How do you know you’re not living in a computer simulation?

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How do you know you’re not living in a computer simulation?

Consider this: right now, you are not where you think you are. In fact, you happen to be the subject of a science experiment being conducted by an evil genius.

Your brain has been expertly removed from your body and is being kept alive in a vat of nutrients that sits on a laboratory bench.

The nerve endings of your brain are connected to a supercomputer that feeds you all the sensations of everyday life. This is why you think you’re living a completely normal life.

Do you still exist? Are you still even “you”? And is the world as you know it a figment of your imagination or an illusion constructed by this evil scientist?

Sounds like a nightmare scenario. But can you say with absolute certainty that it’s not true?

Could you prove to someone that you aren’t actually a brain in a vat?
 
Kevin Lancaster said:
How do you know you’re not living in a computer simulation?

Consider this: right now, you are not where you think you are. In fact, you happen to be the subject of a science experiment being conducted by an evil genius.

Your brain has been expertly removed from your body and is being kept alive in a vat of nutrients that sits on a laboratory bench.

The nerve endings of your brain are connected to a supercomputer that feeds you all the sensations of everyday life. This is why you think you’re living a completely normal life.

Do you still exist? Are you still even “you”? And is the world as you know it a figment of your imagination or an illusion constructed by this evil scientist?

Sounds like a nightmare scenario. But can you say with absolute certainty that it’s not true?

Could you prove to someone that you aren’t actually a brain in a vat?
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Roald Dahl short story plagiarised....shame...shame....shame.

As to the question, unless the simulation is handling fatal exceptions (pun intended!) much better than any computer program I've ever seen, I can guarantee I'm not in a simulation. There is no programmer or programmers good enough to simulate real life without crashing and burning a million times a day.
 
Neoprod said:
Roald Dahl short story plagiarised....shame...shame....shame.

As to the question, unless the simulation is handling fatal exceptions (pun intended!) much better than any computer program I've ever seen, I can guarantee I'm not in a simulation. There is no programmer or programmers good enough to simulate real life without crashing and burning a million times a day.
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That's what the Matrix wants you to believe.
 
Did someone really program in bad eyesight so that one would require glasses to see the computer simulation clearly?
 
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Neoprod said:
Roald Dahl short story plagiarised....shame...shame....shame.

As to the question, unless the simulation is handling fatal exceptions (pun intended!) much better than any computer program I've ever seen, I can guarantee I'm not in a simulation. There is no programmer or programmers good enough to simulate real life without crashing and burning a million times a day.
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In this world. The guy running the simulation has control of your brain man, he is manipulating your thoughts!
 
Hamster said:
In this world. The guy running the simulation has control of your brain man, he is manipulating your thoughts!
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Oh...he's telling me that there aren't any programmers or technologies capable enough to do it so that I buy into it?

mind blown...excuse me while I drop this tab of acid and attempt to see through the veil.
 
Nice try Kevin, we saw the Matrix.
 
Find a glitch, then you know we are fcked. until then, the matrix doesnt exist
 
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The burden of proof is on proving the claim, not proving the negative of the claim. That negative proof requirement is the same logic that religious people use.
 
deweyzeph said:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The burden of proof is on proving the claim, not proving the negative of the claim. That negative proof requirement is the same logic that religious people use.
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Any claim requires proof.

Claiming X requires proof.
Claiming Y requires proof, even if Y happens to be (not X).

Without proof, the claim is unknown, not false.
 
Niobe: Why do you do that?
Ghost: Do what?
Niobe: Check your guns.
Ghost: You never know.
Niobe: This is a program, they're loaded the same every time.
Ghost: Hume teaches us that no matter how many times you drop a stone and it falls to the floor, you never know what'll happen the next time you drop it. It might fall to the floor, but then again it might float to the ceiling. Past experience never proves the future.
Niobe: So...?
Ghost: So, you never know.
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Best line from the matrix.
 
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