Breathtaking Insight or Idle Speculation? Are we inside The Matrix? #poem #poetry #science #computer #game

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Bella Lugosi makes a fine Mad Scientist – who maybe created our simulation in the first original universe – if there was one

Extraordinary evidence

Makes extraordinary claims.

Extraordinary people

Will sometimes do the same.

A big enough memory

In a big enough machine

Perhaps could simulate

The universe I’ve seen.

Ancient Greek philosophers

Knew nothing of our chips and RAM,

Yet said that if I cannot see,

I cannot know

that

I am.

Until someone can falsify,

Propose a test to tell,

The question is philosophy,

A summer dream’s intel.

A slice of heaven, pinch of hell,

Rhapsodizing as I tell

How to ride a bit-byte swell

From deep inside my techno-well.

Logging off.

Kate Rauner

Thanks to skeptoid, one of my favorite sites. They don’t usually venture into philosophy, but when they do, it’s fun.