Invisible Chair and AI agents in Minecraft

Is Reality Just a Coded System?

You sit on a chair. It feels solid. But physics says atoms are 99.9999999% empty space. You’re not actually touching the chair, you’re hovering on an invisible field with forces of opposing electrons.

Solidity is just an illusion created by fundamental forces.

Now, imagine you are a Minecraft AI agent. You are inside the game of Minecraft, an enclosed sandbox environment, everything around you is coded including yourself. You see blocks as “solid,” but they’re just pixels following game rules.

If you are a super smart AI agent, you will notice the pattern across the game. Patterns in religions, in ideas, in success, in nature around you, even randomness. There have been some people who observed such patterns in life:

• Buddha (India, ~500 BCE) taught that the self is an illusion. There is no fixed “I,” just experiences shaped by perception.

• Laozi (China, ~500 BCE) saw reality as a constantly shifting flow (Dao).

• Plato (Greece, ~400 BCE) suggested that the world we see is just a shadow of a deeper, more real world of “ideas.”

• Upanishads (India, ~800 BCE) described reality as “Maya” a grand illusion shaped by consciousness.

If we are an AI agent inside this unreal game, how to see things beyond illusion?

Play with, change or re-write your “Code”.

• Change your beliefs then your perception of reality shifts.

• Expand your knowledge then you see more of the hidden structure.

• Push the limits to see beyond

• Do something different to break your initial code which was written to make you who you are now.