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Steve H

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Are we living in a computer simulation?
« on: October 25, 2020, 06:18:13 AM »
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Re: Are we living in a computer simulation?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2020, 07:25:06 AM »
You do realise Vlad will come out of the woodwork any moment to claim this is theism, don't you?
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Re: Are we living in a computer simulation?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2020, 08:12:48 AM »
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Re: Are we living in a computer simulation?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2020, 12:35:04 PM »
Quote from: Never Talk to Strangers on October 25, 2020, 07:25:06 AM
You do realise Vlad will come out of the woodwork any moment to claim this is theism, don't you?
This is theism.
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Re: Are we living in a computer simulation?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2020, 01:48:23 PM »
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Re: Are we living in a computer simulation?
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2020, 10:54:11 AM »
If we are living in a simulation, then whoever set it up is effectively God.
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Re: Are we living in a computer simulation?
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2020, 12:35:33 PM »
The idea is just another route to the usual infinite regression...

As an (apparently) concious entity I have to deal with the universe of my experience: Anything "outside" of that, is total speculation and not determinable or even subject to logic - no matter how interesting, enjoyable or horrible those thoughts/ideas/beliefs may be. 

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