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checking out the comments section. Or you’re already writing a comment yourself! But what if
we told you that… none of it is real?? This video, your comments, your computer, you… it’s all an
elaborate illusion created on a higher plane! This is Unveiled, and today we’re answering
the extraordinary question; what if we’re living in a Type Five simulation?
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On extended versions of the Kardashev Scale, a Type Five civilization is one which has mastered
the full energy potential of the multiverse. Not just a galaxy, or even the universe… the
multiverse. Multiple universes rest in the palm of its god-like hand, and the all supreme Type
Five being can bend and shape them to its will. With total control over many worlds, multiple
dimensions and myriad possibilities… the list of things it could do with its power is endless.
But probably the one that most interests us, lowly Earthlings, is the potential it would
have to build and run countless simulations. By now, our regular viewers will have done plenty
of thinking on the simulation hypothesis. The idea that this world, this life,
this universe… isn’t real, and is merely a well-rendered, convincing construction, presided
over by some higher power. In this video, we’re imagining that that higher power is a Kardashev
Type Five entity. So, what would that mean? First and foremost, in terms of our everyday
lives, it wouldn’t mean much at all.. until such time as either the simulation is revealed to us,
or our Type Five overlord changes the rules. The classic comeback to anyone claiming that
everything we know is simulated is, “so what?”. What difference does it really make to us, so long
as we continue to feel as though everything we believe to be real actually is real? We still feel
as though we have friends and family, need food and shelter, like to play sports and watch YouTube
videos, so isn’t that all that really matters? Again, yes, unless there ever comes a moment when
the true nature of reality is shown to us. This moment is usually referred to in movies
as a glitch in the matrix. It’s when something happens that should be physically impossible…
maybe buildings evaporate, gravity fails, or oceans instantly turn to ice cream. From that
point forward, humankind could descend into chaos, with people unable to ever again trust their own
thoughts. For some, the revelation still wouldn’t drastically alter their day-to-day mindset…
but for others, the knowledge that nothing is real would be way too much to take in.
But why would (or could) all of this happen under the watch of a Type Five civilization
specifically? A key facet of the proposed fifth level of the Kardashev Scale is that they exist
outside of our universe. Outside of time, even. They can see and understand all of the seemingly
infinite details that make up our reality. A universe to them is a little like a city to us.
It’s the sum of a great number of parts, yes, but it can also be changed at any time. Think of how
we’ve treated cities in the past - we’ve made them bigger, improved their technology and destroyed
them, in getting to this point. Some cities of history are now no more than ruins, while some of
the cities of the future we’ve yet to even begin to build. For a Type Five power the same would
be true of whole universes. So, the first thing to hope is that if all of this is a Type Five
simulation, then we best not be heading towards destruction ourselves, anytime soon. Not that
there would be much that we could do about it. In this world, destruction of universes roughly
equates to deletion of universes, and that’s because simulated realities are usually imagined
as though they’re ultra-efficient, digital (or something better than digital) codes. Arguably
the first stage at which reality sims even become possible for a species, is when it masters
stellar megastructures - particularly Matrioshka Brains. M-Brains are giant, star-sized computers,
offering a star system’s worth of computational power. According to the Kardashev Scale,
they should also be available to lower levels, including Type Three and Four. But it’s only at
Type Five when a civilization gains knowledge of the multiverse… so it’s only then that they
could apply M-Brain-type technology to the creation of whole, simulated universes.
So, let’s put ourselves in their shoes for a moment. One day, roughly 13.8 billion years
ago - according to how humans understand time, at least - we created the universe. Using our hugely
advanced, Type Five, technological know-how, we brought into being all of the planets,
stars and galaxies. Maybe we planned for life to appear on Earth, maybe it just happened that way…
ultimately, it doesn’t really matter. Universal consciousness is another key attribute to a Type
Five civilization, and so this universe will have naturally been a joint, universal effort.
And perhaps we were pleased with our creation. Proud of it. Maybe for a period of time
afterwards, it stood as the greatest universe ever to be simulated. But… times change.
Between the dawn of the universe and this moment right now, a lot has happened. But we
humans can only ever understand that to mean that a lot has happened inside the universe.
From our perspective, stars have formed and died, black holes have moved across space,
and Earth has tried its best to connect with other planets. From a Type Five perspective, though,
all of that may have gone unnoticed. It may be totally unimportant. In the meantime, any number
of other universes may have been created. And many may be better or more noteworthy than this one is.
Usually, when we consider simulation theory, we assume that whoever created us
is still intent on watching us… but, with a Type Five being, that probably isn’t the case. We’d
be just one data point to them, within an endless stream of data. And very likely long forgotten.
But, say that actually the opposite has happened, and against all the odds we’re still the biggest,
best and most extensive universe that our hypothetically Type Five civilization has
ever managed to simulate. Would this be cause for celebration, or just more concern? Well, in
this heightened version of reality, our Type Five controllers double up as gods in our own minds.
They’re non-human, higher powers that we’re never likely to physically meet during our lifetimes.
Instead, we might hope (or have Faith) that we will meet them in the afterlife. But, until then,
we can only vaguely claim that Type Five moves in mysterious ways… whenever something in this
life doesn’t match with expectation. In a previous video, we asked what the
world would be like if humanity ever reached Type Five… considering that, at the moment,
we rank at less than Type One on the Kardashev Scale. It’s difficult, then, for us to imagine
having this much power, or for us to imagine living in a civilization so effective and
efficient as to be able to create universes in the first place. But, really, we do have lower-level
examples of how we’d expect a Type Five headed hierarchy to work. Online, open world gaming,
including specifically world-building games, are so often cross-referenced with the simulation
hypothesis, because they’re the simplest model we have for how it could look.
If this is all a simulation then somewhere, on another level of reality, there exists the
Type Five player… and they exert some degree of control. One version of this mysterious figure
has them simply keying in the conditions for the Big Bang to happen, and then sitting back to watch
what unfolds. Another is that they’re more closely involved, and are guiding the actions of each and
every living thing, each and every day. For so long as this particular, hypothetical reality
structure remains hidden from us - and, of course, if it does exist then it is hidden
from us - we’ll never know which one is closer to the truth. All that we do know is that the
universe does exist right here, right now. Either because it’s seen as a success by its creators,
or just because no one’s switched it off yet. So, what do you think? If we are living in a
Type Five simulation, then is this universe still retaining the attention of that Type Five mind? Or
has it long been cast off and forgotten about? And which is the better fate, from our perspective?
Is it preferable to be the pride and joy of a cosmic superpower, or a one-time object of
interest relegated to the back of the cupboard? Or… to the back of whatever they have instead
of cupboards! Because that’s what would happen if we were living in a Type Five simulation.
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