MotW: The Truman Show

This is one of the Jim Carrey comedy movies that actually hold up extremely well. It's still to this day a lot of fun and iconic. 4/5.

This movie is so good, it has always been in my top 10 of all time, at some point it was number one.

I do like the Kate Winslet movie, it is deep and all, but this one easily blows it out of the water for me.

This movie just at face value without taking into account meaning is at least 9.1, but with meaning included it is a true gem.

Heck Centipede is saying they even named a clinical condition after it. It is that powerful.

In terms of meaning this movie shares the exact same philosophy than The Matrix, both movies use Biblical references, and both movies came around the same time because this was becoming a hot topic.

In fact, only a few years later, in 2003 I believe, we proved at least mathematically speaking that the philosophy of this movie is accurate.

First, we know that the idea that we never reach the ability to create a simulated reality that feels indistinguishable from real life is very unlikely considering how things are moving forward technologically with our computing advancements.

It is true you can also say that even if we reach that level of maturity technologically speaking, there is a chance that we won't want to create any ancestry simulation for different reasons, but if we have the technology you know that's utter bullshit, we won't make one, we would make at least a million, most likely more.

We are curious and we would always want to know what are the possible outcomes on how our Universe came to be, so we would run a lot of trials to see all the possible outcomes in which civilization could have evolved.

So the third option is that we reach this technological maturity, maybe in a hundred years, maybe in a thousand, who knows, it doesn't matter, it could be a lot less or more, but that's where we are heading.

All we know is that our AI advancements are always more insane, so running this kind of stuff in the future would be child's play.

So under that scenario, which is the most likely by far out of those three possibilities, it is virtually impossible that we are not in a simulation already.

There are trillions of galaxies, and each has billions of suns, also with planets, and to say none of those civilizations could reach that level is inconceivable.

But even if it was just us, just our own civilization alone, without anyone else, the numbers are still just as powerful.

To put it simply, at the end of time multiple realities exist, all the ones created (simulations), and the original reality from which all the other simulations originated.

And to say we are the ones living in the original one is egotistical nonsense, the odds of that are basically none existent.

Even if we would only run a million ancestry simulations, our odds are still a million to one.

It will always feel like we are the original ones because we are inside, specially if we haven't reached technological maturity yet, but we know that's how every simulation would feel from the inside.

Using a dome to illustrate this is allegorically accurate, in a poetic sense, that's exactly it.

So the fact that we are already living in a simulation is extremely likely true, at least mathematically speaking, and the numbers are very clear.

This explains why our quantum computers already detect multiple realities existing at the same time, it also explains little things like the quantum eraser experiment, where we can already change the past at least at particle level.

It's pretty straight forward stuff, in the big scope of things the probability that we are not in a simulation already is completely ridiculous, absolutely absurd.

Plus the whole theory is pretty much the same thing all ancestral religions have been saying all along, not just the Gnostics, basically all religions, that we are creation, and that we could become creators.

In this sense the title of the movie is genius because it shows us this reality that is true for human kind.

Andrew Niccol is by far my favorite writer in Hollywood because of the meaning he gives to movies. They apply directly to actual real life.

In Time is another one I recommend from him because it deals with time as a commodity which just like simulation theory, it is also ancient Greece philosophy, and a very accurate commentary of the reality we live in with our limited lifespans.

It is also funny because if you look at those movies just at face value, they can sound very unrealistic, but taking a closer look they describe perfectly what's actually real, and that irony is hilarious and genius comedy indeed.

I could suggest that the propositions of these movies is worth a thousand books, they are that good, and The Truman Show is certainly a gold piece on its own.