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Are we all just part of a computer simulation? Scientists are trying to find that out.

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Are we all just part of a computer simulation? Scientists are trying to find that out.
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RE: Are we all just part of a computer simulation? Scientists are trying to find that out.
December 17, 2012 at 1:31 pm
(December 17, 2012 at 1:29 pm)genkaus Wrote:
(December 17, 2012 at 1:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: If its a testable hypothosis why not test it?
if only to rule it out.

I don't see it as testable because there is no falsifiability. Success of simulations on our part does not imply that our universe is simulated and the failure does not prove that it is not.

But it may point to falsifiability.

And it would be cool.



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RE: Are we all just part of a computer simulation? Scientists are trying to find that out. - by downbeatplumb - December 17, 2012 at 1:31 pm

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