We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation(onezero.medium.com)
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We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation
https://onezero.medium.com/we-need-to-find-out-if-we-are-living-in-a-simulation-1ae70919505b
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It seems self-evident to me, although I'm willing to admit I'm wrong about this, that if the creators of the simulation we find ourselves in didn't want us to figure this out, we couldn't. The rules could be set up to prevent us from discovering the truth, and they could have caused a "blind spot" in our reasoning that prevents us from even realizing it.
Only if they're perfect.
I don't think perfection would be required to set hard limits to a simulated being's ability to reason, although perfection would certainly seal the deal.
I'm just thinking that concepts x, y, and z could be forbidden, such that we couldn't think about them, nor even realize that we couldn't think about them. A circle around which our knowledge could expand without ever dipping into.
I'm just thinking that concepts x, y, and z could be forbidden, such that we couldn't think about them, nor even realize that we couldn't think about them. A circle around which our knowledge could expand without ever dipping into.
This is not a new idea or concept. Let us not forget the Allegory of the Cave. Plato Was discussing this same issue long ago.
The article does mention Plato's Cave.
This is what happens when I speed-read. I end up looking like an idiot. :P
If we live in a simulation, then someone made the simulation. Now you have a Creator, or Creators.
That Creator might have something like a debugger that they could attach to the simulation. They could use the debugger to change data inside the simulation. When they do, it really changes in the simulation, for no cause that can be discerned from within the simulation. Now you have miracles.
The Creator could even plausibly communicate with entities within the simulation. Now you have divine revelation.
I can see why a theist or deist could believe this. But why do atheists buy it? Don't they see that they're going right back to a (virtual) deism?