Yes, it would seem so! Tautologically in fact, by the form of the supposition…
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Replying to @Meaningness
interesting. is there a way to formulate the supposition non-tautologically? how (un)likely do you think sim hypothesis is?
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Replying to @_jordan_bates
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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Replying to @Meaningness @_jordan_bates
There are lots of hard philosophy-like problems that have real consequences and that philosophers ignore. More interesting!
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Replying to @Meaningness
well said. mostly i was trying to confirm that Meaningness takes for granted that our reality is the "real" reality
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Replying to @_jordan_bates @Meaningness
and indeed, Descartes' demon, solipsism, brain in vat, Chuang Tzu's butterfly, etc raise the same problem
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Replying to @_jordan_bates @Meaningness
seems important to me to at least acknowledge that Meaningness and science in general assume that these hypotheses are false
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Yes… maybe it’s worth saying that somewhere…mostly I assume readers have a scienceish worldview, but can’t always count on it
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Replying to @Meaningness
i think many people with scienceish worldviews completely overlook/dismiss these hypotheses and their implications actually
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Replying to @_jordan_bates @Meaningness
i mentioned the simulation hypothesis first because it's most sophisticated of all such problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis …pic.twitter.com/KARzLkqm6U
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