If you're in the cave and pull the lever the trolley kills (an illusion of) five people and you get out of the cave.
If you're not in the cave you just kill five people. Do you pull the lever?
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How do I know that someone isn't going to fully replace the trolley piece by piece after I pull the lever?
Theseus is busy, went to the past to kill his grandfather.
Because reconstructing the trolley requires an infinite number of workers and I heard they were having trouble with their hotel arrangements.
Is it an African or European trolley?
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Wait is the simulation theory just another version of plato's cave?
When you look at the world, you're actually perceiving the pattern of lights and shadows that pass through your iris onto the inside of your cave-like eyeball.
What gnarly-ass cave is the universe itself inside? 🤔
Like, I don't know whether to believe that the universe is all-encompassing or if, it too, is just another layer of a matroska doll of containers.
Maybe I've gone too many years without religion, but sometimes the talk about simulations sounds less crazy than it should.
I guess you could think of the 3D world as the cave and the further dimensions as the next caves.
It's all about the evidence, or what evidence we can detect. Speculation, but our known universe could be just something sparked from an interaction in a much bigger universe, and the only result we can see from that is the leftover Big Bang remnants. Which would also mean our time began with that start, but there was something and somewhen before, just at a different state of being that we can't see or understand.
Wait is this another cave?
Always has been.
HOLLY SHIT! A TIME TRAVELING ASTRONAUT!
how would you know whether you're not in another cave again?
When you find the door that leads here, you're out of the cave. Just walk through until you hit the lobby:
So's your mom
And this is the reason why Christianity kind of resonated with the late antiquity pagans.