Philosophical Speculations

@AshvinP @Martin_ Do you agree with him on it not mattering? If this is a virtual reality and "you" are both a player of some unknowable origin that is wearing the VR headset and an avatar within the virtual world that the player has some control of - it has huge implications. This situati...

So, keeping it very simple, even though this is a deep and contested issue in philosophy, your example there is of the "correspondence theory of truth". Your statement is true under that theory if it corresponds to "objective" fact(s) in the world - in this case the fact that yo...

The key is to realize that what is True under pragmatic idealism cannot possibly be useless, i.e. not tell us anything of value to our lives. BK is aligned with pragmatic idealism as far as I can tell. None of us start from a completely "neutral" metaphysics when evaluating other perspect...

Kastrup doesn't mean / say that simulation theory is false. He means that even if it were true, it wouldn't tell us anything about the true nature of the ultimate universe. So bringing simulation theory into an ontic discussion is pointless. @Martin: it might be pointless (I'm not sure it is) but t...

Kastrup doesn't mean / say that simulation theory is false. He means that even if it were true, it wouldn't tell us anything about the true nature of the ultimate universe. So bringing simulation theory into an ontic discussion is pointless. @Martin: it might be pointless (I'm not sure it is) but t...

@electricshephard let's say we take it literally (i don't). If we assume we are base reality and Mario in Super Mario is a being within a simulation (one level below base) - he can explain his reality in terms of our computer program (if he could learn about it) and/or the electrical signals on the ...

@electricshephard: not sure I follow. why is it not what he is saying? and why doesn't n=1 (if that's the case) answer the question of the base?

Hi everyone, I watched this AMA with Bernardo. I have the utmost respect for Bernardo and his work but I struggle to make sense of some of his answers. Specifically, he is asked about the simulation hypothesis (link should point to the correct timestamp): https://youtu.be/LqJ1189lHJk?t=1732 1. He di...