Janeoply wrote:
Greetings,

I obviously understand that Simulation Theory is widely rejected as being possible by nearly all philosophers, and further that the average citizen has not so much as even heard of it. In addition I am not promoting the theory though my imagination deems it as possible. However, if the theory could make the leap in the human imagination from impossible to probable, I ask what ethical implications would result within the individual. How would our moral attitudes change if the average person believed they existed in a four dimensional hologram created by others perhaps from the future.

Surely, the more basic minded within our civilization would mentally collapse, rejected all positive moral judgments, finding comfort in drugs, crime, and other negative societal influences. The wiser and more imaginative among us would perhaps find delight in knowing that their are higher intelligences than ourselves, resulting in an increase in spirituality (not necessarily religion), as well as a moral renaissance within the human race. Still others would no doubt degrade to a state of utter apathy, now knowing their entire existence was spent within an alien created false reality.

Whatever the potential attitudes of the public would comprise, surely no one can doubt that every individual on this beautiful sphere would have a personal transformation in relation to their philosophic actions in general, and their ethical ones specifically.