Nowadays, as the science fiction industry grows the products of it affect our lives. One of the biggest questions it added to our lives is if we are real or not. This also comes to our minds from games and animated movies as well. Even though those things are made by humans and are not real they look quite real and convincing That is why some people believe that we live in a nonreal world or a similation. On the other hand, some believe we live in the real world and they both got their proof.
First of all, it is really hard to tell we live in an objective world and we can prove it. As touching, seeing or hearing something is created just by the stimulant of the brain you may feel like touching something but you may not touch it or vice versa. Hearing and seeing works the same way as well. Also even now we have the technology to stimulate the brain and create that effect. Also in simulations those senses are created as well.
Moreover, emotions and judgements we make in our brains may not be real things as well because even we can create very similar effects on robots and AI. Also, those emotions are made by seeing hearing touching and tasting something but as I mentioned earlier may not be real.
On the other hand, sometimes there are things that we do even though we don’t need to like helping somebody with something and the feeling of relaxation whenever we are close to our mums. Even though those things as well can be explained through science. The deep connection between the baby and its mother in my opinion can’t be replicated. Also seeing other animals have emotions just like us is very spectacular and looks real as they don’t have consciousness.
To conclude, I can say that living in a simulation is an interesting idea which has its proofs and can’t be disproved via scientific research but also seeing all the incredible and unbelievable things in our world and feeling love makes it very hard to say it is not real.