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Nearly Sane

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Is we is or is we not a simulation?
« on: January 21, 2019, 07:07:15 PM »
This seems to fit in the interstices between science and philosophy but it's a reasonable summary.


https://bigthink.com/arguments-live-matrix--arguments-against?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2
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Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2019, 02:06:23 PM »
Being completely unfalsifiable, it is a completely useless theory, I'd've thought, but I bet we're seeing the birth of the next loony internet conspiracy theory.
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Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2019, 04:18:23 PM »
We are in a simulation, and it began last Thursday tea time.
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Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2019, 05:30:15 PM »
Oh blast! I blinked and missed it. Like the red moon.
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Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2019, 05:32:21 PM »
Quote from: BeRational on January 22, 2019, 04:18:23 PM
We are in a simulation, and it began last Thursday tea time.

Yup, my friend Martin saw the same shape pass his window twice in exactly the same manner last Sunday. This is, I understand, the classic way of identifying that we're in the Matrix.
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Re: Is we is or is we not a simulation?
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2019, 08:49:08 PM »

I always thought the song title was "Is you is or is you ain't . . . "?
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