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My Notebook #philosophy #fun #my take 6 Simulations 2021-10-24 · 4 min read What is a simulation, and how do they serve us in our day to day lives? For reference, I'll be talking about simulations here in a less technical sense, so sadly no, I am not going to be talking about how we all live in the Matrix and need to take red pills. Though I think talking about simulations in an abstract construct sense, we can look into our lives in an interesting way. Have you ever done something, and ever wondered why you're actually doing something, even though you might not like it? Like studying or working, we do things that may not directly make us happy, but we justify it through the idea that it might make life more pleasurable in the "long run", or after a period of time. Usually this end goal is happiness or something of the sort, where we make small sacrifices to guarantee that goal. Now going back to simulations and how they play a part in this scheme. All of these constructs, whether it b

Simulations My Notebook # philosophy # fun # my take 7 Simulations 2021-10-24 · 4 min read What is a simulation, and how do they serve us in our day to day lives? For reference, I'll be talking about simulations here in a less technical sense, so sadly no, I am not going to be talking about how we all live in the Matrix and need to take red pills. Though I think talking about simulations in an abstract construct sense, we can look into our lives in an interesting way. Have you ever done something, and ever wondered why you're actually doing something, even though you might not like it? Like st

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