This Simulation Is So Real
Updated: Jan 12, 2025
Written by Mark Branson, Leadership Theorist
Mark Branson has combined 20 years of experience, 5 State Titles, and one World Record into the first advancement in leadership theory in 50 years. Branson's first book, The Illusion of Competence, introduced perception-based leadership. Branson's second book, Unified Leadership Theory (2025), advances the theory further.
I read an article that said we can never prove we live in a simulation, so why bother trying to prove it? I believe we live in a simulation, and evidence abounds, so what’s the harm in contemplating it?
The multiverse is the simulation’s primary competition. If you believe in quantum mechanics, you must believe in the multiverse. It's a package deal.
The multiverse exists because, in the quantum realm, a particle exists in all states until measured, at which point the particle takes the measured state.
What happened to those other states? They must be somewhere. They must be in the multiverse.
Though mind-bending, scientists cannot ignore the implications of quantum mechanics, one of which is the multiverse, to account for every possible outcome.
A simulation does not require every possible outcome because there is no free will. You are on a guided path. The wrong paths lead to dead ends.
For example, think of the first true love of your life, the one you thought would last forever. The one that broke your heart.
Now you have a calling, one you found after the relationship. That relationship had to end. Would you choose your calling over the pain? I don't think you would, calling be damned. If you wouldn’t choose the pain now, you never had free will in the first place.
Quantum mechanics says that every possible outcome to your life exists within the multiverse, but you will never have access to these other universes.
A simulation does not require a multiverse. A simulation requires a file, a file with your name on it.
What am I working on now?
I’m looking for that file.
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Mark Branson, Leadership Theorist
Mark Branson set the world's record for the arcade game Asteroids in 1981, playing for 55 hours in a quarter. Branson then applied his concepts of greatness to winning 5 New Mexico state racquetball titles over a 15-year career. Branson then created a leadership theory from scratch, combining 30 years of leadership experience and his habit of winning into the first advancement in leadership thought since the turn of the century.
