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Nowadays there's many believers of simulation theory, which is pretty much magical thinking.



And like religion that belief is based on social memes, not on science.


Right but people are complex beings susceptible to social memes. Science fundamentally is a tool, but so is writing, which was used to establish and disseminate religion (in the beginning was the Word). The bible might contain wisdom and good lessons, but it's value is obfuscated and degraded by fundamentalist fanatics. The same can happen with the products of science.




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