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Simulation As Modern Radical Skepticism
- The simulation hypothesis is a modern form of radical skepticism akin to Descartes' demon or brain-in-a-vat scenarios.
- If you reject this skepticism wholesale you avoid its self-defeating corrosive doubt about reason and knowledge.
Skepticism Undermines Its Own Grounds
- Doubting your cognitive faculties undercuts reason itself and thus undermines any argument, including for the simulation hypothesis.
- Radical doubt becomes self-defeating because it corrodes the very tools used to argue for skepticism.
Wife’s Instant Rejection Of Simulation
- Pat relates how his wife immediately rejected the simulation idea as absurd, exemplifying common-sense intuitions.
- He uses that reaction to show ordinary deep intuitions support trusting our faculties.