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The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
- The debate over “is it real or fake” is somewhat ironic, because so much of what we experience as reality even within our own bodies is actually simulation.
from magic, online! by Nick Susi
Severin Matusek and added
Scientific realism in physics Realism in physics (especially quantum mechanics) is the claim that the world is in some sense mind-independent: that even if the results of a possible measurement do not pre-exist the act of measurement, that does not require that they are the creation of the observer (contrary to the "consciousness causes collapse" i
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perhaps our vision of an ultimately knowable human path through space and time isn’t merely problematic because it is incomplete. Perhaps it is per se impossible.
from The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
Debbie Foster added
- “There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”
“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where ... See moreAdam Gamwell and added
Reality is very weird, and you need to be prepared for that. Like the hypothetical Holst, most of us would be tempted to discard this argument entirely out of hand. But this weird argument is correct, because reality is itself very weird. Looking at this “contradictory” evidence and responding with these weird bespoke splitting arguments turns out
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Jonathan Simcoe added
Such a great point. Often we discard what we presume to be fringe case ideas when they might true because "reality is very weird".- I’m not sure how common this way of thinking actually is, but, whatever the case, this strikes me as a rather banal observation if all Chalmers means by it is that virtual reality exists. Of course it exists. Of course the experience of putting on VR goggles and navigating a VR environment is a real, genuine experience. What matters is the specific... See more
from The Dream of Virtual Reality by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Alex Wittenberg added
The more I grappled with the complexity of reality, the more I suspected that we have all been living a comforting lie, from the stories we tell about ourselves to the myths we use to explain history and social change. I began to wonder whether the history of humanity is just an endless, but futile, struggle to impose order, certainty, and rational
... See morefrom Fluke by Brian Klaas
Debbie Foster added