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Originally Posted by El Diablo
Alobar,
I've been thinking about your universe created last Thursday theory. While technically it could be true, it's just as likely that we are just some entity's imagination etc.
How do you figure that? In whatever reality it is we are actually in we don't know if its even possible that a reality can exist that is simply a construct of somethings imagination. I imagine lots of stuff, I doubt any of those imagined beings have consciousness. So it either takes some form of super being or for the correct set of laws to be part of the laws of the universe that we currently don't understand. Neither of which may actually be possible in any of the levels of reality of Reality. However...
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While that could certainly be possible, it doesn't coincide with the things we observe in this world, even things as simple as memories of longer ago than that.
So sure, many other theoretical constructs could explain our existence, but it's fairly pointless to consider them when they require us to ignore the reality defined in that construct.
the universe spontaneously being created last thursday in a state that makes it appear as tho it is much older and with people who have memories of Barenstien Bears is entirely consistent with what we know of the laws of the universe in this construct, so this seems much more likely to me than..
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The parallel universe theory, however, is completely consistent with whatever theory you believe re: our existence.
this theory, which may or may not even be possible so I don't see how it can be argued that it is consistent with whatever theory of existence you believe in.
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The only other explanation is that ****loads of people can't keep the difference between E and A straight in their memory, which is far more of a reach than the simple parallel universe theory. Thus, Occam's razor tells us the most likely explanation is indeed parallel universes.
I agree that no matter what theory you ascribe to it is much more likely than millions of people incorrectly remembering a trivial detail of their youth. That is so ludicrous that clearly there is something else going on here, be it the matrix or something as far fetched as people dissolving into a parallel universe whose only difference is a letter on some childrens books.