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> This is pseudoscience/creationism marketed to scientists. It's not science at all, pseudo- or otherwise. It's philosophy. And I see no link to creationism. I
by ksenzee 11y ago
> This is pseudoscience/creationism marketed to scientists.
It's not science at all, pseudo- or otherwise. It's philosophy. And I see no link to creationism. If we're in a simulation, it's not turtles all the way down. Somebody's running the simulation. The same ontological questions we grapple with now simply apply to that person instead of to us.
- serge2k 11y ago> If we're in a simulation, it's not turtles all the way down. Somebody's running the simulation and they are simulated, and so are they, and ..., until you reach turtles. Super smart turtles. If I'm going to believe something silly it may as well involve super smart turtles.
- Mtinie 11y ago...with even smarter (and larger) turtles running simulations involving the turtles that we think are running ours. Are they really turtles, though? Or are we subtley being tricked to think of them as turtles when in reality they are dolphins?
- serge2k 11y agoSimulated dolphins. By turtles.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoHeh - no reason for that to be true. The folks running the simulation could be very unlike us - maybe N-dimensional beings, or they exist across multiple universes, or heck maybe in a 2-dimension world. I can simulate more dimensions on my computer than I exist in! Why couldn't they? Anyway their ontological questions might not be anything like ours. Perhaps they ARE god, and don't need to wonder about that.
- Alan01252 11y agoAnd perhaps they're using simulations to better understand how they came to be...
- vinceguidry 11y ago> Perhaps they ARE god, and don't need to wonder about that. If they were, how would they know?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoCan God make a rock so big, that even God can't move it?
- theoh 11y agoThe creationism link, I suspect, is that some people associate unanswerable questions like "why is there something rather than nothing" with the preliminaries of some arguments for the existence of a creator.