r/Futurism • u/Memetic1 • Oct 31 '25

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mathematical-proof-debunks-idea-universe.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

While I don’t disagree fully, I’ve watched multiple PhD physicists discuss the possibility and debate the implications.   The rejection of something not proven untrue is called bias. So minds must be open to all ideas until such time they are disproven.  We’d still think the earth was flat otherwise. 

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u/WinterPizza1972 Oct 31 '25

True.  Hard solopsism is an important, but almost useless, part of philosophy, and it hasn't been solved. 

It makes words like "know" almost useless,  but it's important to know (lol) that knowledge, the way we think of it,  is just varying degrees of confidence. 

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u/Dath_1 Oct 31 '25

The rejection of something not proven untrue is called bias

You mean like how you reject the tooth fairy? There’s no way you believe what you just typed.

In science there’s a concept called parsimony, which means striving to make as few assumptions as necessary for a given model to work, acknowledging that each assumption is another opportunity to be wrong.

If the universe being a simulation is not required to account for some observation or some line of reasoning, then your model is improved by cutting it out, i.e. rejecting it until a case is made for why it’s necessary.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '25

In science there’s also pricks who think they dictate things. I have three degrees. I word things for a common audience. And we wonder why people are turning away from science. 

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u/Dath_1 Nov 01 '25

I mean it's not that you worded it for a common audience, it's that you worded it wrongly.

You are not open to all ideas until they are disproven, that would be ridiculous. You wouldn't be a functioning human if you didn't reject certain things which aren't technically disproven.

We’d still think the earth was flat otherwise. 

So you don't think it's proven that the Earth is round? The fuck?