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Proof we are Living in a Simulation
1. For an understanding to be valid, there must not be - any - arguments that can be made without a reasonable solution.
(E.g. Socrates is a man), no clear conflicting logic can be generated regarding this statement of material fact.
2. If arguments can be presented, but not properly resolved, due to flaws in the logic of an object and/or system, then our understanding of the system - or the system itself is invalid.
(E.g. 2 + 2 = 4 in every circumstance. -> If 2 + 2 = 12 on just only Friday, then our conceptual understanding of math would be invalid, OR math itself would be flawed by not having consistency and predictability)
3. A paradox is equivalent to an argument that cannot be properly resolved and therefore (2) -> our understanding of the system - or the system itself is invalid.
(E.g. Epicurean paradox exists around Theology, which humans agree we have no conclusive understanding of)
-> Paradoxes exist in the most fundamental areas of space and time (E.g. Zeno's Paradox) (2) -> our understanding of the system - or the system itself is invalid.
4. Humans understand space / time, we are able to produce empirical experiments to validate our theories.
(E.g. We are able to observe the expansion of the universe and rotation of the Earth around the Sun)
-> Therefore the system itself must be invalid.
5. Original objects/systems are definitively valid because they are the original, but copies can be invalid.
(E.g. The Mona Lisa cannot be flawed, as any element is by itself the definition of the Mona Lisa), but copies can, which are flaws from their reproduction.) (Important Note: The element need not be immediately recognizable, it may require something as minute as Radiocarbon dating to distinguish the variance)
-> Paradoxes expose the flaws within copies of an original object/system, which however minute, expose a flaw and (4) therefore the system itself must be invalid.
Paradoxes therefore may only exist in a simulation.
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Note: One may argue the validity of (4), in which case it is also plausible our understanding of the system itself is invalid, which it historically has been but believed at the time to be accurate. However, this still concludes we lack a comprehensive understanding of space/time, which may also be a result of its corrupted state, reverting to (5)
- cheese_van 5y agoI posit a world simulation that is fully faithful to science. It follows then that the scientists of the first simulation are able to create similar simulations - and so on, until we have simulations "all the way down". I refuse to accept that the processing burden of infinite regressions of simulations can be met by the original simulation.
- leephillips 5y agoZeno’s paradox is resolved using the concept of convergence of an infinite series, a concept unknown to the ancient Greeks. It is not a paradox, in other words.
- digitcatphd 5y agoThis is merely a mathematical representation of the paradox.
- leephillips 5y agoI don’t know what you mean.
- digitcatphd 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Z9UnWOJNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Z9UnWOJNY
- Comevius 5y agoParadoxes are just inconsistencies you must resolve to make your model of reality useful. Stating that reality is a simulation to resolve the inconsistencies is not useful.
- digitcatphd 5y ago(1) One needs to make it useful because the model is sufficiently invalid to not be practical. (2) There is a distinct difference between (a) understanding of practicality and (b) understanding of the fundamental object/system being practical, though I agree that there is no practicality in the pursuit of proving this per-se.
- Juliate 5y agoA paradox may also only be that you're not looking at the "thing" from the correct perspective to understand its true nature and why it looks like a paradox from an other, partial perspective. Eg. allegory of the cave, or more crude cylinder shadow projection on a plane. The paradox is intimately tied to your understanding of the reality you're looking at.
- truro 5y agoPlease revise using symbolic logic, as your argument expressions are not clear. Such an argument is best analyzed using symbolic logic.