Simulation Theory Documentary

[Neo-Scholastic]

Just something interesting that I stumbled across...

[ScienceAf]

Just something interesting that I stumbled across...

Albeit interesting it is only a hypothesis that has not been tested.

[Arkilogue]

Isn't this just kicking the bucket one notch back up the infinite regression fallacy? Besides being absolutely soul destroying and mind paralyzing of course.

[ignoramus]

These days, my attitude is just that if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, let's stop wondering whether it could be something else.

There are countless possibilities.... Where do we start?

Eg: how can we ever know what's outside the sandbox if this is by design?
Also, how might this change anything? Or do we want or need it to?

Maybe god is a super technician who goes around creating universes to study them but keeps them all separate from each other so as to not contaminate the results...

I personally don't believe we can ever understand the quantum entanglement dilemma unless we have a paradigm shift in thinking. And maybe by then, we'll be gods ourselves to others...

[Arkilogue]

These days, my attitude is just that if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, let's stop wondering whether it could be something else.  

There are countless possibilities.... Where do we start?

Eg: how can we ever know what's outside the sandbox if this is by design?
Also, how might this change anything? Or do we want or need it to?

Maybe god is a super technician who goes around creating universes to study them but keeps them all separate from each other so as to not contaminate the results...

I personally don't believe we can ever understand the quantum entanglement dilemma unless we have a paradigm shift in  thinking. And maybe by then, we'll be gods ourselves to others...

I've found very few plausible possibilities for the prior to inflation state: Quantum nothing (currently very new and popular), finite something (also popular but seen as "old style") or infinite something which is the oldest idea of all these and vehemently railed against by theist and atheist alike, shunned by cosmologists and mathematicians, and constantly renormalized for by quantum physicists.

So much trouble over such simple an idea...a simple paradigm shift of perspective to that of the Infinite.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Albeit interesting it is only a hypothesis that has not been tested.

Your comment is similar to saying that evolution has not been tested. If you watch the video you will see how many experiments confirm the simulation hypothesis. It appears to have significant explanatory power and alternative theories, particularly materialism, have been falsified by those same experiments.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Isn't this just kicking the bucket one notch back up the infinite regression fallacy?  Besides being absolutely soul destroying and mind paralyzing of course.

A necessary being will avoid infinite regress. Next, the simulation theory does not really seem all that soul killing to me. It depends how how you interpret and/or apply it, particularly in light of Aristotle's distinction between act and potency.

[ScienceAf]

Albeit interesting it is only a hypothesis that has not been tested.

Your comment is similar to saying that evolution has not been tested. If you watch the video you will see how many experiments confirm the simulation hypothesis. It appears to have significant explanatory power and alternative theories, particularly materialism, have been falsified by those same experiments.

There's a difference between a hypothesis and a theory.
Evolution is a tested and (mostly) confirmed theory.
Simulation hypothesis is well... A hypothesis.
You can look up the difference because I'm to tired to explain it today.

[The Grand Nudger]

Albeit interesting it is only a hypothesis that has not been tested.

Your comment is similar to saying that evolution has not been tested. If you watch the video you will see how many experiments confirm the simulation hypothesis. It appears to have significant explanatory power and alternative theories, particularly materialism, have been falsified by those same experiments.

I think you might be writing checks the hypothesis can't cash, Chad.

If you don't mind, describe what it explains..particularly what it explains that is not better explained elsewise?
If you don't mind, lay out the falsification of materialism contained within thoes experiements, particularly what experiment both validated the hypothesis and falsified materialism, as you see it?

For extra credit, explain how a falsification of materialism might be contained within a necessarily materialistic framework...like a scientific experiment?

[Neo-Scholastic]

If you don't mind, describe what it explains..particularly what it explains that is not better explained elsewise?...If you don't mind, lay out the falsification of materialism contained within thoes experiements, particularly what experiment both validated the hypothesis and falsified materialism, as you see it?

If you had actually watched the movie you would not be asking me those questions; but rather, responding to them directly. Afraid of what you might learn?

For extra credit, explain how a falsification of materialism might be contained within a necessarily materialistic framework...like a scientific experiment?

You must be joking if you think that science can only be conducted within a materialist framework. Maybe you would care to explain why science can only be conducted within a materialist framework? What you are really doing is defining away anything that doesn't fit inside you small little box of things you consider possible.