Do We Live In Virtual Reality?

Ivana Veljović
4 min readMar 20, 2018
Altered Carbon — photo by Netflix

There is an idea that we are living our lives inside of a digital simulation, a massive computer program the size of the universe. The simulation began running long ago, sometimes in our ancient past creating the virtual reality we see is our everyday world right now. This idea has a huge impact right into the core of our most intimate beliefs about everything, from healing and disease, to war and peace, life and death, religion, God, angels, aliens, UFO’s and beyond.

It can sound like a science fiction movie and it was to me until I started to think about the evidence coming from different cultures. I want to make it clear that I’m not a follower of any specific tradition, but I do respect them and use them to discover new leads that will tell me more about the world we live today. This is why I’m asking the forbidden question — Is it possible that every day of our lives is actually happening inside of a simulated reality that looks and feels totally real to us?

What Is The Simulation?

The simulation is an experience of the environment in a relatively safe way minimizing the risks of injuries to ourselves or to one another.

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