Sara Imari Walker

But I think like everybody has things like that.

And if they if like we just do, you know, experiments with our own minds, it's kind of interesting to probe the boundary of like things you take for granted that you think you can do or you can visualize and you just can't.

It's just not in your head.

Do you know if your friend could still imagine smell or did they lose the ability to even recall what smells were?

Yeah.

Right.

Well, our sensory perception only like that evolved biologically only took us so far.

But like obviously like we're sitting here talking about neutrinos because we have built technologies that can detect their existence and validate that they're there.

And then we have theories that would be consistent with what you're just saying.

So the ways that we see the world, I guess my point is, are not just the biological ones, but they're becoming enhanced by technology in all sorts of ways.

And theories and explanations are part of that technological infrastructure, which is why we can talk about that.

Or gravitational waves, for example, is another one.

Going through us right now.

Yeah.

Well, I think it's amazing how much of like the physical world you can get a sense of by simple things like that.

Like we really do live in a physical reality.

Like I know some people want to think we live in a simulation, but like there's a real physical world.

And I think we only kind of misconceive of it as a simulation because like so much of our environment now is architected by human minds that it seems not real, but it is real.

No, I find it inadequate.

It doesn't seem like it's a better explanation than any other current explanation for how the universe works.