what it would be like to be an astronaut traveling to another galaxy. Or what it would be like to live in a utopian society. Or even what it would be like to be an alien living on a distant planet. <br><br>I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I think the Simulator Hypothesis has a lot of interesting implications, and I'm excited to see where this thought experiment might take me (and anyone reading this).
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