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mootcat t1_ixcfc7j wrote

Reply to comment by Plenty-Today4117 in Expert Proposes a Method For Telling if We All Live in a Computer Program by garden_frog

Our minds are extremely fallible. Eyewitness accounts are historically terrible and weighed very little in court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony

I get that what you perceived felt like reality to you, but doesn't it seem a bit extreme to assume that very laws of the universe are what glitched and not your own biology?

People hallucinate, misunderstand, misremember and have any number of faults in their perception everyday.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory

To you what you experienced is reality and that's totally fine. In the same way someone with a different neurology might see or hear something that I could not. That does not make that experience true at large.

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BenjaminHamnett t1_ixd327m wrote

I’ve mis seen things. People hallucinate and survive their bad driving.

It’s more likely we’re in a properly functioning simulation and this dude mis saw something than for this to be proof that the sim malfunctioned

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Plenty-Today4117 t1_ixeqwyn wrote

*Some* people hallucinate. I don't do recreational drugs, nor do I take prescribed drugs, nor does anyone in my family line have genetic predisposition to it. Hallucination is not something I do, but it might be something you do.

If you seriously believe what you are saying, you would not drive a car, nor cross any road, because you could be hallucinating.

Wikipedia is not a credible source. They used to fail students for using it. Its founder says its been hijacked by politically motivated people who use it to quote each other. But since you like Wikipedia so much here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Findings_Are_False

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