Episode #095 ... Are you living in a simulation?

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  leaving a review, helping to keep philosophical conversations like this going between people.

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  Could never do this without you.

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  So something we haven't talked about for quite some time on the show are the questions that naturally arise if, well,

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  if you're the kind of person like me, and you do the sort masochistic things I like to do for fun.

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  You know, I'll wake up in the morning, I'll beat myself with reeds.

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  Sometimes I like to light my torso on fire just to see what it feels like.

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  And after a long day of that, I like to close out my evenings by doing a very similar sort of activity.

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  I like to question the deep philosophical problems at the root of epistemology, you know, all the fun stuff.

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  How do we know what we know?

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  How do we know we know that's what we know?

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  You know, all the really fulfilling questions to ask.

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  But you know, these kinds of questions definitely have their uses.

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  The process of asking these kinds of questions that may at first seem like they're completely pointless,

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  oftentimes lead us to some of the most revolutionary ideas in philosophy.

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  Like what about Descartes?

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  Descartes sitting around one day in his stove,

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  and he's asking himself a question that may seem like it's a complete waste of time.

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