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Unfalsifiable, okay. But why nonsense? (I haven't read it, yet, genuinely interested in your non-hand-waving thoughts).
by halfcat 12y ago
Unfalsifiable, okay. But why nonsense? (I haven't read it, yet, genuinely interested in your non-hand-waving thoughts).
- eli_gottlieb 12y ago"Nonsense" in that there's literally no way to ever tell the difference between a "simulation" being run on a computer in some exterior universe and a very real universe whose laws of physics are fundamentally discrete. "Real" is what you can causally interact with, which means that until that exterior universe decides to deliberately talk to us, they are not actually real with respect to us.
- halfcat 12y agoMaybe "pointless" is more correct then. "Nonsense" suggests you have a strong opinion on whether we live in a simulation, which as you said, we can't know.