
Ep 87: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 1
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Solipsism, the Idea That Only You Exist
The idea of solipsism, this idea that only you exist and everything's being dreamed into reality, it just keeps cropping up again and again in the history of philosophy. The movies, the matrix are all about this as well, that perhaps we're sitting inside of some sort of computer simulation type thing. Taken to an even more extreme we have Nick Bostrom simulation hypothesis. All of these are logically equivalent, they're what Lulee Tannett has called supernaturalism,. We can ignore all these things because we can refute them not by experiment but by argument which is where David will get to.
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