Reality
metaculture assumes the truth of philosophical realism, or more specifically scientific realism.
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." -Soren Kierkegaard
The reasons for the acceptance of scientific realism are:
- No counter-example has ever been found to disprove the existence of an independent reality that conforms to the laws of physics.
- Alternative theories of reality assert the unverifiable, like simulations, supernatural or extradimensional beings that cannot be observed within the material universe.
- What do you have more confidence in--the existence of objective reality? Or that the complex philosophical arguments against it are right and you have understood them correctly?
- You eventually have to bet on which reality is most likely. That we live together in a universe that exists independently of us and conforms to the laws of physics, or we live in a simulation or a literal interpretation of scripture or some unknowable and eternally confusing plane of existence that is completely subjective.
Given these options, the safest bet is obviously scientific realism.
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