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You have basically said it may be unprovable. First, that may be true, but it also may not be true. Secondly even if it were true, why would that change anyon
by WhitneyLand 9y ago
You have basically said it may be unprovable.
First, that may be true, but it also may not be true.
Secondly even if it were true, why would that change anyone’s interest or curiosity about it being a possibility?
- danbruc 9y agoIt's nothing special about the simulation idea, there are many similar things. Solipsism, only your mind is real and the outside world may or does not exist. Last Thursdayism, the universe came into existence last Thursday in the exact state of last Thursday, before that there was nothing or something very different. They all share roughly the same idea, there is some reality but by some perfect arrangement of smoke and mirrors you are by definition unable to ever learn something about that reality. There is certainly some value in discussing those ideas on a meta level, finding common characteristics, figuring out limits, but beyond this the individual ideas are, at least in my opinion, mostly a waste of time. What is the point of analyzing something that by definition leaves you stuck? And as far as I can tell philosophy has long ago mostly accepted this and made it something like an axiom that there is an reality and we can learn about it and doesn't concern itself much anymore with ideas that would, if true, block any possible progress.