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1 posted on 10/31/2025 6:26:32 AM PDT by week 71
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“Welcome to the real world”


2 posted on 10/31/2025 6:28:08 AM PDT by week 71
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3 posted on 10/31/2025 6:30:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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If we were living in a simulation, this is exactly the kind of story they’d put out to assure everyone it’s not true!


4 posted on 10/31/2025 6:30:41 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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5 posted on 10/31/2025 6:33:15 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Uhm...if we are a simulation then we have no clue how physics works in the real world that the computer or simulator is running in right? Does the physics of a video game have to match real life physics??


6 posted on 10/31/2025 6:34:02 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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That’s what it wants us to think.


7 posted on 10/31/2025 6:35:45 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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” Are we living in a simulation? Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is the ultimate computer”

HUH?


9 posted on 10/31/2025 6:41:23 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Ahhhh, mental masturbation, what can’t it do.


11 posted on 10/31/2025 6:47:04 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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Why is it necessary to debunk a theory that is absolute garbage?


13 posted on 10/31/2025 6:49:27 AM PDT by pfflier
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When I was a kid I thought that once people were out of sight from me that they ceased to exist, until they reappeared. I thought that when I was a kid…….

Growing up in an Italian (Sicilian) family, my mom and dad spoke Italian to my grandparents. I didn’t know there were different languages. I thought that was how old people talked- “Old People Language”. When I was a kid…………

14 posted on 10/31/2025 6:55:28 AM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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Thank God...I was almost not going to work today because I was thinking everything was fake.


18 posted on 10/31/2025 7:21:38 AM PDT by suasponte137
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We ARE living in a delusion of sorts. So, the metaphor is apt.


19 posted on 10/31/2025 7:26:35 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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‘non-algorithmic understanding’.


otherwise known as creation.


20 posted on 10/31/2025 7:29:46 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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If we were living in a simulation, then there must be a reality in which a computer exists powerful enough to run the simulation.

A simulation requires a reality.


21 posted on 10/31/2025 7:39:07 AM PDT by DannyTN
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23 posted on 10/31/2025 7:48:48 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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TLDR: Gödelian truths are proof of real existence.

Gödelian truths refer to statements that are true within a formal system (like arithmetic) but cannot be proven using the axioms and rules of that system itself.

A Gödelian truth is like a puzzle that says “This puzzle has no solution in this box.” You can see it’s true (the box really has no solution), but you can’t prove it using only the pieces inside the box.

In short, we build math on unprovable assumptions.


25 posted on 10/31/2025 7:55:22 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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If the universe is a simulation, what is it a simulation of? A real universe? Itself a simulation of an even realer universe, et cetera.

Analysis: "The universe is a simulation" schtick was always them just f**king with us.

26 posted on 10/31/2025 8:22:52 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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“Thanks to the strangeness of quantum physics, no computer, however powerful, would ever be able to generate what the researchers call ‘non-algorithmic understanding’.”

Then maybe a quantum computer can. They’re just around the corner.


29 posted on 10/31/2025 9:07:08 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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The article is classic reification—confusing math and theoretical constructs with reality.

It is a very common fallacy of much of “science”.


30 posted on 10/31/2025 9:07:37 AM PDT by cgbg ("The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.")
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Since it hurts when you impact the universe for all practical purposes it is quite real.

I don’t care if people want to engage in thought experiments. As long as I don’t have to pay for it.


33 posted on 10/31/2025 9:43:39 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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