Are we living in a computer simulation?

[Wildman]

Albert Einstein did indeed make some astounding observations, but most tend to ignore them...

[Rudge]

Rudge, while I agree about the lack of evidence, we must recognize that all scientific theories have parts without evidence to support it filling gaps with speculation when is needed. That's why there are people researching dark matter, in 1932 it was just a guess (not that is much different now but I'm not actualized); Piaget did a complete theory about human development describing the different stages, but when confronted with the driving force behind learning he hypothesized the "need to recover balance", a construct well behind the theories that describe the search for pleasure and the avoiding of displeasure, some of them well investigated by neurologist and behavioral psychologists.

A field with a lot of speculation is hypnosis, in the last conference I attended I saw the usual psychologists but also lots of medics and dentists that are using it in daily work, still there is a lot of speculation on what it is or why it works.

Science is a little group of facts and a lot of speculation, that conforms a way of thinking called paradigm, when a new explanation about a group of facts appears paradigm changes (not always, in social sciences they tend to coexist) but that new paradigm have a lot of speculation too. Speculation is what drives science growth.

BTW a book that I love about that is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn , I think I will read it again this Christmas 

Crow is a smart man. 

Touche Crow.   

[Crow]

Not smart, in fact I had problems to understand it, that book seems simple until you talk about it in class    classmates can make you feel really stupid at times.

I reviewed that for a full year many moons ago, when I was in Mexico City; I think it was called Philosophy of Science, a name I consider strange now   

[Rudge]

Not smart, in fact I had problems to understand it, that book seems simple until you talk about it in class    classmates can make you feel really stupid at times.

I reviewed that for a full year many moons ago, when I was in Mexico City; I think it was called Philosophy of Science, a name I consider strange now  

Classmates, or any one of a host of other people, might make you feel "ignorant" but that is completely different from being "stupid".

I don't know how you, my friend, could ever feel "stupid".

You are far from anything resembling that description and I suspect that you know it.    

[Crow]

Thank you for your kind words Rudge, ignorant is descriptive, the other thing is the feeling after that 

That feeling can be a force that helps you to be better and is always there, somewhere.

[JALU]

The realities we each experience certainly are part of a simulation - that of our own minds...  to each his own and none are identical.  But the question of the physical universe - I still haven't discovered a way to prove that it is not also a simulation.  The physical universe after all is merely an observation that is subject to the reality of our mind and hence any interaction with this physical construct must conform within this reality.  
deauth.

[Wildman]

Ah Ha, as one thinks, so it is...

[Bald Brick]

Ah Ha, as one thinks, so it is...

That was the whole point of Bishop Berkeley's philosophy some 300 years ago ...

But if that isn't a weird enough idea:

What We Still Don't Know: "Are We Real?"