Friday, December 17, 2021

Color me skeptical …

… Reality check: could our universe be a simulation? | The Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I don’t hear in any of this anything that sounds like philosophy as I know it (I did study it). I’ll stick with Werner Heisenberg (whose Physics and Philosophy everyone should read): “I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”

Philosophy, as I was instructed in it, meant understanding the present in terms of eternity. Its usual wrong turn is understanding eternity in terms of the transient present.

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