Rizwan Virk

And he kicks a rock and he goes, that's how I refute it.

See, it's physical.

It's there.

And so that's the first common sense way people try to refute the idea.

But of course, that's not what the physicists are saying.

The physicists are the one telling us that the world doesn't really exist, that it consists of information and space-time gets constructed out of that information.

That's one of the biggest, I think, issues.

Another way that people try to push back on the idea of simulation theory is they say, well, it's not really falsifiable.

I can't design an experiment that proves we are not in a simulation.

So this touches on the boundary issues of science.

Like where does science end, right?

And where does philosophy begin?

Where does metaphysics begin?

Where does religion begin?

And those lines are actually fuzzier than you might think, right?

Because there's been a debate over that for a long time now, for hundreds of years, about what is scientific and what isn't, right?

And things like UFOs and paranormal phenomena and all this stuff gets kind of pushed out

beyond that boundary.

But so one definition that a guy named Popper came up with was if it's not falsifiable, it's not scientific.

Meaning if you can't prove that it's false.