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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on January 21, 2019, 07:07:15 PM

Title: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 21, 2019, 07:07:15 PM

This seems to fit in the interstices between science and philosophy but it's a reasonable summary.


https://bigthink.com/arguments-live-matrix--arguments-against?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

Title: Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
Post by: Steve H on January 22, 2019, 02:06:23 PM

Being completely unfalsifiable, it is a completely useless theory, I'd've thought, but I bet we're seeing the birth of the next loony internet conspiracy theory.

Title: Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
Post by: BeRational on January 22, 2019, 04:18:23 PM

We are in a simulation, and it began last Thursday tea time.

Title: Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
Post by: Robbie on January 22, 2019, 05:30:15 PM

Oh blast! I blinked and missed it. Like the red moon.

Title: Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
Post by: Dicky Underpants on January 22, 2019, 05:32:21 PM

Quote from: BeRational on January 22, 2019, 04:18:23 PM

We are in a simulation, and it began last Thursday tea time.

Yup, my friend Martin saw the same shape pass his window twice in exactly the same manner last Sunday. This is, I understand, the classic way of identifying that we're in the Matrix.

Title: Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
Post by: Owlswing on January 22, 2019, 08:49:08 PM

I always thought the song title was "Is you is or is you ain't . . . "?