Ah, yes, Descarte's conundrum. I always like shaving that one with Occam's Razor: either the world is as we perceive it, or we have to posit an external world which contains some intelligence effective enough to create the world we perceive, plus our own world, and somehow integrate them. Least Hypothesis would indicate that we should, indeed, take this world at face value... at least until we have good reason (in the form of convincing evidence) not to.
Least Hypothesis would indicate that we should, indeed, take this world at face value... at least until we have good reason (in the form of convincing evidence) not to.
One problem with that is created by quantum mechanics, which is so weird that Albert Einstein didn't want anything to do with it. We do have convincing evidence that it is in fact a rigorous and accurate description of reality, at least at certain levels of physical reality, but we can't directly perceive the phenomena that are part of it, only indirectly and by inference. That the universe may well be holographic at those same levels of existence is looking more and more likely -- I've seen other articles on it before now -- but what that implies about how our world came into existence is still up in the air and may be for a long, long time. In the case of somebody else making our world, that's reaching for it. There's no evidence of that, and even inference doesn't support it. They need to do a lot more work on this.
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One problem with that is created by quantum mechanics, which is so weird that Albert Einstein didn't want anything to do with it. We do have convincing evidence that it is in fact a rigorous and accurate description of reality, at least at certain levels of physical reality, but we can't directly perceive the phenomena that are part of it, only indirectly and by inference. That the universe may well be holographic at those same levels of existence is looking more and more likely -- I've seen other articles on it before now -- but what that implies about how our world came into existence is still up in the air and may be for a long, long time. In the case of somebody else making our world, that's reaching for it. There's no evidence of that, and even inference doesn't support it. They need to do a lot more work on this.
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