What Nature Really Is

Once upon a time … the mechanical clock was considered to be a fantastically complex marvel. To the minds of the time, the unimaginably complex Universe could only be expressed as a fantastically complex clock (wound by a “Great Watchmaker”). The old idea that the Universe was a marvelous clock was, demonstrably, a projection of 18th-century imaginations. The modern mind now marvels at fantastically complex computer systems that create fantastically convincing simulations … and reduces our unimaginably complex Universe to just a marvelous computer (perhaps programmed by an “Intelligent Designer”).

These are all myths. We feel, therefore, we exist. Our feelings are not simulated.

Nature acts on itsown accord and is free from the jurisdiction of any Deceptive Deity.

The idea that the Universe is a simulation is nonsense, literally, “non-sensible” in that it dismisses (as being unreal) the very senses that disclose reality. Without our senses, we have no way to test against a false belief.

The idea that our sensible reality is just a simulation has ancient roots with Plato's Academics. The Platonists believed that this world was a mere shadow to a Superior Domain of Forms. Epicurus noted that this belief (that the world is just a shadow) has a glaring problem: if you “awoke” from a simulation, how could you be sure that you didn't just awaken into another simulation? How can you sense what is un-simulated … unless the sensible reality is the un-simulated reality.