June 7th, 2012, 9:43 pm
It's a bit difficult to respond to this since you seem to be switching your stance. In your first few posts, it appeared that you were criticizing the existence of an external world on philosophical grounds- perhaps the idea of "physical" is meaningless, etc. Now, it appears you are criticizing the external world on more practical grounds- simulation argument, etc. The fact is, if we are in a simulation, then that simulation is at least in a "real physical world". While it is logically possible that we are in a simulation, there is no reason to assume we are until we have proof.