Is it not equally insane to completely trust your senses? We know how they can be tricked fairly easily. Like I said before, that’s one of the reasons why real science always has the caveat of “as far as we know”, unwritten at the end of every discovery.
At the end of the day, you don’t know, for sure, with 100% certainty, that you’re not a brain in a jar. Or more statistically likely, a brain popping into existence after the universe ended and then popping out again. (An actual scientific theory backed up by the math which is wild). You simply don’t. All of your existence could be a lie. You just have to make the best guess you can with what info you’ve got and hope you’re correct. Science is very, very good at guessing within the parameters of the information we can observe, but it’s always assuming what we are observing is true.
It’s like, you’re, idk, sitting in a cave, and like, you’re watching these shadows on this wall. You can’t turn around and look at what is making these shadows, so you’re doing your best at guessing, like, what the heck is actually making these shadows. Something like that.
I never said completely. Sure it’s fun to entertain such possibilities, but science doesn’t bother with unverifiable claims. That’s the realm of metaphysics, unless somebody clever or lucky finds an actual glitch in the Matrix which would allow the claim to be verifiable.
Boltzman brain sure is an interesting concept. If I am one and you’re a thought within it, then I must say that it’s a bit funny that it popped into existense with the correct theories of thermodynamics and cosmology that explain the brains own existence. Also means that the universe has seen or will see every possible brainstate, nightmare and daydream, infinite beauty and horror. Oh yeah and we may as well be living in a Boltzmann galaxy that popped into existence in a similar manner.
But alas, the relative improbability of our own (non-Boltzmann brain) existence is not proof against it. Same goes for the simulation hypothesis.
Is it not equally insane to completely trust your senses? We know how they can be tricked fairly easily. Like I said before, that’s one of the reasons why real science always has the caveat of “as far as we know”, unwritten at the end of every discovery.
At the end of the day, you don’t know, for sure, with 100% certainty, that you’re not a brain in a jar. Or more statistically likely, a brain popping into existence after the universe ended and then popping out again. (An actual scientific theory backed up by the math which is wild). You simply don’t. All of your existence could be a lie. You just have to make the best guess you can with what info you’ve got and hope you’re correct. Science is very, very good at guessing within the parameters of the information we can observe, but it’s always assuming what we are observing is true.
It’s like, you’re, idk, sitting in a cave, and like, you’re watching these shadows on this wall. You can’t turn around and look at what is making these shadows, so you’re doing your best at guessing, like, what the heck is actually making these shadows. Something like that.
I never said completely. Sure it’s fun to entertain such possibilities, but science doesn’t bother with unverifiable claims. That’s the realm of metaphysics, unless somebody clever or lucky finds an actual glitch in the Matrix which would allow the claim to be verifiable.
Boltzman brain sure is an interesting concept. If I am one and you’re a thought within it, then I must say that it’s a bit funny that it popped into existense with the correct theories of thermodynamics and cosmology that explain the brains own existence. Also means that the universe has seen or will see every possible brainstate, nightmare and daydream, infinite beauty and horror. Oh yeah and we may as well be living in a Boltzmann galaxy that popped into existence in a similar manner. But alas, the relative improbability of our own (non-Boltzmann brain) existence is not proof against it. Same goes for the simulation hypothesis.