Or are we all members of the reality we inhabit in our mental subconscious?
2006-12-05 00:35:20 · 21 answers · asked by Dr No 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nick Bostrom has distilled the essense of the answer you're looking for down to this logical argument - If we accept that intelligent, technological civilization is not a one-off, one of the following statements must be true...
1. No technological civilization ever attains a level of technology where they can run simulations of reality so detailed they can be mistaken for reality; or
2. Races who do reach such a level do not tend to run such simulations for whatever reason; or
3. We are almost certainly living in such a simulation.
2006-12-05 02:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by Batho 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can only be suspected to be here, and as you ask the question therefore you are here, but not as you know, but as I know, and you would like to know what I know – the answer. You are here but not the way you are where you are.
The fist fact is that both the ‘I’ and the ‘here’ cannot be universally determined, they are exclusive to each unique being in existence. My own personal ‘I’ and ‘here’ for example can be anywhere in existence, like to ones belonging to anyone else. This fact also relates to you as – you are here, but my ‘here’ and your ‘here’ are mutually exclusive to one another, meaning that they are not the one and the same; I am where I am your where you are. You asking the question makes all the difference, you are here as the question as I am here as the answer you like to know.
The second important fact is that both the ‘I’ and the ‘here’ are not mutually equivalent concepts, as I can say – I am here, but I cannot say - here is I. This means my ‘here’ also includes something apart from myself – the ‘I’. Now that something that I am not must be you. I am here as an answer but you are here too – as a question.
We are all questions and answers to one another, and this is the reason we all are here!
2006-12-05 10:20:55 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are here, but you can't prove it, just believe it. If no one is nowhere then we wouldn't even think anything or have an imagination. People keep saying we aren't in the Matrix, but how do they know?
2006-12-05 09:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the time being.
2006-12-05 14:59:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put "Matrix" back on the shelf. Visit the family or friends. Interact with real people, you will then answer your own question.
2006-12-05 08:42:40 · answer #5 · answered by sharon_misspriss 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
does it really matter. We are here and this is all we know. So live your life as you are really here.
2006-12-05 08:48:36 · answer #6 · answered by yournotalone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you're a figment of my imagination.
2006-12-05 09:41:23 · answer #7 · answered by DanRSN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I am afraid you are. Sorry!
2006-12-05 09:39:34 · answer #8 · answered by MI5 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a pin and press if you feel pain so you are there if not youare not with you any more
2006-12-05 08:43:22 · answer #9 · answered by tongbahinee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just take a gun and shoot your hand and if you really feel it then your really here.
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2006-12-05 10:02:54 · answer #10 · answered by nancy o 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋