Post #2460250
2026-04-22 06:56 UTC
There is a clash of scholar cultures here, which is fair. I tested the versions of the #SimulationHypothesis (SH) that can be tested using physics, as clearly explained in the article (and my last commenters get it), as in the "Matrix" scenario. Solipsistic version of the SH cannot be tested, at least I could not figure out how, nor versions in which the simulation happens in entirely different universes, and this is discussed too (and my commenters get it too).
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@franco_vazza@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 07:01
It seems that since I cited one of the most influential paper on the subject, by N. Bostrom ("are you living in a computer simulation?", 2003) I wanted to debunk only that possible version - which for reasons given above, it cannot be entirely done, and I think this is well acknowledged. However, Bostrom's paper, despite its general philosophical deep implications, explicitly focuses on the "Matrix" scenario I tried to debunk: