[Serious] Is the Past Real?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The outcome is the same whether or not those scenarios are the result of something that happened in a ‘real’ past.

If the we-are-living-in-a-SIM-universe crowd are right (another proposition the truth or falsity of which doesn’t matter), then it’s perfectly plausible that our entire existence is re-created instant by instant and that the terms ‘past’ and ‘future’ are meaningless.

Boru

Last Thursdayism may, in fact, be real (at least until Wednesday), but scientific models have made (and, continue to make) testable predictions about past events.  The hypothesis that we live in some sort of simulation, hologram or "God did it" has not yet led to any testable, falsifiable predictions.

Fine by me, since I’m not supporting either last Thursdayism or a simulation hypothesis.

Boru