Guilt happens when you have been told your whole life that when you die you will go to heaven but you question if there is a heaven and instead you find yourself trying to explain to friends there is a simulation that makes you immortal across infinite universes but only if you choose to join the matrix.
Then you remember that someone dear to you strengthens your moral fiber by having taught you over and over that we have a mind, body, and soul. That consciousness happens when you use your mind to explore different ideas other than your traditional beliefs. That your body is a vessel you need to care for as a temple that houses your heart and your guts, which could also be declared your soul.
Words have double meaning but you can’t go around swapping the word heaven for matrix to understand either because nobody has ever been to heaven and lived to tell about it while nobody has lived long enough to see the matrix. Unless this reality we are living is all simulation and heaven is on Earth, then we already know what is the outcome. If the world ever becomes a simulation, it was always a simulation. If Earth is our heaven, we have been in heaven all along.
It may be a matter of infinity rather than immortality. Like becoming one with everything, an infinite number of atoms, versus zero transference or eternal darkness. That is to say everything is part of the natural world and nothing that man has made from nature can be artificial. If what we come from was indeed artificial then what we will become is artificial but only after going through the natural process first.
Some people think that artificial intelligence is going to surpass our own capabilities to learn and to understand the universe. Information could be the fuel for a simulated reality but information is not just the laws of math, physics, and other sciences. Information is poetry that is to come, art in progress, and music as communication. All of these expressions have a human touch. To replicate creativity is to reproduce something unique, to replicate laws of nature is to rediscover something back into existence. Technology bridges the gap between science and creativity.
I am not one to suggest that some sort of matrix doesn’t exist out there somewhere in the universe at some point in time because I believe when it comes to something as infinite as the universe anything is possible, real or imagined. When I think of our reality being a simulation I start to consider immortality as being the goal rather than just survival. Probably because I think of the matrix as being inorganic and impervious to decay. I can’t imagine being reassembled as ones and zeros in some sort of binary digital field overseen by a grand programmer who improves our place in the matrix with each update ultimately striving to make us perfect and bug free. I instead trust in an organic system that randomly breaks down a conglomerate of atoms and disseminates them across all elements as the worms pass dirt from one end to the other and the soul passes through the appropriate constellation on its way to the center of the universe to be judged for its performance on Earth, and accordingly given its next assignment.
Guilt happens when you have been told your whole life what happens to you when you die, who you’ll meet and how you will be forgiven but then you go around accepting all sorts of other possibilities too and you find yourself trying to explain the inexplicable, so you choose to let go and let god……
Francis Erich McElroy 