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There is no source of truth. I love Jack, and I understand what he is getting at, but this is important to understand. In fact, maybe the most important thing to understand. Once you realize that there is no ultimate source of truth, then ironically, it enables you to come closer to the truth in whatever field you are looking for it. There can be no book, holy or otherwise, that is the final arbiter of truth. There is no process, scientific or otherwise, that when run, will reliably result in the truth. I may be really really sure that block 928548 has just been mined. In fact, I may be more sure of that fact than almost any other fact I know, but I'm not 100% sure. Why? Why can't we ever be 100% sure about something? It's because of what we are. I myself am code, running in this computer called a brain. This brain runs what I would call "me", but it is also running a simulation. It is that simulation I interact with. How do you know that there is a keyboard in front of you? You say because you see it and feel it, but think about it. What does that mean? Light bounces off the keyboard, hits your eyes, your eyes convert those photons to electrical impulses, and send those impulses to your brain. Your nerve endings in your finger send electrical impulses to your brain. What does your brain do with all of these electrical impulses? It creates a simulation. Right now, you are in a beautifully rendered, 3D simulation of the world around you. You don't ever directly experience the world around you. You experience the simulation of it in your brain. Understand the difference between the map and the territory—as they say. The actual keyboard in front of me is the territory, but I only ever experience the map of it. I only ever experience the simulation of the keyboard created by my brain. So because you and I are computer code living in a simulation, we can never ever be 100% sure of what is going on in the world around us. To take a trivial example, I could be dreaming right now, and we might be at block 999999. The universe is the territory, and the simulation I live in is the map. But, don't confuse this philosophy with the idea that the truth doesn't exist. Because I can only ever experience the map, doesn't mean that the territory doesn't exist. I strongly believe that the territory exists. I'm pretty darn sure that there are a bunch of atoms in front of me that make up a keyboard. But I'm stuck looking at the simulation of the keyboard. So the territory exists, but we only ever get to read the map, and we can never be 100% sure that our map is entirely correct. There are certainly parts of your map and my map that are correct, but we can never be sure WHICH parts are correct. There is no source of truth I can consult that can conclusively tell me, "You got this part right, but this part is wrong." Once you understand this truth about what you are and what your situation is in the universe, you can get closer to the truth. View quoted note →