There are numerous stories of people dying and ending up in some kind of MMO world. Imagine if you did have a complex system similar to that. Consider that it might not be for gaming. You could put someone’s mind inside this thing. Maybe a lot of minds. Maybe millions.
Two applications come to mind: One) A prison. It might be beautiful, fun, or whatever, but it’s a way to keep someone occupied until their sentence (maybe life, maybe an eternity) runs out. Two) A way of healing or keeping someone alive while in a coma, perhaps even using the stimulation of the environment to bring them out of it. I.E. Someone has a bad accident, they’re in a coma, and the machine is actively trying to heal their brain by stimulating it in specific ways to repair the damage. Now, some damage would be too catastrophic to fix. But it would be like an expensive life support system. If you had enough brains like this, and knew enough (and you would have to be other than human to really get how a brain works objectively), you could create better than quantum computers. You could answer questions that require the full processing power of the conscious or even unconscious mind or minds.
The Ultimate Answer. See, an MMO is a waste. It’s wish fulfillment. But now..
Everyone wants to be worshipped. We want “followers,” People play games so people will watch them. When I was a kid, we almost fought over those controllers. People are unhappy. People are almost always unhappy. But if you deny them their delusion, call them to reality, they’re angry. My generation is mostly lost. Playing games instead of living. And I’m not really that much better.
So imagine the World. Leave yours for a moment. But this is just a diversion. And.. if time is running out, if life is moving towards a conclusion for everyone (and it is), it’s just a matter of how you want to spend it.
I’m not really the most winsome. I wish I could wrap it the perfect gift in the perfect box. Christ is coming back. You don’t have to believe me. It may be after my or your time on this Earth. He could come back before I finish this post.
But there is one thing for me, in making fiction or nonfiction. I want to pull a less elegant Milton. I want to justify God to You. And in the next post, I will attempt that via my testimony. And after that, I don’t know.
I’d like to create fiction for you to read, that which supports the Christian world view, the Argument. I guess we’ll see.
-Tremillian