Sex and the Single Simulationist

One of the questions I get asked most often from young simulationists’s that come to my various seminars or read my books has to do with the purpose of sex and procreation within the simulation. Many are understandably confused when they first become awoken and realize that everything they thought was fact or were taught was true about the universe and their place in it was in error. In many this triggers an extended period of soul searching, deep thought and other contemplative exercises that can result in changes in their personalities and life goals. For a majority the information is taken in stride and these self critical examinations are for the good, while for others they can spiral into self and simulation destructive activities. In either case there often comes a time when questions about relationships with the opposite sex, romantic love, sexual relations, procreation and family become more and more important. At these times deep thoughts about the purpose of sex, love, and procreation are common.

It is a very difficult question to approach for the newly awoke for it touches on issues of a deeply personal nature and thus is difficult to discuss with others, even other newly awoke peers. Moreover, it is a philosophically thorny area with tendrils that spiral into many corners of the simulationist worldview. I usually consul a take it slow approach and suggest that a good first reaction is the simplest reaction, and that is to make no change at all in one’s current moral and relational value system with respect to these issues. For instance if the newly awoke is/was a devout Christian with a deeply conservative view of sexual relations I would suggest they retain that value system and continue making choices, acting and reacting in all ways as they would have if they had never learned of the reality of the simulation and ourselves as simulated persons within it. I say the same to a liberal polyamorous person as I do to that conservative Christian. Often times that advice is met with confused stares and stammered objections but I have found that in most cases that confusion quickly abates and the objections are overcome, not by some argument of mine, but by the persons themselves. In my experience the awoke who have strong value systems in place prior to learning the truth are almost always fairly easily able to reconstruct that same system in the simulation with fairly simple and self satisfactory philosophical examination and critical reflection. It really is not important how they do it, or even why, only that they do. It is the ones who cannot do that, or the ones who have no such system of values when they become awoken, for whom the deepest problems typically arise. It is this class of awoken I will discuss in the next section………