I don’t accept the logic behind “I think therefore I am” and I think there is a reasonable chance that I or even the universe doesn’t in any sense exist.
Sure, when the dust settles, it could turn out that apples don’t exist, Earth doesn’t exist, reality doesn’t exist. But the nonexistent apples will still fall toward the nonexistent ground at a meaningless rate of 9.8 m/s2.
By in any sense I mean there might be “nothing” as most people would define it rather than as it is defined in quantum physics.
If you accept that the universe exists then the most remarkable think about the universe is that it does exist. So you should only accept that there is almost certainly something if you have an exceptionally large amount of evidence.
I don’t accept the logic behind “I think therefore I am” and I think there is a reasonable chance that I or even the universe doesn’t in any sense exist.
Type I error: existing, but believing you don’t exist
Type II error: not existing, but believing you exist
I’m more worried about type I than type II error.
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Any sense at all? Could you clarify?
By in any sense I mean there might be “nothing” as most people would define it rather than as it is defined in quantum physics.
If you accept that the universe exists then the most remarkable think about the universe is that it does exist. So you should only accept that there is almost certainly something if you have an exceptionally large amount of evidence.
I ditto James_Miller, primarily because the definition of ‘exist’ I worked out can’t apply to the universe as a whole.