Posted: Nov 07, 2018 11:44 pm
gobshite wrote:Destroyer wrote:gobshite wrote:Destroyer wrote:
Whether or not it is claimed or merely proposed that the universe is a simulation is besides the point. The point is that no simulation can have an infinite regress, as you have been arguing. Because, an infinite regress of simulations takes no account of the original. There has to be an original that is distinct from the simulation, otherwise such a proposition or claim makes no sense.
To be fair to newolder, they are saying that an infinite regression makes no sense - hence the reductio ad absurdum.
You don't appear to have been following the argument. Who exactly has been arguing for an infinite regression, and who has been saying that it makes no sense?
newolder certainly hasn't been claiming that we exist in an infinite regression. Do you know what reductio ad absurdum means?
Read the thread. I don't have time waste.