> if everyone is "religious", you've set a very low bar for what qualifies as religious
And if everyone has “beliefs” then you have set a very low bar for what qualifies as belief which makes everyone a believer.
You are playing a silly power game where you dismiss other people’s conceptual schemes so you can peddle your own.
My view of the cosmos is that it is a computer simulation.
It isn’t clearly false. But it is clearly a religion. Even though it is backed up by the fact that all asymmetrical/equational reasoning (all of the Mathematics supporting Physics/Cosmology) is computational.
And if everyone has “beliefs” then you have set a very low bad for what qualifies as belief.
Sure, if you look at what qualifies as a belief, it's pretty random.
My view of the cosmos is that it is a computer simulation.
It seems like the main thing this shares with religion is that it's wholly unverifiable. If you develop it in common with others and perhaps add rituals, you could qualify it along with Pastafarians [1]. But Pastafarian know it's a joke.
I might have some wholly unverifiable beliefs but I don't have a commitment to maintain such beliefs. That's where I'd locate the difference.
You can verify that Physics is captured in Mathematics.
Mathematics is a Turing-recognisable language.
If the universe is Physical then it is computable. This is a trivially true belief (see Church-Turing-Deutsch principle).
You can falsify my belief by producing Physics in language other than Mathematics.
Of course, as an instrumentalist/physicist, I don’t care if my beliefs are “actually true” as long as they work.
And if everyone has “beliefs” then you have set a very low bar for what qualifies as belief which makes everyone a believer.
You are playing a silly power game where you dismiss other people’s conceptual schemes so you can peddle your own.
My view of the cosmos is that it is a computer simulation.
It isn’t clearly false. But it is clearly a religion. Even though it is backed up by the fact that all asymmetrical/equational reasoning (all of the Mathematics supporting Physics/Cosmology) is computational.