Life... Is it real?

This is a silly question. But if we think over it, we may fine some relevance in this silly question. We work so hard in our lives to achieve our goals. We all have certain goals and we want to fulfill them. But what if the life is not real?

 What is real? To know what is real we should know  that what is reality? Our sense organs help us in collecting stimulus from external environment. These stimuli travel through the nerve fibers in form of electric signals to reach the brain where the stimuli are processed. In this way reality is the input we receive through our sense organs in form of electric signals processed by our brain.

So can we create reality? Theoretically if we think, may be yes, if we are able to produce the same type of stimuli in the nerve fibers we can create reality.

Now think this, what if the life is not real? What if we are controlled by some one who is playing with us by providing the false stimulus of all that we are doing in a day. Sounds strange?

In ancient Hindu scripture the worldly life is described as 'maya' which means illusion. According to it the world is an illusion and a person should work towards attaining moksha.


In 1999 blockbuster movie 'The Matrix' the same concept was used. In this movie the machines had overpowered humans as species and were cultivating humans for fulfilling their energy needs as a human body produces energy in form of heat and electricity. In this movie the machines had kept the minds of the humans in control by a reality simulator known as the Matrix. This simulator program provided fake impulses to the humans to make them feel that they are living a normal life in the 21st century. This was a very interesting concept and the movie became a cult hit.

Now let's think about ourselves. We too can be a part of a simulation. The life we are living can be a simulation. Every input to the body can be a fake electric impulse causing an illusion of reality. The main centre controlling these impulses or running this simulation can be a supercomputer which we call God.

The concept is interesting. Isn't it?

We can try and derive an inference from this..... may be the world is unreal and we are just a bunch of bodies getting processed nerve signals.

But I think a better inference will be that watching sci-fi movies at young age can be injurious to the brain.

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