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originally posted by: Krahzeef_Ukhar
As an atheist I really don't like saying this but I'm curious where the flaws in my thinking are.
The idea that we are living in a simulation seems to be perfectly accepted as a valid theory (or hypothesis for you nerds).
We are not there yet, but when we can make a simulation that is indistinguishable from reality we will make another.
Then another, then another...
If it's indistinguishable from reality then once the first one is created then the chances you are in reality is 50%, after the 2nd one is made it drops to 33.3%, after the 99th you're down to a 1% chance that you were not created by an interdimensional being that lives outside time.
Even if you're lucky enough to be in reality #1, there will be a point when you're a fool if you believed that to be the case.
Maybe not at 1%, what about 0.1%, or 0.00000001%.
Is it possible that we've been born into a world without a god and have the potential to make it a mathematical certainty?
originally posted by: MadLad
We cannot live in a simulation; we could only believe we are living in a simulation. Even if you were plugged into a simulation that is indistinguishable from reality, you'd still be in reality.
originally posted by: Krahzeef_Ukhar
originally posted by: MadLad
We cannot live in a simulation; we could only believe we are living in a simulation. Even if you were plugged into a simulation that is indistinguishable from reality, you'd still be in reality.
That's assuming you're the star of the simulation.
Another mathematical unlikelihood.
originally posted by: Lumenari
Throughout history we have made gods though.
Science will never prove that God exists, they can only point to such ideas as intelligent design.
originally posted by: Krahzeef_Ukhar
originally posted by: Lumenari
Throughout history we have made gods though.
Absolutely, the point is that we have the potential to make it a mathematical certainty in the future.
There still won't be a god, but atheists will no longer having science backing them up.
originally posted by: dug88
Science doesn't prove anything. It's based on falsification. It disproves a lot but doesn't ever conclusively prove anything. That's the point...
originally posted by: Krahzeef_Ukhar
originally posted by: dug88
Science doesn't prove anything. It's based on falsification. It disproves a lot but doesn't ever conclusively prove anything. That's the point...
OK, you've got me on a technicality then.
Although proved or 99.9999999% likely doesn't really hurt my point.
originally posted by: Krahzeef_Ukhar
a reply to: MadLad
I'm thinking more Sims.
originally posted by: MadLad
It seems god would be about as likely to live in a simulation as we do, wouldn’t it? I’m aware of the theory, but it seems infinitely regressive.
originally posted by: dug88
No honestly the rest of your actual op was just a bunch of incoherent nonsense...