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The simulation theory simply postpones the hard problem of consciousness. It's like a magician trick, pulling wool over the eyes, moving your attention away fr
by AltruisticGapHN 4y ago
The simulation theory simply postpones the hard problem of consciousness. It's like a magician trick, pulling wool over the eyes, moving your attention away from the real problem long enough, so that you stop thinking about it.
- quickthrower2 4y agoEven without consciousness, the existence of the universe faces the same causality issues.
- docandrew 4y agoAll the talk of simulations, multiverses, etc is IMO expending a lot of effort to avoid facing the possibility of a Creator - the “uncaused cause” or something existing outside of time and space.
- programmer_dude 4y agoThe presence of a creator does not change anything. Who created the creator?
- docandrew 4y agoThat’s the point - something completely beyond our notions of causality or the arrow of time has to be at the foundation of it.
- NayamAmarshe 4y agoThe creator remains without a creation. The notion that most schools of thought have is, the creator is unborn and born at the same time and has always existed. Creator does not have a point of creation, not even death because those rules only apply to the materialistic universe.
- programmer_dude 4y agoThat's quite a cop out. Excuse me if I don't take your word for it.
- EventH- 4y agoIt isn't a cop out because the creator in the conclusion of this type of argument (e.g. Aquinas' third way) is not just another contingent being like other things, but rather a being whose existence is necessary in itself.
- NayamAmarshe 4y ago> Aquinas' third way Thank you! This was very interesting to read about. Learned something new today :D
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- munchbunny 4y agoHow so? By “hard problem” do you mean defining what consciousness is?
- AltruisticGapHN 4y ago"the hard problem" (of consicousness) is a well known term in philosophy, science, metaphysics, just look it up.
- User23 4y agoThe simulation theory is literally a species of creationism, which I find quite amusing.