Sheridan offers a sharp critique of simulation theory's fatalism, yet his own "Matrix" framework relies on a common misinterpretation of quantum mechanics to justify mysticism. He effectively replaces one unprovable dogma with another while masquerading as a scientific realist.
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Hello everybody. I've been having problems with my phone today. Hopefully this video it works out okay. People have asked me what my definition of the the matrix is. What my definition I don't have I don't have my personal definition of the matrix is. I go with the standard Copenhagen model that this is a an illusion created by our central nervous system ultimately by our consciousness acting through it. And there's there's numerous uh it the Copenhagen experiment, the double flit experiment, the observer effect.
These things have been where fall into the field of quantum physics have been tested so many times. In fact, there's probably no more scientific test that's been tested and retested and given the same results as the observer effect simply because it it's too it was too staggering for theoretical physicists and materialist scientists to come to accept the fact that when you're looking at a wave or a particle that changes or not looking at it, it changes state that the observer is actually creating reality. This is conclusively proven.
It's probably one of the few scientific, you know, theorems, facts. If there's such thing as a scientific fact, the observer effect is it. It's literally been so many times tested and so many times proven. Now, why I don't that's the main reason I don't buy the simulation theory. There's two reasons also. The second one is that there's a cultural or sort of theological aspect to people who embrace the simulation theory. There's a kind of a doomer element that ultimately comes from Abrahamic religions be itnosticism.
I know that's cross you know that's not necessarily totally always Abrahamic and traditionally the Abrahamic religions.
Uh basically simulation theory is the belief it's really basically a validation of things like Genesis that some exterior powerful force created this reality and we are we are prisoners of it. We have no control over it. It totally determines us. It's everything we see, experience and feel is purely a piece of theater, a stage or a projection that's given to us. The Gnostic one tends to be well a little bit more fatalistic, but when you factor things like original sin into the Abrahamic version of it, it's kind of similar. That were trapped in this this false reality that were kept in here by basically reincarnation, which is a trap. And the only way to escape it is some kind of death, some kind of death of the self.
And the thing is to try and escape this reincarnation cycle. Again, they're both incredibly fatalistic and they treat us as we're prisoners. There's no liberation in it. You might as well just give up. If you're if we're living in a simulation, what we're we're being told is we're like the fish in your fish tank. And there's literally nothing. We have no participative thing to do in this except wait to die and hopefully escape reincarnation or go to be with Rabbi Yeshua in heaven on the clouds.
It gives nothing to the individual. This is why I find it remarkable here David Ike after years of you know starting out promoting Michael Tolbert's the holographic universe is now giving this this the simulation theory. He's gone from telling people that they were infinitely they have the infinite power to create possibilities within this reality to the fact that they're screwed and they have to avoid the the archons at debt. Now I I just you know we all change in our our our change in our beliefs as new information come in. But that's that to me is a hell of a a nose dive from being told that you're a manifest destiny to you're basically you're a prisoner in a meat a meat box and there's nothing you can do about it.
Well, there is when you die. So I I I still would be well not still I know it's a fact because it's been scientifically tested over and over again that we live in a matrix that we live in that this same thing it's it's it's a projection. And it's a reality.
It's not it's not, you know, solid. It's a kind of a an a an agreed upon hallucination that all our central nervous systems generate.
And if you've done things like magic, this is why this is why the the simulation theory appeals to Abrahamics is because of the prohibitions on magic in the in their Torah, the part of the first five books of the Bible and the prohibition on doing anything to interfere with reality because the the tetetrogram tetrogrammaton hyperdemon of the Middle East will will punish you. uh you see a much more healthy aspect in things like Hinduism where the belief that this is a pro everything is is is a projection of God looking back on itself that we're creating a kind of a a kind of a consolidated god through all our in individual nervous systems functioning now I have done magic ritual all my life well since I was about 12 11 12 I have on many occasions hacked the matrix And it's it works. It's because if if we live a simulation, that would not be possible. If the simulation theory was correct, then things such as performing magic wouldn't be possible. It just wouldn't be possible with the matrix because your own specific, you know, you you construct this architectural model of a desire or an intention in the subconscious architecture of your mind and then you bring it into manifestation into the real world by whatever means you use ceremonial magic, ritual magic, chaos magic, or sometimes just trauma like the mother who can lift a two-tone SUV off her child after an accident that that could override the this matrix uh this this Maya and there's numerous proof of that. Guess what proof there is of the simulation theory? Zero. None. None at all. It's just embraced because a fringe scientific movement has put it out there and it appeals to the Abrahamic mind that you you're somehow being punished by God. You've either you're either you're trapped in the archon's prison if you have the gnostic mindset or you've been cast out of paradise if you have the Abrahamic mindset. So fundamentally at the root level, the reason why the simulation theory flies is purely because of religious superstition. The reason why the matrix stays theory stays solid is because of you can test it personally with things like magic and all kinds of other things that we would call like incredible synchronicities and so on. And the Copenhagen experiment, the observer effect, the double slit experiment is the most is the most rigorously tested scientific experiment in history. What more proof do you need?
We don't live in a simulation. We live in a matrix.
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