Re:We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation
by AnimalMuppet on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:31PM
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I find it really ironic that atheists are so obsessed with the idea that we live in a simulation.
If we live in a simulation, then someone made the simulation. Now you have a Creator, or Creators.
That Creator might have something like a debugger that they could attach to the simulation. They could use the debugger to change data inside the simulation. When they do, it really changes in the simulation, for no cause that can be discerned from within the simulation. Now you have miracles.
The Creator could even plausibly communicate with entities within the simulation. Now you have divine revelation.
I can see why a theist or deist could believe this. But why do atheists buy it? Don't they see that they're going right back to a (virtual) deism?
If we live in a simulation, then someone made the simulation. Now you have a Creator, or Creators.
That Creator might have something like a debugger that they could attach to the simulation. They could use the debugger to change data inside the simulation. When they do, it really changes in the simulation, for no cause that can be discerned from within the simulation. Now you have miracles.
The Creator could even plausibly communicate with entities within the simulation. Now you have divine revelation.
I can see why a theist or deist could believe this. But why do atheists buy it? Don't they see that they're going right back to a (virtual) deism?