There’s a lot of nonsense I daydream about, like how it seems like my life is actually repeating itself again and again as if I was stuck in a time loop and was the only person to faintly remember bits of those preceding iterations. I like to play pretend with such ideas, though I don’t believe in them in the rational sense, more in the “I don’t believe in ghosts but I’m still crept out at night”
The closest I come to believing something rationally, which is still not rational in the purest, Occam sense, is that we may be living in a simulation that is running in a reality that is ontologically different from ours. After all, if we were running in a simulation, why should it be run by our descendants, or even in an universe like the one that was simulated ? To assume so is to fall for an observation selection bias I think. Why not from a place where “place”, “running” and “simulation” do not necessarily take the same meaning as they do here.
Like, you know, it is common to muse about universes with different physical rules and constants, I’m just taking this a step further; a reality whose rules of “mathematics” would encompass and supersede ours, that is, there would be mathematical, or ontological principles, that would exist up there, but not here. We would be prisoners in an ontologically impoverished reality, without even the tools to understand the higher realm, let alone break out of ours.
In such a reality, the equivalent of mathematics would not obey Gödel’s theorems, they would be consistent and all statements would be true and provable; that would need and imply at least one supplemental axiom there, the one that would at least not exist here, that would permit it, and open a whole new branch of mathematical truths and possibilities.
Like, if we all have a God-shaped hole in our soul, then mathematics has a Gödel-shaped hole in its own, and I wanted to imagine what it’d be like to have it filled.
I don’t really see how we could ever prove or disprove that though. Maybe some variation of that idea, might be falsifiable. If not, then it’s an irrational belief too.
There’s a lot of nonsense I daydream about, like how it seems like my life is actually repeating itself again and again as if I was stuck in a time loop and was the only person to faintly remember bits of those preceding iterations. I like to play pretend with such ideas, though I don’t believe in them in the rational sense, more in the “I don’t believe in ghosts but I’m still crept out at night”
The closest I come to believing something rationally, which is still not rational in the purest, Occam sense, is that we may be living in a simulation that is running in a reality that is ontologically different from ours. After all, if we were running in a simulation, why should it be run by our descendants, or even in an universe like the one that was simulated ? To assume so is to fall for an observation selection bias I think. Why not from a place where “place”, “running” and “simulation” do not necessarily take the same meaning as they do here.
Like, you know, it is common to muse about universes with different physical rules and constants, I’m just taking this a step further; a reality whose rules of “mathematics” would encompass and supersede ours, that is, there would be mathematical, or ontological principles, that would exist up there, but not here. We would be prisoners in an ontologically impoverished reality, without even the tools to understand the higher realm, let alone break out of ours.
In such a reality, the equivalent of mathematics would not obey Gödel’s theorems, they would be consistent and all statements would be true and provable; that would need and imply at least one supplemental axiom there, the one that would at least not exist here, that would permit it, and open a whole new branch of mathematical truths and possibilities.
Like, if we all have a God-shaped hole in our soul, then mathematics has a Gödel-shaped hole in its own, and I wanted to imagine what it’d be like to have it filled.
I don’t really see how we could ever prove or disprove that though. Maybe some variation of that idea, might be falsifiable. If not, then it’s an irrational belief too.