Are we living in a simulation?
RE: Is reality a simulation?
The answer can be one of three possibilities.
- There is objective truth;
- There is NO objective truth;
- Reality is a simulation (thereby faking objective truth).
As an initial step, for us to be able to consider the above question together, we must have an objectively true (SHARED) process to discover truth. That is, we must agree to a process. If we don’t, then 2 is explicitly true for you and me (because there can be no SHARED truth).
Furthermore, Option 3, ipso facto, is not possible since it also requires agreement (for objective truth).
Alternatively, I now declare that the image below, representing the process of finding truth, is objectively true. Why? Because none protest it with another option other than option 2 above (covered above).
So, for this definition, some axiomatic truths follow:
There is absolute truth, and thus …
- There is a reality (absolute truth–i.e., no simulation);
- Objective truth exists (i.e., with reason we can arrive at a common truth);
- And that a creator is not an unreasonable hypothesis for the existence of reality (a reason for everything–i.e., the UNKNOWN hypothesis).
