fascinating, thanks! maybe this is a silly question, but if the simulation hypothesis were true, would all bets be off?
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i.e. if what we conceive of as "nature" is simulated, nature beyond the simulation may have vastly different properties, no?
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Yes, it would seem so! Tautologically in fact, by the form of the supposition…
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interesting. is there a way to formulate the supposition non-tautologically? how (un)likely do you think sim hypothesis is?
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I haven’t read much about sim, but it seems equivalent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon ? 400 years of non-progress on that one.
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Replying to @Meaningness @_jordan_bates
Or Zhuangzi’s butterfly, or the brain in the vat.
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Replying to @Meaningness @_jordan_bates
Generally, when it comes to Philosophical Big Problems, my attitude is that they are known to be dead ends.
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Replying to @Meaningness @_jordan_bates
And, they mostly have no consequence. Do we really have free will? Are we in a simulation? What difference does it make?
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There are lots of hard philosophy-like problems that have real consequences and that philosophers ignore. More interesting!
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well said. mostly i was trying to confirm that Meaningness takes for granted that our reality is the "real" reality
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only one I’m aware of :-)
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